Palate vs. Pallet — What's the Difference?

The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals. It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.

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.

The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.

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 person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavours

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

The roof of the mouth in vertebrates having a complete or partial separation of the oral and nasal cavities and consisting of the hard palate and the soft palate.

A metal tool used for printing on book bindings.

(Botany) The projecting part on the lower lip of a bilabiate corolla that closes the throat, as in a snapdragon.

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

The sense of taste

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

(anatomy) The roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.

A painter's palette.

(zoology) A part associated with the mouth of certain invertebrates, somewhat analagous to the palate of vertebrates.

A narrow hard bed or straw-filled mattress.

The hypopharynx of an insect.

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

(botany) A projection in the throat of certain bilabiate flowers as the snapdragon.

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

The palate of an animal, as an item of food.

A straw bed.

(figuratively) A person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavors.

(by extension) A makeshift bed.

(figuratively) Mental relish; a liking or affinity for something.

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

Taste or flavour, especially with reference to wine or other alcoholic drinks.

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

To relish; to find palatable.

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

The roof of the mouth.

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

Relish; taste; liking; - a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.

Same as Palette.

Mental relish; intellectual taste.

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

A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

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

To perceive by the taste.

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

The upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities

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