English
tray
Pronunciation Noun

tray (plural trays)

  1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
    I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.
  2. A flat carrier for items being transported.
    Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
  3. The items on a full tray.
    Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
  4. A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
    The CD tray will not open.
    The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.
  5. (computing, graphical user interface, informal)  A notification area used for icons and alerts.
    • 2007, Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista Secrets
      […] 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).
  6. (computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
  7. (Australia) (pickup) [[truck bed]]
    Synonyms: bed
Translations Translations
  • Portuguese: bandeja
  • Russian: лото́к
Translations Verb

tray (trays, present participle traying; past and past participle trayed)

  1. (transitive) to place (items) on a tray
    Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.
  2. (intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
    Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.
Noun

tray (plural trays)

  1. (obsolete) trouble; annoyance; anger
Verb

tray (trays, present participle traying; past and past participle trayed)

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

tray (trays, present participle traying; past and past participle trayed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) to betray
Noun

tray (plural trays)

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


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