Ballet vs. Pallet

Balletnoun

A classical form of dance.

Balletnoun

A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.

Balletnoun

The company of persons who perform this dance.

Balletnoun

(music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.

Balletnoun

(heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.

Balletverb

To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.

Balletnoun

An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

Balletnoun

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

Balletnoun

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, - most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers; - also spelled ballett.

Balletnoun

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

Balletnoun

a theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers

Balletnoun

music written for a ballet

Ballet

Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.

Palletnoun

A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

Palletnoun

(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.

Palletnoun

(military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

Palletnoun

A straw bed.

Palletnoun

(by extension) A makeshift bed.

Palletnoun

(heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe.

Palletverb

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

Palletnoun

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

Palletnoun

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

Palletnoun

Same as Palette.

Palletnoun

A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.

Palletnoun

An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

Palletnoun

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.

Palletnoun

A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

Palletnoun

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.

Palletnoun

In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

Palletnoun

One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.

Palletnoun

A cup containing three ounces, - formerly used by surgeons.

Palletnoun

A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it.

Palletnoun

the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art

Palletnoun

a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it

Palletnoun

a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay

Palletnoun

a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed

Palletnoun

board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used

Pallet

A pallet () (also called a skid) is a flat transport structure, which supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, a pallet jack, a front loader, a jacking device, or an erect crane. A pallet is the structural foundation of a unit load which allows handling and storage efficiencies.