tray
/tɹeɪ/
tray noun: a small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. Also the alternative form of trey.
Noun (1)
tray (plural trays)
- 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.
- The items on a full tray.
- Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
- Synonyms:
- trayful
- 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.
- A notification area used for icons and alerts.
- […]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).2007, Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista Secrets
- A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
- The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.
- Synonyms:
- bed
Verb (1)
tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)
Noun (2)
tray (plural trays)
Verb (2)
tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)
Verb (3)
tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)
- to betray
Noun (3)
tray (plural trays)
- A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)
Proper noun capitalized: Tray
Tray
- A diminutive of the female given name Tracy.
Also used as
tray is also the alternative form of trey.
tray meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
tray in Hindi
- object on which things are carried
- ट्रे ṭre, तश्तरी taśtarī, थाल thāl
tray in Marathi
- ट्रे
tray in Urdu
- object on which things are carried
- ٹِرے ṭire, ٹْرے ṭre, سینی senī, صینی senī, طَبَق tabaq, طَشْت taśt
tray in Bengali
- object on which things are carried
- পরাত porat
More languagesFewer languages
- tray in Telugu
- పళ్ళెం paḷḷeṁ, ట్రే ṭrē
- tray in Malayalam
- ട്രേ, ട്രേ ചെയ്യാൻ
- tray in Kannada
- ಟ್ರೇ
- tray in Punjabi
- ਟ੍ਰੇ, ਟਰੇ, ਟ੍ਰੇਅ ਕਰਨਾ
- tray in Gujarati
- ટ્રે
- tray in Odia
- ଟ୍ରେ, ଟ୍ରେ କରିବା
- tray in Nepali
- ट्रे, ट्रे गर्न
- tray in Arabic
- صِينِيَّة ṣīniyya
- tray in Malay
- dulang, baki
- tray in Indonesian
- nampan, baki
- tray in Thai
- ถาด tàat, กระบะ grà-bà
- tray in Vietnamese
- mâm, khay
- tray in Myanmar
- လင်ပန်း langpan:
Examples of tray in a sentence
- Breweriana includes beer cans, bottles, openers, coasters, beer trays, wooden cases and neon signs.
- She pre-positioned the surgical instruments in trays on a numbered rack.
- The pre-positioned surgical instruments stood ready in trays on a numbered rack.
Synonyms of tray
Forms of tray
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | trays |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | trays |
| present participle | traying |
| past participle | trayed |
| past | trayed |
Origin of tray
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”).
From Middle English trayen, treien, from Old English tregian (“to trouble, harass, vex”), from Proto-West Germanic *tregōn, from Proto-Germanic *tregōną (“to become tedious, become lazy, sadden”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreǵʰ- (“unwilling, sullen, slack”).
Words formed from tray
- half in tray and teen
- atray
- ashtray
- birth tray
- book-tray
- breakfast tray
- cable tray
- dishtray
- eggtray
- e-tray
- filing tray
- finger-tray
- ice cube tray
- ice tray
- in-tray
- litter tray
- meat tray
- out-tray
- party tray
- penny tray
- shower tray
- spoontray
- tasktray
- tea tray
- traybake
- traybaked
- traybody
- traycase
- tray ceiling
- traycloth
- trayful
- trayless
- traylike
- trayline
- traymobile
- traysful
- tray-table
- TV tray
- undertray
- washtray
- waste tray
Phrases with tray
Words that rhyme with tray
Questions about tray
- What does tray mean?
- Tray means a small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
- What is tray in Hindi?
- Tray in Hindi is ट्रे (ṭre), तश्तरी (taśtarī), थाल (thāl). See Tray meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tray?
- Tray can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tray?
- Tray is pronounced /tɹeɪ/.
- What is the plural of tray?
- The plural of tray is trays.
Words near tray in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tray (page history and authors); Tray (page history and authors); tray (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tray (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tray (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tray (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tray (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tray (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tray (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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