trey

«trey» in Mova's school dictionary: a card, dice face or domino with three spots — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a trey, treys); name (Trey)

meaning for a pupil

1) A trey is a card, dice face or domino with three spots. tree →

2) (US, slang) In basketball, a trey is a shot scored from far away that is worth three points. tree →

3) Trey is also a boy's name (a name), often used in the USA. tree →

sense in the lessons

In card games and dice games it names the three; in sports talk in the USA, «hit a trey» means score a three-pointer; it helps in maths games with cards and dice.

examples

• I need a trey to win this round of cards. tree →
• The dice showed a trey. tree →
• He hit a trey just before the buzzer (US, slang). tree →
• The trey of hearts was the last card in the pack. tree →
• My friend Trey lives next door (a name). tree →

note

Old word coming from French «trois» (three). Rare in the UK except in card talk. Maths: a trey counts as 3.

In the corpora

• In Atlanta, Malachi's stepbrother Trey is the cool kid, and at school Trey ignores him.

Trees and pragmatics

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