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Tray

//tɹeɪ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the female given name Tracy.
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    trouble; annoyance; anger obsolete
  3. 3
    Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”). alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)
  5. 5
    an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food wordnet
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  1. 6
    The items on a full tray. broadly

    "Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another."

  2. 7
    A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.

    "The CD tray will not open."

  3. 8
    A notification area used for icons and alerts. informal

    "[…]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)."

  4. 9
    A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
  5. 10
    The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled. Australia
Verb
  1. 1
    to place (items) on a tray transitive

    "Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up."

  2. 2
    to grieve; to annoy obsolete, transitive
  3. 3
    to betray obsolete, transitive
  4. 4
    to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria. intransitive

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

From Middle English traye, treie, from Old English trega (“misfortune, misery, trouble, grief, pain”), from Proto-Germanic *tregô (“mourning”), from Proto-Indo-European *dregʰ- (“unwilling, sullen, slack”). Cognate with Icelandic tregi (“sorrow, grief”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐍉 (trigō, “grief”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English trayen, treien, from Old English tregian (“to trouble, harass, vex”), from Proto-West Germanic *tregōn, from Proto-Germanic *tregōną (“to become tedious, become lazy, sadden”), from Proto-Indo-European *dregʰ- (“unwilling, sullen, slack”).

Etymology 5

From Middle English trayen, from Old French trair (“to betray”), from Latin tradō (“hand over, betray”).

Etymology 6

Blend of trans + gay.

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