different between tray vs disk

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)

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from ????? (diké?, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, and dish.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?sk, IPA^(key): /d?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Noun

disk (plural disks)

1. A thin, flat, circular plate or similar object.

2. (figuratively) Something resembling a disk.

3. (anatomy) An intervertebral disc
4. (dated) A vinyl phonograph/gramophone record.

5. (computer hardware) Ellipsis of floppy disk - removable magnetic medium or a hard disk - fixed, persistent digital storage.

6. (computer hardware, nonstandard) A disc - either a CD-ROM, an audio CD, a DVD or similar removable storage medium.

7. (agriculture) A type of harrow.
8. (botany) A ring- or cup-shaped enlargement of the flower receptacle or ovary that bears nectar or, less commonly, the stamens.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (disuku)
• ? Korean: ??? (diseukeu)
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: disk
• ? Thai: ????? (dìt)
• ? Turkish: disk

Usage notes

In most varieties of English, disk is the correct spelling for magnetic media (hence hard disk or disk drive), whereas the variant disc is usually preferred with optical media (hence compact disc or disc film). Thus, if referring to a physical drive or older media (3" or 5.25" diskettes) the k is used, but c is used for newer (optical based) media. For all other uses, disc is standard in Commonwealth English and disk in American English.

Less commonly, in British English, disc has been used for magnetic disks, as in floppy disc and discette. Such usage may be considered nonstandard.

Translations

Further reading

• disk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)

1. (agriculture) To harrow.
2. (aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.

Anagrams

• kids, ski'd, skid

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?sk]

Noun

disk m

1. disc, disk (thin, flat, circular plate or similar object)

   hod diskem

Declension

Derived terms

• diskový

Related terms

• disketa
• diskotéka

Further reading

• disk in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• disk in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Icelandic

Noun

disk

1. indefinite accusative singular of diskur

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

Noun

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural disker, definite plural diskene)

1. (in a shop etc.) a counter
2. (computing) a disc or disk

Derived terms

• harddisk

References

• “disk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr (sense 1), and English disc, disk (sense 2).

Noun

disk m (definite singular disken, indefinite plural diskar, definite plural diskane)

1. (in a shop etc.) a counter
2. (computing) a disc or disk

Derived terms

• harddisk

References

• “disk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *disk.

Noun

disk m

1. plate

Descendants

• Middle Low German:
  • German Low German: Disk, Disch

    Plautdietsch: Desch

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse diskr.

Noun

disk c

1. counter; table on which business is transacted
2. washing-up
3. dirty dishes
4. (anatomy) disc
5. disk drive

Declension

Synonyms

• (disk drive): hårddisk

Derived terms

• (counter): bardisk
• (washing-up): handdisk
• (dirty dishes): diskare, diskbalja, diskborste, diskho, diskmaskin, diskmedel, diskställ, frukostdisk
• (disc (anatomy)): diskbråck