tray
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[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: trā, IPA: /treɪ/, SAMPA: /treI/
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- Homophones: trait (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -eɪ
[edit] Noun
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tray (plural trays)
- 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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object on which things are carried
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items on a full tray
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in computing
[edit] Verb
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to 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.