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plural trays
A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. quotations examples
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.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess
(by extension) The items on a full tray. examples
A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations. examples
(computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts. quotations examples
[…] 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
(computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging. examples
(Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled. examples
third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed
(transitive) to place (items) on a tray examples
(intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria. examples
(obsolete) trouble; annoyance; anger
(transitive, obsolete) to grieve; to annoy
(transitive, obsolete) to betray
Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”) examples
(LGBT slang) A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)