Rack vs Pallet - What's the difference?
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A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel, etc.
(nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; called also rack block.
A distaff.
A bar with teeth]] on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, [[pinion#Etymology 2, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
* Macaulay
A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and a crossbow.
A pair of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
(billiards, snooker, pool) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
(slang) A woman's breasts.
(climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with 5 or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded. Also rappel rack'', ''abseil rack .
(climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, karabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
A grate on which bacon is laid.
(obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
To place in or hang on a rack.
To torture (someone) on the rack.
* Alexander Pope
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 228:
To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
* Milton
(figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
* Fuller
(billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
(slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
(mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
(nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
* Francis Bacon
* Charles Kingsley
(brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
* Francis Bacon
(of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
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)
As nouns the difference between rack and pallet
is that rack is dress, skirt 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).rack
English
(wikipedia rack)Etymology 1
See Dutch rekkenNoun
(en noun)- During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity.
- I bought a rack of lamb at the butcher's yesterday.
- See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_%28billiards%29]
- I used almost a full rack on the second pitch.
Derived terms
* autorack * bike rack * cheese rack/cheese-rack * gun rack * spice rack * roof rack * toast rackVerb
(en verb)- He was racked and miserably tormented.
- As the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt later recalled, his father, Henry VII's jewel-house keeper Henry Wyatt, had been racked on the orders of Richard III, who had sat there and watched.
- Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair.
- Try what my credit can in Venice do; / That shall be racked even to the uttermost.
- The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants.
- They rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof.
Etymology 2
(etyl)Derived terms
* rack one's brainEtymology 3
Probably from (etyl)Noun
(-)- (Shakespeare)
- The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack , pass without noise.
- And the night rack came rolling up.
Etymology 4
(etyl) rakkenVerb
(en verb)- It is in common practice to draw wine or beer from the lees (which we call racking ), whereby it will clarify much the sooner.
Etymology 5
See , or rock (verb).Verb
(en verb)- (Fuller)
Etymology 6
See wreck.Derived terms
* rack and ruinReferences
Anagrams
*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)