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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#m1)

2) (verb) To relay a message is to pass it on to someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#m2)

3) A device that passes on signals, or a switch in an electric circuit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#x1)
- Don't drop the baton in the relay! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#x2)
- Please relay the message to your teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#x3)
- The swimmers did a four-person relay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#x4)
- The firefighters worked in relays all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#x5)
- The satellite relays TV signals around the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#x6)
- I ran the last leg of the relay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/19-the-aztecs-and-the-inca/15/)
- [The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales helped relay television pictures of the Apollo 11 Moonwalk to the world in 1969.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/27-telescopes-and-light/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «relay» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/relay/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.