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tray

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4
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/tɹeɪ/

Definition of tray

14 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
    “I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.”
    “Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.”
    “Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.”
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noun

  1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
    “I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.”
    “Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.”
    “Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.”
  2. (broadly)The items on a full tray.
    “Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.”
  3. A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
    “The CD tray will not open.”
    “The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.”
    “baking tray”
  4. (informal)A notification area used for icons and alerts.
    “[…]some developers try to use it that way for some reason (some applications inexplicably minimize to the tray rather than to the taskbar as they should).”
  5. A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
  6. (Australia)The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
  7. (obsolete)trouble; annoyance; anger
  8. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”).
  9. A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)

verb

  1. (transitive)to place (items) on a tray
    “Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.”
  2. (intransitive)to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
    “Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.”
  3. (obsolete, transitive)to grieve; to annoy
  4. (obsolete, transitive)to betray

name

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Tracy.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English trey, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek δροίτη (droítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.

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