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Definitions: Relay |
RelayNoun1. The act of relaying something. 2. Electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit. Verb1. Pass along; "Please relay the news to the villagers". 2. Control or operate by relay. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "relay" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
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Electrical Engineering | Electrical device by means of which a circuit is automatically controlled by a change in the same or another circuit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | An(N)-function by means of which an(N)-entity forwards data received from one correspondent(N)-entity to another correspondent(N)-entity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | In marine transportation, a procedure in which a shipment is shipped to an intermediate port and transferred to another vessel for delivery to the ultimate destination port. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A device designed to produce sudden, predetermined changes in one or more electrical output circuits, when certain conditions are fulfilled in the electrical input circuits controlling the device. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A device, operated by an electric current, and causing by its operation abrupt changes in an electrical circuit (making or breaking the circuit, changing of the circuit connections, or variation in the circuitcharacteristics). (references) |
Post & Telecom | The satellite relayed a French TV program to the United States during its fifteenth orbit. Source: European Union. (references) |
Shipping | To transfer containers from one ship to another when both vessels are controlled by the same network (carrier) manager. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
When a current flows through the induction coil, the resulting magnetic field attracts an armature that is mechanically linked to a moving contact. The movement either makes or breaks a connection with a fixed contact. When the current is switched off, the armature is returned by a spring to its resting position.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Relay."
Synonym: RelaySynonym: electrical relay (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Materials | Materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum; (food); ammunition; (arms); contingents; relay, reinforcement, reenforcement; baggage; (personal property); means; calico, cambric, cashmere. |
Store | Store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay; (provision). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Relay |
| English words defined with "relay": baton ♦ electrical relay ♦ Relaid, Relay battery, relay links, relay race, relay stations, relay transmitters, Relaying ♦ Stagehouse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "relay": airborne radio relay, all-or-nothing relay ♦ chief, relay tester, clock relay, Cordtex relay ♦ Frame Relay Access Device ♦ Internet Relay Chat ♦ manual tape relay, mercury wetted relay, mercury-wetted relay ♦ non-polarised relay, non-polarized relay ♦ overcurrent relay, overvoltage relay ♦ phase-balance relay, polarised relay, polarized relay ♦ relay baton, relay haulage, relay rape, relay system, RELAY TECHNICIAN, RELAY TESTER, remanent relay ♦ supervisory relay ♦ thermionic relay, time-delay relay, torn tape relay, torn-tape relay system, Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, two-step relay ♦ vibrating relay, vital relay. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "relay": Relais. (references) |
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Screenplays | Satellite relay station back in L.A., watching you from a 200 mile orbit. (Alias; writing credit: Robert Soulé; Henri de Turenne) | |
Lyrics | When Miss Chilli came to relay ("Diggin' On You"; performing artist: TLC) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scrappy's Relay Race (1934) The Relay (1927) | |
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 | AQUARIUS technician communicates with the shore base to relay life support data.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Maj. Terrence Leary (left) helps Maj. Russell Fellers adjust the seat before taking off on the next 10-mile leg of a 40-mile mountain bike relay during the all-service Wilderness Challenge 2000. Leary and Fellers were members of the Air Force Pentagon tea. |
 | Microwave Relay Station.Credit: John Craig. |  | Edison motograph relay, (ca. 1873), photographed at Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan;1930;{24.000/1}. |
 | Moth found trapped between points at Relay # 70, Panel F, of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator while it was being tested at Harvard University, 9 September 1945. The operators affixed the moth to the computer log, with the entry: "First actual case of bug being found". They put out the word that they had "debugged" the machine, thus introducing the term "debugging a computer program". In 1988, the log, with the moth still taped by the entry, was in the Naval Surface Warfare Center Computer Museum at Dahlgren, Virginia.Credit: NAVY. |  | Thomas' Viaduct, Relay.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Relay Hotel.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Travers Island, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration at the Norwegian gunners' school. Relay race.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Melted sulphur from the wells pouring into relay station, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | American Telephone & Telegraph Co., East Bench, Utah. Radio relay station.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monsieur will have to wait at least three or four hours at each relay, and then they go at a walk. |
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Health | Most relay messages of a sensory nature. (references) | |
