Palate vs. Pallet

Palatenoun

(anatomy) The roof of the mouth; the uraniscus.

Palatenoun

The sense of taste.

Palatenoun

(figuratively) relish; taste; liking (from the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste)

Palatenoun

(figuratively) Mental relish; intellectual taste.

Palatenoun

(botany) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

Palateverb

To relish; to find palatable.

Palatenoun

The roof of the mouth.

Palatenoun

Relish; taste; liking; - a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

Palatenoun

Mental relish; intellectual taste.

Palatenoun

A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

Palateverb

To perceive by the taste.

Palatenoun

the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities

Palatenoun

the roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.

Palatenoun

a person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavours

Palatenoun

the flavour of wine or beer

Palate

The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals. It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.

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.