pallet vs tray

pallet

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

  • A straw bed. 

  • A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. 

  • A potter's wheel. 

  • A makeshift bed. 

  • 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. 

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

  • A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. 

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

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

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

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

  • A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. 

  • One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. 

  • A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale. 

verb
  • To load or stack (goods) onto pallets. 

tray

noun
  • The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled. 

  • A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay) 

  • A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging. 

  • The items on a full tray. 

  • A notification area used for icons and alerts. 

  • A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. 

  • A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations. 

verb
  • to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria. 

  • to place (items) on a tray 

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