Trayed vs Brayed - What's the difference?
trayed | brayed |
(tray)
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 verbs the difference between trayed and brayed
is that trayed is (tray) while brayed is .trayed
English
Verb
(head)tray
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.