tray

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/tɹeɪ/

noun 8verb 4name 1

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(noun.)

ADJ

laden, loaded

The waiter carefully carried a laden tray of drinks to our table.

breakfast, coffee, drinks, hospitality, supper, tea

The hotel staff brought a coffee tray to our room early this morning.

VERB + TRAY

bear, carry | pick up

balance

The waiter carefully balanced a heavy tray of drinks while walking through the crowded restaurant.

place, put down

PREP

on a/the ~

The doctor placed the medical instruments on the tray before beginning the examination.

~ of

She carried a tray of freshly baked cookies into the living room for the guests.

Definitions

noun

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.

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.

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).

A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.

verb

to place (items) on a tray

Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.

to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.

noun

trouble; annoyance; anger

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Example Bank

I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.

Wiktionary

Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.

Wiktionary

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

Wiktionary

Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.

Wiktionary

Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.

Wiktionary

On the tray are five objects - three of them are keys.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, tray is marked as informal, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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