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Tray can be a verb or a noun.
tray used as a verb:
- To place items on a tray.
"Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up." - To slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.
"Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
tray used as a noun:
- A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, rigid object upon which things are carried.
"I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs." - A flat carrier for items being transported.
"Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded." - The items on a full tray.
"Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another." - A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
"The CD tray will not open." - A notification area used for icons and alerts.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is tray?
- Verb usage: Be sure to tray eggs with the large end up.
- Verb usage: Traying has provided collegiate fun and the occasional fatality for decades.
- Noun usage: I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.
- Noun usage: Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.
- Noun usage: Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.
- Noun usage: The CD tray will not open.
- Noun usage: The loader is responsible for placing the work on the trays for the plating machines.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of tray are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of tray, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
