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tray

Pronunciation: /tɹeɪ/

The English word “tray” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
  2. The items on a full tray.
  3. A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
  4. A notification area used for icons and alerts.
  5. A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
  6. The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
  7. trouble; annoyance; anger
  8. A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)

verb

  1. to place (items) on a tray
  2. to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
  3. to grieve; to annoy
  4. to betray

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…

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