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Pallet vs. Case

Pallet and Case Definitions

Pallet

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.

Case

An instance or occurrence of a particular kind or category
A case of mistaken identity.

Pallet

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

Case

An occurrence of a disease or disorder
A mild case of flu.

Pallet

A metal tool used for printing on book bindings.

Case

A set of circumstances or a state of affairs; a situation
It may rain, in which case the hike will be canceled.
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Pallet

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

Case

Actual fact; reality
We suspected the walls were hollow, and this proved to be the case.

Pallet

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

Case

A question or problem; a matter
It is simply a case of honor.

Pallet

A painter's palette.

Case

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

A narrow hard bed or straw-filled mattress.

Case

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

Pallet

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

Case

The facts or evidence offered in support of a claim.

Pallet

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

Case

A set of reasons or supporting facts; an argument
Presented a good case for changing the law.
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Pallet

A straw bed.

Case

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

Pallet

(by extension) A makeshift bed.

Case

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

Pallet

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

Case

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.

Pallet

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

Case

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.

Pallet

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

Case

A container; a receptacle
A jewelry case.
Meat-filled cases of dough.

Pallet

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

Case

A container with its contents.

Pallet

Same as Palette.

Case

A decorative or protective covering or cover.

Pallet

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

Case

A set or pair
A case of pistols.

Pallet

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

Case

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

Pallet

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

Case

The surface or outer layer of a metal alloy.

Pallet

A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

Case

A shallow compartmented tray for storing type or type matrices.

Pallet

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.

Case

The form of a written, printed, or keyed letter that distinguishes it as being lowercase or uppercase
Typed the password using the wrong case.

Pallet

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

Case

To put into or cover with a case; encase.

Pallet

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

Case

(Slang) To examine carefully, as in planning a crime
Cased the bank before robbing it.

Pallet

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

Case

An actual event, situation, or fact.
For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.
In case of fire, break glass. [sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space]

Pallet

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.

Case

A given condition or state.

Pallet

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

Case

A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
It was one of the detective's easiest cases.
Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.
The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.

Pallet

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

Case

(academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.

Pallet

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

Case

(legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

Pallet

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

Case

(grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.
Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.

Pallet

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

Case

Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.
Latin is a language that employs case.

Case

(medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
There were another five cases reported overnight.

Case

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

Case

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

Case

A box, sheath, or covering generally.
A case for spectacles; the case of a watch

Case

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

Case

An enclosing frame or casing.
A door case; a window case

Case

A suitcase.

Case

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

Case

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

Case

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).

Case

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

Case

(poker slang) Four of a kind.

Case

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

Case

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

Case

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

Case

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

Case

A counterfeit crown five-shilling coin.

Case

(obsolete) to propose hypothetical cases

Case

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

Case

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

Case

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

Case

(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.
He drew the case eight!

Case

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.

Case

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

Case

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

Case

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

Case

A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

Case

Chance; accident; hap; opportunity.
By aventure, or sort, or cas.

Case

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.
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge.
If the case of the man be so with his wife.
And when a lady's in the caseYou know all other things give place.
You think this madness but a common case.
I am in case to justle a constable,

Case

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

Case

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.
Let us consider the reason of the case, for nothing is law that is not reason.
Not one case in the reports of our courts.

Case

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.
Case is properly a falling off from the nominative or first state of word; the name for which, however, is now, by extension of its signification, applied also to the nominative.

Case

To cover or protect with, or as with, a case; to inclose.
The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

Case

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

Case

To propose hypothetical cases.

Case

A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;
The family brought suit against the landlord

Case

An occurrence of something;
It was a case of bad judgment
Another instance occurred yesterday
But there is always the famous example of the Smiths

Case

A special set of circumstances;
In that event, the first possibility is excluded
It may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled

Case

A problem requiring investigation;
Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir

Case

The actual state of things;
That was not the case

Case

A statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument;
He stated his case clearly

Case

A portable container for carrying several objects;
The musicians left their instrument cases backstage

Case

A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation;
The subjects for this investigation were selected randomly
The cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities

Case

A person requiring professional services;
A typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor

Case

The quantity contained in a case

Case

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

Case

A specific state of mind that is temporary;
A case of the jitters

Case

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

Case

The housing or outer covering of something;
The clock has a walnut case

Case

A person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities);
A real character
A strange character
A friendly eccentric
The capable type
A mental case

Case

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

Case

The enclosing frame around a door or window opening;
The casings had rotted away and had to be replaced

Case

Bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow;
The burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase

Case

Look over, usually with the intention to rob;
They men cased the housed

Case

Enclose in, or as if in, a case;
My feet were encased in mud

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