Ballet vs. Pallet — What's the Difference?

Ballet (French: [balɛ]) is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.

A pallet () (also called a skid) is a flat transport structure, which supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, a pallet jack, a front loader, a jacking device, or an erect crane. A pallet is the structural foundation of a unit load which allows handling and storage efficiencies.

A classical dance form characterized by grace and precision of movement and by elaborate formal gestures, steps, and poses.

A projection on a machine part, such as a pawl for controlling the motion of a ratchet wheel in a watch escapement, that engages the teeth of a ratchet wheel to convert reciprocating motion to rotary motion or vice versa.

A theatrical presentation of group or solo dancing to a musical accompaniment, usually with costume and scenic effects, conveying a story or theme.

A wooden, shovellike potter's tool used for mixing and shaping clay.

A musical composition written or used for this dance form.

A metal tool used for printing on book bindings.

A classical form of dance.

A fine brush used for taking up and applying gold leaf.

A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.

A portable platform used for storing or moving cargo or freight.

The company of persons who perform this dance.

A painter's palette.

(music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.

A narrow hard bed or straw-filled mattress.

A (small) ball i.e. roundel on a coat of arms, called a bezant, plate, etc., according to colour.

Chiefly Southern US A temporary bed made from bedding arranged on the floor, especially for a child.

(figurative) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.

A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.

To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.

A straw bed.

An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

(by extension) A makeshift bed.

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

(heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. pale.

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, - most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers; - also spelled ballett.

(transitive) To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers

A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

Music written for a ballet

Same as Palette.

A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.

An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.

A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.

A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

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.

In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.

One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.

A cup containing three ounces, - formerly used by surgeons.

A low movable platform used for temporary storage of objects so that they can be conveniently moved; it is commonly made of wooden boards, about 4 inches high, and typically has openings in the side into which the blades of a fork-lift truck may be inserted so as to lift and move the pallet and the objects on it.

The range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art

A portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it

A hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay

A mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed

Board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used