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# pallet

noun (a pallet, pallets)

«pallet» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A flat wooden or plastic platform on which goods are stacked so that a forklift truck can lift and move them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#m1)
2. A simple straw bed or thin mattress on the floor (old use, in stories). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#m2)
3. A flat wooden tool used by potters (less common). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and shops, goods arrive on pallets in lorries and warehouses. People also make garden furniture out of old pallets. In history stories, a poor person or prisoner sleeps on a pallet of straw.

### Examples

- The forklift lifted a pallet of bricks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#x1)
- The lorry was full of pallets of tinned beans. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#x2)
- We built a bug hotel from an old pallet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#x3)
- The prisoner slept on a pallet of straw. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#x4)
- Each pallet holds 40 boxes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#x5)
- Mind your fingers near the wooden pallets. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/#x6)

### Note

Countable: pallet, pallets. Homophones: palette (paints) and palate (roof of the mouth). In maths, pallets are about multiplication: if each pallet holds 40 boxes, 6 pallets hold 6 x 40 = 240 boxes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «pallet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pallet/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«pallet» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/pallet.html) on Mova free.