Tray
[treɪ] or [tre]
Definition
(noun.) an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food.
Editor: Vito--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To betray; to deceive.
(n.) A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
(n.) A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.
(n.) A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.
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Definition
n. a shallow trough-like vessel: a salver.
n. the third branch of a deer's antler.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see trays in your dream, denotes your wealth will be foolishly wasted, and surprises of unpleasant nature will shock you. If the trays seem to be filled with valuables, surprises will come in the shape of good fortune.
Editor: Spence
Examples
- He put the tray with the breakfast and the letter on the dressing-table, before which Becky sat combing her yellow hair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He brought the whiskey in a glass with ice and beside the glass on a tray a small bottle of soda. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The only circumstance in connection with them that at all struck me was that the seal lay tidily in the tray with the pencils and the wax. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was a tray ready on a side-table. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Charcoal in the furnace being well ignited, ore and charcoal resting on the tray are alternately raked into the furnace. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- However, there was no help for it, and the tea-tray came, with seven cups and saucers, and bread-and-butter on the same scale. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In fact, it is my private opinion that she eats most of what goes up on the tray to Mr. Moore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- An inclined tray terminates at its lower end in a furnace inclosure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Give the tray to me; I will carry it in. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Charley appearing with a tray, on which are the pipe, a small paper of tobacco, and the brandy-and-water, he asks her, How do you come here! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He set the tray on a little table before the couch. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When all was ready, Margaret opened the study door, and went in like a serving-maiden, with a heavy tray held in her extended arms. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Nastasia brought the tea, with handleless Japanese cups and little covered dishes, placing the tray on a low table. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She again became utterly downcast; and Charley, seeing that she was not going to eat or drink any more, took away the tray. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The dessert was not carried out till after nine and at ten footmen were still running to and fro with trays and coffee- cups. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Miss Miller again gave the word of command-- Monitors, fetch the supper-trays! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Judy, with a gong-like clash and clatter, sets one of the sheet-iron tea-trays on the table and arranges cups and saucers. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Guttingen took away the breakfast trays and put more wood in the stove. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Many improvements, of course, have been made in detail of form, in ventilation, the supplying and regulating of heat and the moving of trays. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Miss Keeldar, Miss Helstone, and many other ladies were already there, glancing over the arrangement of their separate trays and tables. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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