tray

English Online Dictionary. What means tray‎? What does tray mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹeɪ/, enPR: trā
• Homophones: trey, trait (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1

From Middle English treye, 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.

Noun

tray (plural trays)

1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
2. (by extension) The items on a full tray.

   Synonym: trayful

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

4. (computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
5. (computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
6. (Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.

   Synonym: bed

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)

1. (transitive) to place (items) on a tray

2. (intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

Etymology 2

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”).

Noun

tray (plural trays)

1. (obsolete) trouble; annoyance; anger

Derived terms

• half in tray and teen

Etymology 3

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”).

Verb

tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to grieve; to annoy

Etymology 4

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

Verb

tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to betray [before 16th c.]

Etymology 5

Noun

tray (plural trays)

1. Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”)

Etymology 6

Blend of trans +‎ gay

Noun

tray (plural trays)

1. (LGBTQ slang) A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)

See also

• transbian

Further reading

• tray on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• tray-trip (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• Arty, arty

Kavalan

Noun

tray

1. electric wire; barbed wire

Malay

Etymology

From English try.

Verb

tray

1. (Sanggau) To try.

Synonyms

• cuba (standard)