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单词 pallet
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pallet
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Pallet is a busy noun, but it’s mainly a slab or framework of wood used for carrying things. The most common type of pallet is the kind used to move cargo.
After the earthquake in Haiti, hundreds of pallets of food, medicine, and bottles of fresh water were delivered to Port-au-Prince by air. Many pallets are designed with slots at the bottom to accept a forklift's forks. If you're a talented carpenter, you might be able to turn the wood from a used pallet into a table, a chest of drawers, a tree house, or perhaps a little bed to lie down on after all that hard work.
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palate / palette / pallet

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When they get back, they should try to incorporate some of that raw beauty into the Rockies' color palate/palette/pallet.

The students gather palates/palettes/pallets during the week and stockpile them for sledding.

Reports are that the company will search out favorite regional foods to pepper the palate/palette/pallet for fans in Baltimore.

The first sentence refers to the range of colors the Rocky Mountains offer. The correct choice is palette. It can also refer to the board an artist uses to mix paints or the range of tone in music:

A dark chocolate in the shape of an artist's palette, with a relief of paint brushes and paints, is filled with a liquor-flavored butter cream.

Engineer and producer Butler brings a rich palette of sounds and styles, often trading in unabashed synth-based tracks.

The second sentence refers to a platform used for moving things: a pallet. The term can also mean a straw mattress or a small bed:

Paper-based honeycomb pallets extend branding surface on displays

They would be cutting demos and doing sessions until one in the morning, so I'd make a little pallet on the couch and crash and stay there all week.

Our final sentence describes Baltimoreans' preference of flavors in food, their palate. Palate can also mean the roof of one's mouth or the taste of something, such as wine:

They had assumed the receptors would be restricted to the tongue, soft palate, upper oesophagus and epiglottis.

The palate has plum, smoke, a surprising taste of apricot, but it is all wrapped in burnt rubber.

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pallet: pallets
USAGE EXAMPLES
Government officers race around wooden pallets piled high with boxes — counting, weighing, scanning and approving shipments.
Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016)
There are also other kinds of automata, such as arms that carry pallets.
Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016)
Flames tore through a Sherman Oaks pallet yard on Tuesday evening, threatening nearby businesses.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016)
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n a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay
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hand tool
a tool used with workers' hands
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n a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it
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platform
a raised horizontal surface
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1n board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
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palette
board
a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose
2n the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
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palette
ambit, compass, orbit, range, reach, scope
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
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n a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
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mattress
a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
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