tray
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: trā, IPA: /treɪ/, SAMPA: /treI/
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Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: trait (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -eɪ
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle English traye, treie, from Old English trega (“misfortune, misery, trouble, grief, pain”), from Proto-Germanic *tregô, *mourning, from Proto-Indo-European *dregʰ- (“unwilling, sullen, slack”). Cognate with Icelandic tregi (“sorrow, grief”), Gothic (trigo, “grief”).
[edit] Noun
tray (plural trays)
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Middle English trayen, treien, from Old English tregian (“to trouble, harass, vex”), from Proto-Germanic *tregōnan (“to become tedious, become lazy, sadden”), from Proto-Indo-European *dregʰ- (“unwilling, sullen, slack”).
[edit] Verb
tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To grieve; annoy.
[edit] Etymology 3
From Middle English treye, from Old English trēġ, trīġ, from Proto-Germanic *traujan (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drAuk-, *drAuḱ- (“a kind of vessel”), from *dóru (“tree”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek (drouítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit (droṇa, “trough”). More at tree.
[edit] Noun
- A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, rigid object upon which things are carried.
- I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.
- A flat carrier for items being transported.
- Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
- The items on a full tray.
- Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
- 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.
- (computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
- 2007, Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista Secrets
- ...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).
- 2007, Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista Secrets
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[edit] Verb
tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)
- (transitive) To place items on a tray.
- Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.
- (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.
[edit] Etymology 4
From Middle English trayen, from Old French trair (“to betray”), from Latin tradō (“hand over, betray”). More at betray.
[edit] Verb
tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To betray.
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