Thesaurus results for TRAY

tray

noun

Definition of tray

as in plate

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Recent Examples of tray Look at a Burger King Whooper in an NFL game commercial versus the actual burger that arrives on the tray at your local franchise. — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 Use a humidifier or set the pot on a tray of pebbles in water to raise humidity in your home. — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Sep. 2026 The collectible piece features the brand’s iconic check pattern, elegant gold detailing, and a 13-inch-long tray that’s perfect for party-size servings of wings and pigs in a blanket. — Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2026 Course designer Leopoldo Palacios’s influential track featured a rollback to the water tray — a bit of trickery that Palacios had famously used at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and had shelved since. — Tilly Berendt, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tray

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Noun

Adding to the effortlessness of my stay, silicone bibs, cups, spoons, and plates plus high chairs were provided immediately at every restaurant, and the diverse kids menu doesn’t consist of simply junk food and French fries.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
From a distance roughly equivalent to the size of the plates, two rough-textured, vaguely oblong stones lean toward them.

— Barry Schwabsky, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of plate

Noun

Take oyakodon, a saucy chicken and egg rice bowl, or mapo tofu, where spicy tofu sings with ground meat.

— Emily Laurence Sardinha, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Oct. 2026
This countertop-friendly frozen dessert machine features five delicious presets for ice cream, sorbet, gelato, smoothie bowls and frozen yogurt.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of bowl

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In March, a co-conspirator allegedly told a Malaysian official that the 27 servers had reached a Chinese buyer.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
Expecting heavy traffic on the site, the archive has outsourced the database to external servers to avoid overloading its own.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of server

Noun

Loaded with chicken, this casserole is a perfect main dish to serve alongside steamed rice, garlic bread, or a bright vegetable side dish.

— Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2026
That might be a big casserole of stuffing, a batch of chocolate chip cookies, or any situation in which adding too little salt would be a hard deficit to overcome later on.

— Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of casserole

Noun

A lot of the appeal of going to theaters is that the performance remains a mystery right up until showtime, a benefit that stealthy filming could threaten, said Bradley, a waiter and theatre director.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2026
At the time they were cast in Heated Rivalry, Williams and Storrie were both working as waiters.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of waiter

Noun

Goddard said she was amused during last week’s performances to serve audiences a complimentary cup and saucer of Abigail’s tea blend and gauge flavor reactions.

— Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
The delicate teacups and saucers (like many of the hotel’s ceramics) are made by Noritake—a historic Japanese ceramics company which produced the nation’s first Western-style dinner set in 1914, just a few years after the prison opened.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026

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