Grayed vs Trayed - What's the difference?
grayed | trayed |
(gray)
(label) Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
* Isaac Newton
(label) Dreary, gloomy.
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(label) Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
(label) Relating to older people.
* Ames
(label) To become gray.
(label) To cause to become gray.
To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
(en noun) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)
(label) An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
an extraterrestrial creature with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy
(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 grayed and trayed
is that grayed is past tense of gray while trayed is past tense of tray.grayed
English
Verb
(head)gray
English
Alternative forms
* grey (used in the UK and the Commonwealth and also in the US)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Adjective
(er) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)Usage notes
A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: gre'''y'' is the '''E'''nglish spelling, while ''gr'''a'''y'' is the '''A merican spelling. However, ''grey is also found in American English.Derived terms
{{der3, battleship gray , gray area , graybeard , gray-haired , grayhound , grayness , gray ghost , gray matter}}Verb
(en-verb) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)Noun
See also
*References
Etymology 2
Named after (Louis Harold Gray).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
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* * English eponyms ----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.