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to palletize

to palletize

6.7
To put goods onto a flat wooden or plastic platform so machines can move them
  • verb
  • /ˈpælɪtaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : palletizar
  • Newcor's seat frame system automates the welding and ejection portions of the process by using welding robots and a modular palletized design.

Examples

  • Gantry and other pick-and-place robots and flexible CIM cells with palletized material handling are also examples of manufacturing automation.

    Academic text (2012)
  • A pressurized cabin with life support is just a payload, like palletized cargo for a freighter.

    Blog text (1)
  • So in manufacturing, often parts are palletized or, you know, arranged resistors come on the tape.

  • Before the robot began palletizing the stacks of tubes, it needed to know just where the edges of the empty pallet lay.

    Academic text (2004)
  • And we store junk tractor implements, extra concrete pots, palletized things like there's some soil back there and fertilizer, that sort of thing.

  • Instead, SPSA has converted a roll-off truck to handle palletized bags and haul a forklift truck to facilitate offloading.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The warehouse workers will palletize the products to prepare them for shipment.

  • Before transportation, they need to palletize the boxes for easier handling.

  • To optimize storage space, we decided to palletize the bulk materials in the warehouse.

Synonyms

to sack
vsto palletize
4 2.0

To put something into a bag for carrying

groups goods on flat handling platforms for easier loading and storage
to containerize
vsto palletize
  • Specialized
1 6.5

To put goods into a container for transport

groups goods on flat handling platforms for easier loading and storage
to parcel
vsto palletize
1 3.5

To wrap something in paper or a box to send

groups goods on flat handling platforms for easier loading and storage
to bale up
vsto palletize
7.2

To press and tie plant material like straw or hay into large tight bundles for storage

groups goods on flat handling platforms rather than compressing them
to unitize
vsto palletize
  • Specialized
7.2

To separate things into single items for handling or shipping

groups multiple items together for collective handling and transport

How Packaged

to containerize
  • Specialized
1 6.5
to palletize
  • Specialized
6.7
to pack
655 1.0
to wrap
729 1.0

Surface Forms

palletize infinitive
palletized past
palletized past participle
palletizing present participle
palletizes third person singular

Morphology

palletize = pallet (transparent) = pallet + ize

Formed by adding the productive verbalizing suffix '-ize' to 'pallet', yielding 'to place on pallets', which is directly derivable from the base noun.

Etymology

Palletize comes from the simple word pallet, a flat wooden platform used for stacking and moving boxes, plus the ending -ize which means 'make' or 'use'. So, to palletize is to put goods onto pallets to make them easier to move and store.