different between cafeteria vs tray

English

Alternative forms

• caféteria
• cafétéria (rare)
• cafeterie

Etymology

(Mid 19th or 20th century) American Spanish cafetería (“coffeehouse”), from cafetera (“coffee maker”), from French cafetière, from café, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa, “coffee”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??i?
• Rhymes: -???i?

Noun

cafeteria (plural cafeterias)

1. A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat
2. A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere

Synonyms

• lunchroom
• (dining area in an institution): canteen

Related terms

• caf
• café, cafe
• drugeteria
• washeteria

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k?.f?.t???i.?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka.fe.te??i.a/
• Rhymes: -ia

Noun

cafeteria f (plural cafeteries)

1. cafe
2. cafeteria

Finnish

Noun

cafeteria

1. Alternative form of kafeteria.

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

cafeteria f (plural cafeterias)

1. cafeteria (type of restaurant)

Swedish

Noun

cafeteria c

1. cafeteria

Declension

Alternative forms

• kafeteria

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?, IPA^(key): /t?e?/
• Homophones: trey, trait (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English treye, from Old English tr??, tr?? (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-Germanic *trawj? (“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 ??????? (drouít?, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit ????? (dro?a, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.

Noun

tray (plural trays)

1. A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried.
2. (by extension) The items on a full tray.

   Synonym: trayful

3. A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.

4. (computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
   • 2007, Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista Secrets

     […] 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).

5. (computing, business) A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging.
6. (Australia) The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled.

   Synonym: bed

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)

1. (transitive) to place (items) on a tray

2. (intransitive) to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

Etymology 2

From Middle English traye, treie, from Old English trega (“misfortune, misery, trouble, grief, pain”), from Proto-Germanic *tregô (“mourning”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg?- (“unwilling, sullen, slack”). Cognate with Icelandic tregi (“sorrow, grief”), Gothic ???????????????????? (trig?, “grief”).

Noun

tray (plural trays)

1. (obsolete) trouble; annoyance; anger

Derived terms

• half in tray and teen

Etymology 3

From Middle English trayen, treien, from Old English tregian (“to trouble, harass, vex”), from Proto-Germanic *treg?n? (“to become tedious, become lazy, sadden”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg?- (“unwilling, sullen, slack”).

Verb

tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to grieve; to annoy

Etymology 4

From Middle English trayen, from Old French trair (“to betray”), from Latin trad? (“hand over, betray”). More at betray. Doublet of trade.

Verb

tray (third-person singular simple present trays, present participle traying, simple past and past participle trayed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to betray

Etymology 5

Noun

tray (plural trays)

1. Alternative form of trey (“third branch of deer's antler”)

Further reading

• tray on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Arty, arty

Kavalan

Noun

tray

1. electric wire; barbed wire

Malay

Etymology

From English try.

Verb

tray

1. (Sanggau) To try.

Synonyms

• cuba (standard)