(n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alton Sterling’s family give emotional statement after police killing Someone set up a makeshift podium in the parking lot and a public address system.
(3) When they reached the car, Amburn was heaved into the boot and driven all the way back to Roland's house by the Chiemsee lake, near the Austrian border, where he was kept locked in a makeshift basement cell for four days.
(4) Two had died before they were rescued, and their bodies lay a few steps down the hall in the hospital chapel, now a makeshift morgue.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Children play at a makeshift refugee camp in the village of Idomeni, northern Greece.
(6) Kondoli was pushing a makeshift wooden cart with the family's bedding and pots and pans, but it looked as if it was about to fall apart.
(7) The protesters have dug in at the square, with a hardcore of several hundred setting up a makeshift camp with tents, log fires and soup kitchens, while a large stage blasts pop music and speeches by opposition leaders.
(8) In the small, echoing gym of a primary school, Rodríguez and García Sánchez took turns at a makeshift podium, outlining the key planks of the party’s platform, detailing agrarian reform to a moratorium on evictions.
(9) In the image above, Syrian refugee children attend a class at a makeshift school near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, in August 2015.
(10) A makeshift field hospital in the square was attacked with teargas.
(11) Looking pale and drawn, he says: “We are trying to find out where he is, which hospital, but everything is very difficult here … I am trying, but it is difficult.” Hussain, speaking outside the makeshift field hospital run by medical charity Médicins du Monde, says his cousin Sadiq suffered serious head and chest injuries as the pair clung on to a moving train in the early hours of the morning.
(12) The 18-year-old Sheyi Ojo became the youngest goalscorer in Liverpool’s FA Cup history and João Carlos Teixeira was also on the scoresheet in the 3-0 victory as Klopp’s makeshift side secured a fourth-round tie at home to West Ham United.
(13) Vollmer died two weeks ago when a makeshift bomb exploded near his vehicle in Salman Pak, Iraq.
(14) Over the last 30 years, a dense canopy of trees has grown to shade its ramshackle cluster of caravans, old buses, huts and makeshift toilets, many decorated with peace slogans and abstract murals.
(15) Those that do make it to makeshift camps in the town of Cox’s Bazaar are facing shortages of food and water, and some are suffering from severe malnutrition.
(16) Most ship-breaking workers are migrants from the north who rent rooms in the warren of makeshift shanties that totter over the water’s edge.
(17) It was originally three bedrooms, but after we makeshifted it – changing the closets into rooms and stuff like that – we ended up with about seven "bedrooms".
(18) At least 2 million people have been displaced within Syria, many sheltering in bombed-out buildings or makeshift camps.
(19) Outside the prefabricated hut that serves as his makeshift office stand crates containing those treasured bottles of soy sauce, including one from a limited edition to mark the firm's bicentenary in 2007.
(20) Morsi had decamped from Itahadiya palace, the traditional seat of the president, which is now surrounded by makeshift concrete walls in anticipation of Sunday's protests.
Pallet
Definition:
(n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
(n.) Same as Palette.
(n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms.
(n.) A potter's wheel.
(n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
(n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
(n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
(n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
(n.) 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.
(n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
(n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
(n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons.
Example Sentences:
(1) During Saturday’s search activities the crew of a civil aircraft sent out by Amsa reported sighting a number of small objects with the naked eye, including a wooden pallet, within a radius of five kilometres,” the statement said.
(2) Recycled plastic pellets like these mitigate the need for virgin plastics, and can be used to make ashtrays or industrial products such as shipping pallets.
(3) "These photos included picture of the individuals, pallets of unprinted paper and seized copies of the final printed material or the printed document; and a high resolution photo of the printed material itself.
(4) The illness behavior of three cohorts of workers at three levels of risk--workers removed from the chemical plant to a pallet plant (PP) because their screening results indicated liver abnormalities; workers who had some positive test results (TP); and workers whose test results were negative (TN)--was studied before (time 1) and after (time 2) the angiosarcoma crisis.
(5) He referred to a provision in the enterprise agreement that says: “Employees who are forklift drivers and who are stacking pallets of bright cans shall be entitled to an allowance of 50 cents per hour.” Abetz said the “shiny tin allowance” was removed in 1991 when SPC Ardmona was in financial strife.
(6) We handed over our credit card details and three days later a £422 Hunter Hawk (4 kilowatt) model arrived on a pallet (since burned) plus the associated flue.
(7) The Pentagon said the pallet of weapons was one of 28 dropped, not six as previously reported.
(8) Workers in white hard hats and gloves moved wooden pallets and other materials into the middle of an intersection to be taken away in a truck that pulled up.
(9) Quentin Willson Motoring journalist and FairFuelUK campaigner, Angus MacNeil MP SNP's Westminster spokesperson on transport, Geoff Dunning Chief executive, Road Haulage Association, Jason McCartney MP Conservative member of transport select committee, Naomi Long MP Deputy leader, Alliance party of Northern Ireland, Nigel Dodds MP Deputy leader, Democratic Unionist party, Paul Sanders Chairman, Association of Pallet Networks, Pete Williams Head of external affairs, RAC, Rob Flello MP Labour, Rob Shuttleworth Chief executive, UKLPG, Sammy Wilson MP DUP parliamentary spokesman on economic and finance matters, Tessa Munt MP Liberal Democrat, PPS to the secretary of state for business, innovation and skills, Theo de Pencier Chief executive, Freight Transport Association, Howard Cox FairFuelUK campaign founder
(10) Piles of wooden pallets, a generator and other equipment from a dismantled pro-Russia tent camp quickly began to burn.
(11) We can also confirm that MH370 was carrying wooden pallets.
(12) Apples are now bagged by robots and loaded on to pallets ready to be transported to retailers.
(13) In a briefing on Sunday, Mike Barton, Amsa's rescue coordination centre chief, said: “The use of wooden pallets is quite common in the industry … They're usually packed into another container, which is loaded in the belly of the aircraft.” Barton also said that the possible debris seen by the search aircraft also included "strapping belts of different lengths".
(14) The collection is so vast that it has to be housed in several large warehouses, in boxes and crates stacked high on pallets and covered in polythene or plastic sheeting.
(15) It uses pallets dropped by parachute and guided by GPS navigation and a rudder.
(16) Their pesticides, boxes and shipping pallets are all bought from Israel.
(17) Late on Saturday, Kasich ordered the state’s National Guard to deliver water purification systems, pallets of bottled water and ready-to-eat meals to residents in several counties.
(18) Photograph: Gary Calton for Observer Food Monthly Killick shows me round the warehouse, stacked with pallets of food liberated from supermarkets and producers.
(19) Two 75mm shells from the first world war, two empty safes, gold pieces, a pallet truck, two wheelchairs and a toilet bowl.
(20) But sitting somewhat awkwardly among the pallets and forklift trucks of the children’s furniture factory, Clinton at times looked more like a shopper in Ikea than a factory worker and seemed to struggle to stretch her answers out to fill the time allotted.