tray
part of speech
noun (tray, trays)
meaning for a pupil
1) A tray is a flat board with low edges for carrying food, cups or plates. tree →
2) A baking tray is a flat metal sheet for baking in the oven. tree →
3) An ice cube tray holds water to freeze into cubes. tree →
4) A tray on a desk holds papers. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: a container holding equal amounts (cookies per tray), an equal group: total = trays × per tray; trays = total ÷ per tray; arrays of muffins in rows and columns. Everyday: lunch tray, tea tray, seed tray, paint tray.
examples
- Each tray holds 12 cookies. tree →
- She baked 4 trays of muffins. tree →
- 36 cups fit on 3 trays. tree →
- How many trays are needed for 50 cookies? tree →
- Carry your lunch tray carefully. tree →
- Fill the ice cube tray and put it in the freezer. tree →
- The muffin tray has 3 rows of 4 holes. tree →
- Put your finished work in the tray on my desk. tree →
- On the tray there was bread, roast chicken, fruit. tree →
note
Countable: a tray, trays. Equal groups: total = trays × per tray; trays = total ÷ per tray. Trap: round up when every item must fit (50 cookies, 12 per tray: 5 trays).
In the corpora
- In a school box, small white caterpillars munch mulberry leaves so loudly that the tray sounds like soft rain.
- Scooby-Doo shakes with fear, Garfield wolfs a tray of lasagne, Sonic zooms round loops faster than sound.
- Memory games, like looking at objects on a tray and then naming them, train your attention.
- Old crumbs in a toaster can catch fire, so a grown-up empties the crumb tray when it is unplugged and cold.
- Roll dice inside the box lid or a tray, so they do not get lost and nobody argues about the number.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tray» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.