relay

«relay» in Mova's school dictionary: a race between teams in which each runner or swimmer does… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a relay, relays); verb (relay, relays, relayed, relaying)

meaning for a pupil

1) A relay or relay race is a race between teams in which each runner or swimmer does one part and then passes on to the next, often by handing over a baton. tree →

2) (verb) To relay a message is to pass it on to someone else. tree →

3) A device that passes on signals, or a switch in an electric circuit. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in PE and sports day: the relay race and passing the baton. In everyday life: "Please relay this message to your parents." In science: a relay switch. Phrase: "in relays" means in turns, groups taking over from each other.

examples

• Our class won the relay race. tree →
• Don't drop the baton in the relay! tree →
• Please relay the message to your teacher. tree →
• The swimmers did a four-person relay. tree →
• The firefighters worked in relays all night. tree →
• The satellite relays TV signals around the world. tree →
• I ran the last leg of the relay. tree →

note

Stress usually "REE-lay". Past: relayed. Each runner's part is called a "leg".

In the corpora

• The Inca built about 40,000 kilometres of roads with rope bridges over gorges, and relay runners carried messages very fast.
• The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales helped relay television pictures of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk to the world in 1969.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «relay» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.