Pallet vs. Case

Pallet vs. Case — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Pallet and Case

Palletnoun

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

Casenoun

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]

Palletnoun

(military) A flat base for combining stores or carrying a single item to form a unit load for handling, transportation, and storage by materials handling equipment.

Casenoun

A given condition or state.

Palletnoun

(military) (DOD only) 463L pallet – An 88” x 108” aluminum flat base used to facilitate the upload and download of aircraft.

Casenoun

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.
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Palletnoun

A straw bed.

Casenoun

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

The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.

Palletnoun

(by extension) A makeshift bed.

Casenoun

(legal) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

Palletnoun

(heraldry) A narrow vertical stripe.

Casenoun

(grammar) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.

The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
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Palletverb

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

Casenoun

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.

Palletnoun

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

Casenoun

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

There were another five cases reported overnight.

Palletnoun

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

Casenoun

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

Palletnoun

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

Casenoun

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

Palletnoun

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

Casenoun

A box, sheath, or covering generally.

a case for spectacles; the case of a watch

Palletnoun

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

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

An enclosing frame or casing.

a door case; a window case

Casenoun

A suitcase.

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

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).

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

(poker slang) Four of a kind.

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

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

Caseverb

(obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.

Caseverb

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

Caseverb

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

Caseverb

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

Caseadjective

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

He drew the case eight!

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

an occurrence of something;

it was a case of bad judgmentanother instance occurred yesterdaybut there is always the famous example of the Smiths

Casenoun

a special set of circumstances;

in that event, the first possibility is excludedit may rain in which case the picnic will be canceled

Casenoun

a problem requiring investigation;

Perry Mason solved the case of the missing heir

Casenoun

the actual state of things;

that was not the case

Casenoun

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

he stated his case clearly

Casenoun

a portable container for carrying several objects;

the musicians left their instrument cases backstage

Casenoun

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 randomlythe cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities

Casenoun

a person requiring professional services;

a typical case was the suburban housewife described by a marriage counselor

Casenoun

the quantity contained in a case

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

a specific state of mind that is temporary;

a case of the jitters

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

the housing or outer covering of something;

the clock has a walnut case

Casenoun

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

a real charactera strange charactera friendly eccentricthe capable typea mental case

Casenoun

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

Casenoun

the enclosing frame around a door or window opening;

the casings had rotted away and had to be replaced

Casenoun

bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow;

the burglar carried his loot in a pillowcase

Caseverb

look over, usually with the intention to rob;

They men cased the housed

Caseverb

enclose in, or as if in, a case;

my feet were encased in mud