Punnet vs Tray - What's the difference?
punnet | tray |
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) A small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries.
* 1904 , Arthur George Liddon Rogers, The Business Side of Agriculture , 2010, Forgotten Books,
* 1917 , Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher, The Strawberry in North America: History, Origin, Botany, and Breeding ,
* 1933 , South Australian Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Journal of Agriculture, South Australia , Volume 36,
* 1982 , New Zealand Department of Agriculture, New Zealand journal of agriculture ,
* 2005 , , The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets ,
* 2007 May 13, Amelia Hill, ,
A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, rigid object upon which things are carried.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 A flat carrier for items being transported.
The items on a full tray.
A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
(computing, graphical user interface, informal) A notification area used for icons and alerts.
* 2007 , Brian Livingston, Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista Secrets
To place items on a tray.
To slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
As nouns the difference between punnet and tray
is that punnet is (uk|australia|new zealand) a small basket or receptacle for collecting and selling fruit, particularly strawberries while tray is (obsolete) trouble; annoyance; anger or tray can be a small, typically rectangular or round, flat, rigid object upon which things are carried.As a verb tray is
(obsolete) to grieve; annoy or tray can be to place items on a tray or tray can be (obsolete) to betray.punnet
English
(wikipedia punnet)Noun
(en noun)page 85:
- Thus, according to the same Year-Book'', a sea-kale punnet''' measures 8 in. in diameter at the top and 7½ in. at the bottom, being 2 in. deep, while a radish '''punnet''' is 8 in. in diameter and 1 in. deep, if to hold six “hands,” or 9 in. by 1 in. for twelve “hands.” A mushroom '''punnet''' is 7 in. by 1 in., while a salading ' punnet is 5 in. by 2 in.
pages 77-78:
- Another type of splint basket, called a punnet', was used in the strawberry trade of New York City between 1815 and 1850.' Punnets and pottles found little favor except in the vicinity of Boston and New York and were soon discarded for more convenient and less expensive packages.
page 1292:
- Most of the fruit for market is picked and sold in punnets , but for jam making buckets are used, similar to the raspberry bucket.
page 13:
- Early this season, Ross Lill got together with a plastics firm to produce a flat tray to replace the commonly used punnet .
page 408:
- However we recommend, particularly in cooler climates, sowing tomato seeds into a seed tray or punnet and allowing the seedlings to grow before they are transplanted into the garden.
Forget superfoods, you can?t beat an apple a day:
- ‘But rather than spend £5 on a small punnet of exotic berries, a family would be better off buying regular and larger quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables from their local market.’
Synonyms
* (receptacle for strawberries) chip (qualifier), pottletray
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) traye, treie, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) trayen, treien, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) treye, from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(wikipedia tray) (en noun)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
- 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).
Derived terms
* in-tray * meat tray * out-tray * tray-table * TV trayVerb
(en verb)- Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.
- Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.