Noun: tray
Sample Sentences
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I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.
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Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
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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: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
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The CD tray will not open.
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The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.
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baking tray
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[…]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:]
Nouns inflected like tray
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
trey', Old Norse Nouns '
treyja', Ancient Greek Nouns '
δροίτη'.