Tray

Etymology
trey: from treg:, trig: ‘wooden board’, from  (cf. Low German undefined: ‘dough trough’, Old Swedish trø: ‘wooden grain measure’), from  (cf. Ancient Greek undefined: ‘tub, vat’, Sanskrit undefined: ‘trough’), from  ‘tree’. More at.

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) A flat carrier for items being transported.
 * Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
 * 1) The items on a full tray.
 * Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1)  A notification area used for icons and alerts.
 * 2) * 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).

Derived terms

 * in-tray
 * meat tray
 * out-tray
 * tray-table
 * TV tray

Translations

 * Afrikaans: skinkbord
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 * Japanese:
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 * Macedonian: послужавник
 * Polish:
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 * Serbian: poslužavnik, služavnik , podnos , podnosak
 * Sicilian: guantera
 * Spanish: bandeja, charola
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: పళ్ళెం (paLLeM), ట్రే (Trae)
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 * Finnish: tarjottimellinen


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 * Macedonian: лента


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Verb

 * 1)  To place items on a tray.
 * Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.
 * 1)  To slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
 * Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.

Anagrams

 * arty, Arty

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