tray
/tɹeɪ/ noun B2- A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. · I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.· Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
- The items on a full tray. · Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
- A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations. · The CD tray will not open.· The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.
- 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.
Plural trays
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Like a tea-tray in the sky.
After each meal Marilla carried a well-filled tray to the east gable and brought it down later on not noticeably depleted.
“I don’t just remember whether I stuck it on the pincushion or laid it in the china tray.
“Ah!” Marilla laid down her tray.
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