tray

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A shallow flat receptacle with a raised edge or rim, used for carrying, holding, or displaying articles.
• noun A shallow flat receptacle with its contents.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Trouble; annoyance; anger.
• To grieve; annoy.
• noun Deceit; stratagem.
• noun Same as trey.
• noun The third branch, snag, or point of a deer's antler.
• To betray.
• noun A trough, open box, or similar vessel used for different domestic and industrial purposes. Specifically
• noun A flat shallow vessel or utensil with slightly raised edges, employed for holding bread, dishes, glassware, silver, cards, etc., and for other household uses.
• noun A wide shallow coverless box of wood or cardboard, used in museums for packing and displaying specimens of natural history.
• noun A shallow and usually rectangular dish or pan of crockery ware, gutta-percha, papier-mâché, metal, or other material, used in museums for holding wet (alcoholic) specimens when these are overhauled for study, etc. Similar trays are used for ova in fish-culture, for many chemical operations, in photography, etc.
• noun A hod.
• noun A hurdle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To betray; to deceive.
• noun A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
• noun A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.
• noun A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete Trouble; annoyance; anger.
• verb transitive, obsolete To grieve; annoy.
• verb transitive, obsolete To betray.
• noun A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, rigid object upon which things are carried.
• noun A flat carrier for items being transported.
• noun The items on a full tray.
• noun A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations.
• noun computing, graphical user interface, informal A notification area used for icons and alerts.
• verb transitive To place items on a tray.
• verb intransitive To slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food