Pallet vs. Case

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.

An instance or occurrence of a particular kind or category

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

An occurrence of a disease or disorder

A metal tool used for printing on book bindings.

A set of circumstances or a state of affairs; a situation

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

Actual fact; reality

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

A question or problem; a matter

A painter's palette.

A situation that requires investigation, especially by a formal or official body.

A narrow hard bed or straw-filled mattress.

An action or a suit or just grounds for an action.

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

The facts or evidence offered in support of a claim.

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

A set of reasons or supporting facts; an argument

A straw bed.

A person being assisted, treated, or studied, as by a physician, lawyer, or social worker.

(by extension) A makeshift bed.

(Informal) A peculiar or eccentric person; a character.

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

In traditional grammar, a distinct form of a noun, pronoun, or modifier that is used to express one or more particular syntactic relationships to other words in a sentence.

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

Case In some varieties of generative grammar, the thematic or semantic role of a noun phrase as represented abstractly but not necessarily indicated overtly in surface structure. In such frameworks, nouns in English have Case even in the absence of inflectional case endings.

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

A container; a receptacle

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

A container with its contents.

Same as Palette.

A decorative or protective covering or cover.

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 set or pair

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

The frame or framework of a window, door, or stairway.

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

The surface or outer layer of a metal alloy.

A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

A shallow compartmented tray for storing type or type matrices.

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.

The form of a written, printed, or keyed letter that distinguishes it as being lowercase or uppercase

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

To put into or cover with a case; encase.

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

(Slang) To examine carefully, as in planning a crime

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

An actual event, situation, or fact.

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.

A given condition or state.

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

A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.

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

(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.

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

(legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

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

(grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.

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

Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.

(medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

(programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.

A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

A box, sheath, or covering generally.

A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.

An enclosing frame or casing.

A suitcase.

A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.

The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.

A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).

The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.

(poker slang) Four of a kind.

(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.

(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.

A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.

A counterfeit crown five-shilling coin.

(obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases

(transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.

(transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.

To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box; as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.

A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type.

An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window case.

A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.

That which befalls, comes, or happens; an event; an instance; a circumstance, or all the circumstances; condition; state of things; affair; as, a strange case; a case of injustice; the case of the Indian tribes.

A patient under treatment; an instance of sickness or injury; as, ten cases of fever; also, the history of a disease or injury.

The matters of fact or conditions involved in a suit, as distinguished from the questions of law; a suit or action at law; a cause.

One of the forms, or the inflections or changes of form, of a noun, pronoun, or adjective, which indicate its relation to other words, and in the aggregate constitute its declension; the relation which a noun or pronoun sustains to some other word.

To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.

To strip the skin from; as, to case a box.

To propose hypothetical cases.

A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;

An occurrence of something;

A special set of circumstances;

A problem requiring investigation;

The actual state of things;

A statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument;

A portable container for carrying several objects;

A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation;

A person requiring professional services;

The quantity contained in a case

A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home

A specific state of mind that is temporary;

Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence

The housing or outer covering of something;

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);

An enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part

The enclosing frame around a door or window opening;

Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow;

Look over, usually with the intention to rob;

Enclose in, or as if in, a case;