tray
Meanings
noun
- A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
- The items on a full tray.
- A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
- A notification area used for icons and alerts.
- A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
- The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
verb
- to place (items) on a tray
- to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
noun
- trouble; annoyance; anger
verb
- to grieve; to annoy
verb
- to betray
noun
- Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”).
noun
- A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)
name
- A diminutive of the female given name Tracy.
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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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