tray meaning
EN
[treɪ] [-eɪ] 
US WTray
- A tray is a shallow platform designed for carrying things. It can be fashioned from numerous materials, including silver, brass, sheet iron, paperboard, wood, melamine, and molded pulp.
- Trays are flat, but with raised edges to stop things from sliding off of them. They are made in a range of shapes but are commonly found in oval or rectangular forms, sometimes with cutout or attached handles with which to carry them.
- NounPLtrays
- (obsolete) Trouble; annoyance; anger.
- A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, rigid object upon which things are carried.
- 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.
- A flat carrier for items being transported.
- 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.
- 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.
- (computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
- (obsolete) Trouble; annoyance; anger.
- VerbSGtraysPRtrayingPT, PPtrayed
- (transitive, obsolete) To grieve; annoy.
- (transitive) To place items on a tray.
- Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.
- (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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To betray.
- (transitive, obsolete) To grieve; annoy.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- he loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.
- Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of tray in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
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- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "tray" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.