Some proteins, for example, relay signals that tell immune cells to multiply and mature. (references) | ||
One of their earliest findings came from studies of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that relay messages between neurons. (references) | ||
Business | This project will replace the radio relay line network for transmission by satellites. (references) | |
A system of 240 radio relay stations used for TV and radio broadcasting covers Ukraine. (references) | ||
A network of 240 radio relay stations is used for TV and radio broadcasting to cover Ukraine. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | They broadcast on FM in Abidjan only, except for RFI, which broadcasts via relay antennas to the north and center of the country. (references) |
Indonesia | The Government radio station, Radio Republik Indonesia (RRI), produces the program "National News." Private radio stations and 53 regional government network affiliates relay the news programming throughout the country. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | The rest are serviced by obsolete relay and mechanical equipment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Relay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.99% of the time. "Relay" is used about 282 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.99% | 172 | 23,722 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 24.82% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.35% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.42% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 1.42% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 282 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "relay": airborne radio relay ♦ clock relay ♦ cutout relay ♦ cytoplasmic relay ♦ detonating relay ♦ electrical relay ♦ frame relay ♦ frame Relay Access Device ♦ frame relay service ♦ fully automatic relay installation ♦ internet Relay Chat ♦ manual tape relay ♦ mercury wetted relay ♦ network level relay ♦ polarised relay ♦ polarized relay ♦ radio relay ♦ radio relay station ♦ relay baton ♦ relay battery ♦ relay box ♦ relay cylinder ♦ relay each other ♦ relay governor ♦ relay links ♦ relay race ♦ relay rack ♦ relay rape ♦ relay set ♦ relay station ♦ relay stations ♦ relay swimming ♦ relay switch ♦ relay system ♦ relay team ♦ relay time ♦ relay transmitters ♦ remanent relay ♦ sun relay ♦ supervisory relay ♦ tape relay ♦ thermionic relay ♦ torn tape relay ♦ torn tape relay installation ♦ vibrating relay ♦ vital relay ♦ work in relay. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "relay": (N)-relay, data-relay, uknet-relay. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "relay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ritransmetues, rele, transmetoj (air, broadcast, communicate, conduct, give, pipe, put across, reach, telecast, translate, transmit), stafetë (relay race), pasim (pass, throw), përforcues (amplifier, aphrodisiac, booster, magnifier), ndërroj (cast, change, commute, distort, dress, exchange, malt, proselytize, relieve, remove, transfigure, veer), ndërresë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فرش (brush, furnishing, furniture), مناوبة (alternation, by fits and starts, rotation, shift, turn of duty, watch), محرك موطور, نقل على مراحل, تناوب (alternate, alternation, rotate, rotation, shift), تعاقب في العمل, سباق البدل أو التناوب, زود بأبدال, المرحل, الابدال, أعاد البث (rebroadcast, repeat), رحل (be moved, carry, depart, expel, flit, itinerant, migrant, move, pack up, part, pass, peregrinate, pull out, remove, send back, shift, slope), بث علي مراحل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смяна (alternation, change, exchange, interchange, rotation, shift, transfer, turn, vicissitude), сменям (alternate, change, change off, change round, exchange, interchange, shift, spell, swap, switch over to, throw, transfer), спомагателен мотор (servo motor), реле, щафета (baton, relay race), осигурявам смяна, препредаване, препредавам (pipe), получавам на смени, изпращам на смени. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 轉' (broadcast), 中转 (relays). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | relé, smìna (inning, shift), pracovat na smìny, přenos (broadcast, transference, transmission), přenášet (beam, communicate), bìžet štafetu, èeta (gang, platoon, squad, team), štafeta (baton, relay race). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | relay, relae (cutout relay), relæ (electrical relay), rel, vendegear (reverser idler, reversing gear, reversing gear mechanism, reversing gears, speed reverser gear), elektrisk relæ (electrical relay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | relay unit, relais (cutout relay, electrical relay), schakelaar (circuit-breaker, contactor, selector, switch), keerkoppeling (reverse, reverser idler, reversing drive, reversing gear, reversing mechanism, speed reverser gear), elektrisch relais (electrical relay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | stafeto (relay racer, relay rider). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مسابقه دوامدادی , تقویت کردن (Augment, Beef, Bolster, Corroborate, Edify, Encourage, Fort, Rally, Reinforce, Sustain, Undergird, Uphold), ایستگاه تقویت , دستگاه تقویت نیروی برق , بازپخش کردن , بازپخش . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rele. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | relayer (redeem, relieve), relais (cutout relay, electrical relay, relaying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Relais (cutout relay, electrical relay), staffellauf (relay race), staffel (bench, degree, detachment, easel, echelon, grade, grading, progressive interconnection, relay race, relay team, rung, squadron, stair, step, tressle, workbench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναμετάδοση (broadcast, rediffusion, relaying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ממסר, לש"ר (beam, transmit), ל"עביר "לא" (carry forward, forward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | váltás (change, relief, shift, spell, turn, turnout), relé, jelfogó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyampaikan (convey, deliver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | relé (cutout relay, electrical relay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 交替 (alternation, change, relief, shift). