Tray

/tɹeɪ/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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.
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.
7. (transitive) to place (items) on a tray
8. (intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

Example Sentences

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

Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

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

The CD tray will not open.

The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.

baking tray

[…]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).

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Word Forms

• trays
• traying
• trayed

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