Pallet vs Tote - What's the difference?
pallet | tote |
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.
(painting)
* (Robert Southey)
* 1860 , Chambers's Information for the People (volume 1, page 203)
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.
(engineering) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(engineering) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
(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)
To carry or bear.
*, chapter=8
, title= To add up; to calculate a total.
(British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
*1892 , Banjo Paterson,
*:He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
*:He laid the odds and kept a "tote ", whatever that may be,
As nouns the difference between pallet and tote
is that pallet is a portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage while tote is a bag, specifically a tote bag.As a verb tote is
to carry or bear.pallet
English
(wikipedia pallet)Etymology 1
From (etyl) palet, from (etyl) palete, from (etyl) pallrNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* palletizerEtymology 2
From the (etyl) paillet, from (etyl)Etymology 3
(etyl) palla: to cut; hence a strip of cloth. The diminutive of the pale.Etymology 4
Noun
(en noun)- 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!"
- For example, let a painter's pallet be suspended from the thumb-hole, as in the figure
- (Knight)
- (Knight)
References
* The Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition, Oxford University Press * Notes:Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----tote
English
(wikipedia tote)Etymology 1
Verb
(tot)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.}}
