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We made a studio in Rosie's bedroom using some planks for the floor, bricks we found on the street, and bits of pallet for the walls.
I've delivered a pallet of eggs to Tesco in Cardiff, I've delivered parts to a wind farm.
As the Gazan exporter watches, the invisible Israeli operator shifts the belt backwards, and a pallet of jumbo shrimps falls off the end, spilling them into the dust.
False alarms triggered by anything from a pallet of cat litter to radiation-therapy patients and nuclear-power-plant shipments have slowed research and development on one such network at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, says Simon Labov, a co-ordinator there.
The third, and oddest, leg is transport pallets: this is the humble business of supplying companies with wooden pallet frames on which batches of their products are packed so they can be easily unloaded from lorries by fork-lift trucks.
The story of a young drifter who rebels against a privileged upbringing in Britain and goes away to work in a pallet factory in provincial Sweden in the late 1970s might seem impossibly dull.
I learned how to wheel one of those electric carts around with a pallet filled up to the top, and take those turns, and race with other people".John Kerry reveals that he was once a union member during a summer job between terms at Yale.
At the heart of a mechanical watch is the delicate hairspring, balance-wheel, escapement-wheel and pallet mechanism; in simple terms, these are the elements of the watch that count each second and ensure accuracy.
The result is two sleek metal beams narrow and low enough to glide under a standard EURO pallet.To lift such a pallet , every wheel has a jack.
Retailers did well over the Thanksgiving break, but their customers held off from splurging again until they were tempted back by price-slashing promotions in the week before Christmas.A company that makes a new type of freight pallet from glass fibre and resin composite stacked up one of the most successful IPOs on London's Alternative Investment Market over the past 12 months.
At present, a recorder attached to a pallet of half a dozen boxes takes a reading of the boxes' temperature every hour at a cost of $30-40.By 30-40.Bya Power Paper battery to an equalinkingn temperature sensor, International Power Paperow track the temperature of an individual batterytonuously, for less than $1 pequally
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The word "pallet" functions primarily as a noun , referring to a portable platform used for storing and transporting goods. It can also less commonly function as a noun to describe a makeshift bed. As shown in Ludwig, the term appears in varied contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