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | リレー , なかつぎ (agency, brokerage, intermediary), つぎたて, "うたい (a luminous body, alternation, antibody, backspace, change, exchange, relief, retreat, rise and fall, shift), けいで"き (appliance), ていで" (failure of electricity), ちゅうけい (ceremonial folding fan, hook-up, middle distance, the younger of two elder brothers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 릴 이 (relays). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | reelay, possan noa, lhiass-chreeley, lhiass-chreelaghey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elayray revezar, retransmitir, relé eléctrico (electrical relay), relé (cutout relay, electrical relay, relaying), transmitir (bequeath, carry, communicate, conduct, convey, deliver, devolve, give, hand, hand out, impartial, leave behind, pass on, render, report, send, superinduce, to leave, transfer, transfuse, transmit, turn over), substituir (displaced person, existence, placebo, relieve, renew, replace, shift, stand in for, substitute, supersede, supplant, take the place of), mudar (alter, bartender, change, chop, clabber, exchange, gybe, hand back, move, pass, shed, switch, to change, transform, transmogrify, turn, vary), muda (doffing, ecdysis, moult, slip), inversor (diverter, inverter, invertor, invest, investor, reverser, reverser idler, reversing gear, speed reverser gear), dispor em turnos, "relais". (various references) releu (repeater), transmite prin releu, schimb (barter, change, compensation, exchange, I change, pair, relief, return, shift, spell, substitute, swap, swop, truck), echipã (gang, group, set, side, spell, squad, team), aşeza din nou (reseat), înzestra cu rele. (various references) эстафета (relay race, relay-race), сменять (relieve, replace), смена (change, exchange, pair, relief, shift), реле, радиотрансляция, трансляция (broadcasting, compilation, repeater, translation), транслировать (compile, translate). (various references) relej, preneti (assign, broadcast, carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, convey, negotiate, remise, translate), poslati (consign, consign to, dispatch, forward, get off, remit, send, set forth, ship), nova zaprega. (various references) relé (cutout relay, electrical relay). (various references) relä (electrical relay). (various references) เครื่องถ่ายทอ"สัญญา", เครื่องถ่ายทอ"กระแสไฟฟ้า, ถ่ายทอ"สัญญา", ถ่ายทอ", การถ่ายทอ", การวิ่งผลั". (various references) röle (tripping), yorulanın yerini alan grup, yerini almak (cut in, oust, replace, sit in for, subrogate, substitute, supersede, supplant, take one's place), yerini alan kimse, yerine koymak (bestow, case, clap, posit, put back, put up, replace, slot into, spot), yedek at (remount), yayın yapmak (beam, broadcast, radiate, send), vardiya (job rotation, shift, spell, turn of work, watch), naklen yayın yapmak, naklen yayın (live broadcast, rebroadcast, remote), nöbetleşe çalışan şey, kontervizör, el değiştirmek (change hands), bayrak yarışı (relay race). (various references) estafeta (r) (relay race). (various references) міняти (barter, cast, change, shift, swap, switch, trade, vary), змінюватися (alter, change, spell, veer), зміна (alteration, alternation, casting, change, mutation, revolution, shift, spell, take over, turnover, variance), естафета. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | relaier. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | relai. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "relay": relayed, relaying, relays. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "relay": virelay. (additional references) | |
Words containing "relay": virelays. (additional references) | |
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"Relay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Areley, elay, irela, Pelay, rala, ralah, raley, Reala, realy, reay, rebay, Rebaya, rehay, rela, relah, relai, relain, relait, relat, relaw, relayd, Relea, relei, reley, reliq, relly, relo, relym, remay, resay, reslay, rialy, rilay, Rilby, rinay, rolay, rplay. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: early, layer, leary. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-r-y" | |
-1 letter: aery, aryl, earl, eyra, lear, lyre, rale, real, rely, yare, year. | |
-2 letters: ale, are, aye, ear, era, lar, lay, lea, ley, lye, ray, rya, rye, yar, yea. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, ar, ay, el, er, la, re, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-r-y" | |
+1 letter: aerily, argyle, barely, barley, bleary, dearly, elytra, flayer, lawyer, layers, lyrate, nearly, parley, pearly, player, rallye, rarely, really, realty, relays, replay, slayer, yarely, yearly. | |
+2 letters: alertly, allayer, allergy, already, angerly, areally, argyles, barleys, bilayer, blarney, bravely, caloyer, charley, clayier, clearly, delayer, dryable, eagerly, earthly, flayers, gallery, gravely, greatly, greylag, inlayer, irately, lamprey, larceny, largely, lathery, lawyers, layered, layover, loyaler, lyrated, overlay, palfrey, parleys, parsley, peartly, pedlary, peytral, players, plenary, prelacy, pteryla, rallyes, ravelly, rayless, raylike, readily, reality, reapply, regally, relayed, replays, sealery, slavery, slayers, sparely, tearily, trawley, treacly, virelay, wearily. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6C 61 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .-.. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101100 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e l a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006C 0061 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271786791 |
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