relay - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'relay' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Relay

[ n.]

- A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.
- A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.
- A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way.
- A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
- In various forms of telegraphic apparatus, a magnet which receives the circuit current, and is caused by it to bring into into action the power of a local battery for performing the work of making the record; also, a similar device by which the current in one circuit is made to open or close another circuit in which a current is passing.

2 . Relay

[ v. t.]

- To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

Meaning of 'relay' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . relay

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the act of passing something along from one person or group to another

Example in sentence:

the relay was successful

2 . relay

[ v]

Meaning (2):
- pass along

Example in sentence:

Please relay the news to the villagers

Nearby Words:

relade relaid relais reland relapse relapsed relapser relapsing relate related

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