Definition of Pallet

1. Noun. The range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art.

Exact synonyms: Palette
Generic synonyms: Ambit, Compass, Orbit, Range, Reach, Scope

2. Noun. A portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it.
Generic synonyms: Platform

3. Noun. A hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay.
Generic synonyms: Hand Tool

4. Noun. A mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed.
Generic synonyms: Mattress

5. Noun. Board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used.
Exact synonyms: Palette
Generic synonyms: Board

Definition of Pallet

1. n. A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

2. n. A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

3. n. Same as Palette.

Definition of Pallet

1. to place on platforms for storage or moving [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Pallet

1. 1. Same as Palette. 2. A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc, for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. A potter's wheel. 3. An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. 4. A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. 5. A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. 6. One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. 7. In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. 8. One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. 9. A cup containing three ounces, ormerly used by surgeons. Origin: F. Palette: af. It. Paletta; prop. And orig, a fire shovel, dim. Of L. Pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a shovel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pallet

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Pallas
Pallas's cat
pallas's sandgrouse
pallasite
Pallas Athena
Pallas Athene
pallbearer
pallbearers
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pallescense
pallesthesia
pallesthetic
pallesthetic sensibility
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