different between tray vs voider

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

void +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v??d?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??d?(?)

Noun

voider (plural voiders)

1. One who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.
2. A tray or basket formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc.
   • 1609, Thomas Dekker, Guls Horne-Booke

     Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider.

   • 1656, History of Richard Hainam

     The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head.

3. (historical) A contrivance in armour for covering an unprotected part of the body.
4. (historical, rare) A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Decker to this entry?)

Anagrams

• devoir