Relay
['riːleɪ] or [rɪ'lɛi]
Definition
(noun.) the act of passing something along from one person or group to another; 'the relay was successful'.
(noun.) electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit.
(noun.) a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance.
(noun.) a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals.
(noun.) a crew of workers who relieve another crew.
(verb.) pass along; 'Please relay the news to the villagers'.
(verb.) control or operate by relay.
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Definition
(v. t.) To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
(n.) A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.
(n.) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.
(n.) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.
(n.) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
(n.) In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reinforcement, recruitment, refreshment, supply, relief
ANT:Exhaustion, consumption
Typist: Melba
Definition
v.t. to lay again as a pavement.
n. a supply of horses &c. to relieve others on a journey: a fresh set of dogs in hunting: a shift of men: a supplementary store of anything: (electr.) an apparatus by which the current of the receiving telegraphic station is strengthened.
Checker: Sondra
Examples
- His solution of this difficulty was a relay system. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When current is made, the relay attracts an armature, which thereby closes a circuit in a local battery and thus causes a click of the sounder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This device not only worked with great rapidity, but was extremely sensitive, and would respond to currents too weak to affect the most delicate electromagnetic relay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The relay coils are connected by wire to the spring piece, S, and the armature lever is connected to earth. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Under these conditions the current of the main line is not sent through the sounder, but through the relay which opens and closes a local battery in connection with the strong sounder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But in the height of the confusion, a mounted man galloped away to order the relays, and our horses were put to with great speed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Thus far we have referred to two systems, one the neutral or differential duplex, and the other the combination of the neutral and polar relays, making a diplex system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It consisted, generally speaking, of an electromagnet with relays connecting with a red and a blue lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I obviated this by using several relays, each with a different adjustment, working several sounders all connected with one sounding-plate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As this causes a loud repetition of the original signals, it will be seen that relaying is an economic method of extending a telegraph circuit beyond the natural limits of its battery power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She served, however, a most useful purpose, by virtue of her great bulk, steadiness, and carrying capacity, for relaying the Atlantic cable in 1866, and others in 1873-1874. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In such a case the movements would be the reverse of those above indicated, but the end sought--namely, the relaying of messages--would be attained with the same certainty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It will be understood, of course, that the electromotograph is a receiving and relaying instrument. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The actual relaying was accomplished through the medium of two contacts making connection with the local or relay circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Stan