different between palletizer vs pallet

English

Etymology

palletize +? -er

Noun

palletizer (plural palletizers)

1. A machine that automatically stacks cases of goods onto a pallet.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/, /?pæl?t/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?pæl?t/
• Rhymes: -æl?t
• Homophones: palate, palette, pallette

Etymology 1

From Middle English palet, from Anglo-Norman palete, from Old Norse pallr. Doublet of palette.

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Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
2. (military) A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment.
3. (military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

Derived terms

• palletainer
• palletizer

Translations

Verb

pallet (third-person singular simple present pallets, present participle palleting, simple past and past participle palleted)

1. (transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

Etymology 2

From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. A straw bed.
2. (by extension) A makeshift bed.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Latin palla (“to cut”), hence “a strip of cloth”.

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. (heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe. Diminutive of pale.

Etymology 4

Noun

pallet (plural pallets)

1. (painting) Archaic form of palette.
   • 1798, Robert Southey, The Pious Painter

     The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"

   • 1860, Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)

     For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure […]

2. A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
3. A potter's wheel.
4. (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
5. (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
6. (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.

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7. (engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
8. (engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

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9. (horology) 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.

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10. (music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
11. (zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
12. A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press
• Notes:

Anagrams

• L-plate, laplet, platel

Dutch

Etymology

From English pallet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l?t/
• Homophone: pellet
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

pallet m (plural pallets, diminutive palletje n)

1. pallet

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pallet.

Noun

pallet m (plural pallet)

1. pallet

Latin

Verb

pallet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of palle?