1
: a straw-filled tick or mattress
2
: a small, hard, or temporary bed
1
: a wooden flat-bladed instrument
2
: a lever or surface in a timepiece that receives an impulse from the escapement wheel and imparts motion to a balance or pendulum
3
: a portable platform for handling, storing, or moving materials and packages (as in warehouses, factories, or vehicles)
Examples of pallet in a Sentence
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Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Police tore apart a fortified encampment’s barricade of plywood, pallets, metal fences and dumpsters, then pulled down canopies and tents.
—Julie Watson, Fortune, 3 May 2024
In the back corner are pallets of FPV drones waiting to be unloaded.
—Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
The encampment built Tuesday afternoon featured a dozen canopy tents enclosed in a circle and a makeshift barrier of rope, tables, sheets of metal and wood pallets.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
Counter-protesters then tried to pull down the parade barricades, plywood and wooden pallets surrounding the encampment.
—Mercury News Staff and Wire Reports, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
The pallets will be loaded onto trucks, which will be loaded onto smaller ships that will travel to a metal, floating, two-lane causeway.
—Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
An external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries was released from the International Space Station, in orbit 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2021.NASA
Low-Earth orbit space debris has been a problem since the first satellite launch in 1957.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
The agency confirmed Monday that the 1.6-pound object was debris from a cargo pallet that had been intentionally released from the space station three years ago.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024
Noun
In a typical vault in the cash management business, a client’s money is sealed in protective plastic wrapping, placed on pallets and segregated from others’ funds, said Jeffrey Zwirn, a longtime security consultant.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Police tore apart a fortified encampment’s barricade of plywood, pallets, metal fences and dumpsters, then pulled down canopies and tents.
—Julie Watson, Fortune, 3 May 2024
In the back corner are pallets of FPV drones waiting to be unloaded.
—Justin Ling, WIRED, 2 May 2024
The encampment built Tuesday afternoon featured a dozen canopy tents enclosed in a circle and a makeshift barrier of rope, tables, sheets of metal and wood pallets.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
Counter-protesters then tried to pull down the parade barricades, plywood and wooden pallets surrounding the encampment.
—Mercury News Staff and Wire Reports, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
The pallets will be loaded onto trucks, which will be loaded onto smaller ships that will travel to a metal, floating, two-lane causeway.
—Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
An external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries was released from the International Space Station, in orbit 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2021.NASA
Low-Earth orbit space debris has been a problem since the first satellite launch in 1957.
—Chad De Guzman, TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
The agency confirmed Monday that the 1.6-pound object was debris from a cargo pallet that had been intentionally released from the space station three years ago.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Pallet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallet. Accessed 16 May. 2024.
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