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

2) (US, slang) In basketball, a trey is a shot scored from far away that is worth three points. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trey/#m2)

3) Trey is also a boy's name (a name), often used in the USA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trey/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trey/#x1)
- The dice showed a trey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trey/#x2)
- He hit a trey just before the buzzer (US, slang). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trey/#x3)
- The trey of hearts was the last card in the pack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trey/#x4)
- My friend Trey lives next door (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trey/#x5)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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