Pallet vs Carton - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between carton and pallet is that carton is an inexpensive, disposable box-like creation fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material. It is designed to hold things for a short period of time and be discarded or recycled after use while pallet is a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
pallet Etymology 1
From (etyl) palet, from (etyl) palete, from (etyl) pallr
Noun
( en noun)
a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
(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[Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006). ].
(military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft[. ]
Derived terms
* palletizer
Etymology 2
From the (etyl) paillet, from (etyl)
Noun
( en noun)
A straw bed.
(By extension from above) A makeshift bed.
Etymology 3
(etyl) palla: to cut; hence a strip of cloth. The diminutive of the pale.
Noun
( en noun)
(heraldiccharge) A narrow vertical strip.
Etymology 4
Noun
( en noun)
(painting)
* (Robert Southey)
- The Old Dragon fled when the wonder he spied, / And cursed his own fruitless endeavor; / While the Painter call'd after his rage to deride, / Shook his pallet and brushes in triumph, and cried, / "I'll paint thee more ugly than ever!"
* 1860 , Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)
- For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure
A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
A potter's wheel.
(gilding) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(gilding) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
(brickmaking) A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- (Knight)
(engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- (Knight)
(horology) 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.
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(music) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
(zoology) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the .
A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
( Webster 1913)
References
* The Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition, Oxford University Press
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carton Noun
( en noun)
An inexpensive, disposable box-like creation fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material. It is designed to hold things for a short period of time and be discarded or recycled after use.
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