noun Download 🔗Share Paleness; pallor. Examples : "The patient's extreme pallets made the doctor concerned. " appearance body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A wooden stake; a picket. Examples : "The old wooden fence was made of rough pallets nailed together, creating a simple barrier around the garden. " material item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Fence made from wooden stake; palisade. Examples : "The chickens were kept safe within the pallets surrounding their coop. " architecture material structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of). Examples : "The teacher set clear pallets for the project, limiting the scope to only the assigned chapters. " area range Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale. Examples : "His drunken outburst at the dinner party was considered beyond the pale by everyone present. " moral philosophy character value society culture Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A vertical band down the middle of a shield. Examples : "The knight's shield featured silver pallets down the center, dividing the blue field. " heraldry style Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction. Examples : "Example Sentence: "Each security guard was assigned a specific pallets of the factory to patrol every night." " area politics government military state geography Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority. Examples : "The principal's pallets in school include student discipline and teacher evaluations. " area government politics law Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A cheese scoop. Examples : "My aunt uses a special cheese pallet to scoop the feta cheese for her salad. " utensil food Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. Examples : "The carpenters used pallets to hold the heavy beam in place while they bolted it to the frame of the new house. " material building technical structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours. Examples : "The artist carefully arranged dabs of crimson, ochre, and cobalt on their pallets before starting the landscape painting. " art utensil Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work. Examples : "The artist's pallets shifted from bright and cheerful in her early work to muted and somber in her later paintings, reflecting her changing emotions. " art color Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc. Examples : "The graphics program offered several pallets: one for choosing colors, another for selecting brush sizes, and a third for adding special effects. " art computing color style Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows. Examples : "While not an everyday topic, to accurately depict the definition, the sentence would need to be about armor. Here's a simple example: "The knight's pallets, protecting his shoulders, were intricately engraved with a dragon." " wear military body Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A plate against which a person presses their breast to give force to a hand-operated drill. Examples : "While using the hand drill, she leaned firmly against the pallets to keep the drill steady and apply enough pressure. " machine work Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage. Examples : "The workers used a forklift to move the pallets of boxes into the warehouse. " material industry business vehicle item technology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The grocery store worker used a forklift to move the stacks of canned goods that were loaded on pallets. " material item business industry technical work machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft. Examples : "The soldiers secured the heavy boxes onto the pallets before loading them onto the transport plane. " military technical vehicle machine item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A straw bed. Examples : "In the old barn, the farm animals slept comfortably on their pallets of straw. " material item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (by extension) A makeshift bed. Examples : "After the power outage, the family made pallets on the living room floor with blankets and pillows so they could all sleep together. " item thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. Examples : "The potter used wooden pallets to carefully shape and smooth the clay pots. " utensil material art Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A potter's wheel. Examples : "The potter skillfully shaped the clay on the pallets. " art utensil machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. Examples : "The gilder carefully picked up the delicate gold leaf with the pallets and gently pressed it onto the picture frame. " art utensil Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. Examples : "The bookbinder carefully selected his pallets, each a different width, to apply the gold leaf precisely over the raised bands on the spine of the leather-bound volume. " art utensil writing material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack. Examples : "The brickmaker carefully placed the wet, newly-formed brick onto one of the wooden pallets before carrying it to the drying rack. " material building industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. Examples : "The intricate clock uses tiny pallets to catch and release the gears, ensuring accurate timekeeping. " machine technical part device Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. Examples : "While examining the old chain pump in the abandoned well, we noticed that several pallets were missing, explaining why it couldn't draw water. " machine part technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The watchmaker carefully adjusted the pallets inside the antique watch to ensure the balance wheel moved smoothly and kept accurate time. " device machine time part technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. Examples : "The organist adjusted the pallets to ensure each pipe received the correct amount of air. " organ music technical machine part Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo. Examples : "When the marine biologist carefully examined the shipworm, she noted the intricate structure of its pallets, which protect its delicate siphon tubes. " animal anatomy biology ocean part Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons. Examples : "The surgeon carefully arranged his instruments, including several pallets filled with antiseptic solution, on the sterile tray. " medicine utensil Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading