Meaning

8 senses
  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.

    Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.

    Tablett

    подно́сpodnós, лото́кlotók, поддо́нpoddón

    підно́сpidnós, та́цяtácja

  2. (broadly)The items on a full tray.

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

    Tablettladung

  3. 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.

    Schublade, Fach

  4. (informal)A notification area used for icons and alerts.

    Leiste

    трейtrɛj

  5. 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. A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)

  8. (obsolete)Trouble; annoyance; anger

More definitions
  • an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food

Examples

111 sentences
  1. Where should I put the tray?

    ruГде мне поставить поднос?

    deWo soll das Tablett hin?

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  2. Where should I put my tray?

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  3. Tom put the tray on the table.

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  4. She set the tray down on the table.

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  5. I set the tray down on the table.

    ruЯ поставил поднос на стол.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
object on which things are carried:
Русский
By meaning 2
object on which things are carried:
notification area in a computer's graphical user interface:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
object on which things are carried:
items on a full tray:
component of a device:
notification area in a computer's graphical user interface:

Origin

From Middle English trey, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-W

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.

From Middle English traye, treie, from Old English trega (“misfortune, misery, trouble, grief, pain”), from Proto-Germanic *tregô (“mourning”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreǵʰ- (“unwilling, sullen, slack”). Cognate with Icelandic tregi (“sorrow, grief”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐍉 (trigō, “grief”).

Blend of trans + gay.

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