tray

CEFRA1

/tɹeɪ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flat container used for carrying or holding things.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • He made his sister a nice pen tray.

  • Irene Pepperberg holds a round tray in front of a parrot she has named Alex.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The items on a full tray.

  2. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.

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

More examples

In context

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

  • 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.

Synonyms

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The waiter carried a full blank of drinks across the busy restaurant.

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Origin

noun

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.