Litter vs Pallet - What's the difference?

Litter is a synonym of pallet.

As nouns the difference between litter and pallet

is that litter is (countable) a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol 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 or pallet can be a straw bed or pallet can be (heraldiccharge) a narrow vertical strip or pallet can be (painting).

As a verb litter

is to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

litter

English

Noun

(wikipedia litter)

(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

* Shakespeare

There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.

(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

* D. Estrange

A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

* Jonathan Swift

Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

A covering of straw for plants.

* Evelyn

Take off the litter from your kernel beds.

Synonyms

* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet * (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk

Derived terms

* cat litter * litter bin * litter bug, litterbug * litter frog

Verb

(en verb)

To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .

To strew with scattered articles.

* Jonathan Swift

the room with volumes littered round

To give birth to, used of animals.

* Sir Thomas Browne

We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.

* Shakespeare

The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.

To produce a litter of young.

* Macaulay

A desert where the she-wolf still littered .

To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

* Bishop Hacke

Tell them how they litter their jades.

* Dryden

For his ease, well littered was the floor.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

* Habington

The inn where he and his horse littered .

Derived terms

* litterer

Anagrams

* ---- ==Jèrriais==

Verb

(roa-jer-verb)

to wrestle

Derived terms

pallet

English

(wikipedia 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 equipmentJoint 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.

(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 * Notes:

Anagrams

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