Tray

Quick meaning: Tray is a noun meaning A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (by extension) The items on a full tray.
2. A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
3. (computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
4. (computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
5. (Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
6. (transitive) to place (items) on a tray
7. (intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

Example Sentences

The CD tray will not open.

Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.

I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.

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

Word Forms

• trays
• traying
• trayed

Synonyms for tray

Depending on context, synonyms include trayful, bed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include toilet, platter, hopper, plate, mower, drawer.

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