tray

Meanings

Noun

• A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
• The items on a full tray.
• A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
• A notification area used for icons and alerts.
• 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.
• trouble; annoyance; anger
• Alternative of trey
• A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay)

Verb

• to place (items) on a tray
• to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
• to grieve; to annoy
• to betray

Origin

• From Middle English treye, from Old English trēġ, trīġ, from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją, from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru. Cognate with Old Norse treyja, Old Swedish trø, Low German Treechel, Ancient Greek δρουίτη, Sanskrit द्रोण. Related to trough and tree.
• From Middle English traye, treie, from Old English trega, from Proto-Germanic *tregô, from Proto-Indo-European *dregʰ-. Cognate with Icelandic tregi, Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌲𐍉.
• From Middle English trayen, treien, from Old English tregian, from Proto-Germanic *tregōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dregʰ-.
• From Middle English trayen, from Old French trair, from Latin tradō. More at betray. trade.