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# tray

«tray» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat board with low edges for carrying food, cups or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

2) A baking tray is a flat metal sheet for baking in the oven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#m2)

3) An ice cube tray holds water to freeze into cubes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#m3)

4) A tray on a desk holds papers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x1)
- She baked 4 trays of muffins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x2)
- 36 cups fit on 3 trays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x3)
- How many trays are needed for 50 cookies? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x4)
- Carry your lunch tray carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x5)
- Fill the ice cube tray and put it in the freezer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x6)
- The muffin tray has 3 rows of 4 holes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x7)
- Put your finished work in the tray on my desk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x8)
- On the tray there was bread, roast chicken, fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tray/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/0/)
- [Scooby-Doo shakes with fear, Garfield wolfs a tray of lasagne, Sonic zooms round loops faster than sound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker/0/)
- [Memory games, like looking at objects on a tray and then naming them, train your attention.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/18-remembering-details/16/)
- [Old crumbs in a toaster can catch fire, so a grown-up empties the crumb tray when it is unplugged and cold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/107-oven-hob-kettle-toaster-and-dishwasher/12/)
- [Roll dice inside the box lid or a tray, so they do not get lost and nobody argues about the number.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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