Definition of TRAY

tray

Plural: trays

Noun

  • A flat, shallow container used for carrying items.
  • an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food
  • A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
  • The items on a full tray.
  • A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
  • A notification area used for icons and alerts.
  • A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
  • The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
  • trouble; annoyance; anger
  • Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”).
  • A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)

Verb

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

Examples

  • baking tray
  • Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.
  • Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
  • I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.
  • Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
  • Placing TRAY on a triple-word score felt like serving up victory on a silver platter.
  • The CD tray will not open.
  • The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.
  • Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.

Origin / 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 (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.

Synonyms

bed, trayful

Scrabble Score: 7

tray: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
tray: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tray: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

tray: valid Words With Friends Word