PALLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pallet mean? 

• PALLET (noun)
  The noun PALLET has 5 senses:

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

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

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

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

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

  Familiarity information: PALLET used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

palette; pallet

Hypernyms ("pallet" is a kind of...):

ambit; compass; orbit; range; reach; scope (an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pallet" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pallet" is a kind of...):

hand tool (a tool used with workers' hands)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pallet" is a kind of...):

mattress (a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed)

Sense 5

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

palette; pallet

Hypernyms ("pallet" is a kind of...):

board (a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose)

 Context examples 

There was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a basketful of linen.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He threw himself down upon his pallet and in an instant was fast asleep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a stone-flagged room upon the second floor, with a bed in a recess for him, and two smaller pallets on the other side, on which Aylward and Hordle John were already snoring.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)