relay

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˌɹiːˈleɪ/    美 /ˌɹiˈleɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A new set of hounds. rare
  2. A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired. historical
  3. A new set of anything. broadly
    — There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
  4. A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
  5. A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.
  6. A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.; A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. The most common events are 4×100 meter and 4×400 meter competitions.
  7. An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
动词 v.
  1. To pass on or transfer (information). transitive
    — The CCTV cameras relay what's going on to the headquarters.
  2. Alternative spelling of re-lay. alt-of,alternative
    — Over this section the 16th class are allowed to haul 800 tons, compared with 600 tons only by the 13th and 14th, and 450 tons by the 12th class engines, and in this way, without any expenditure on civil engineering works or relaying with heavier rails, the introduction of the 16th class has almost doubled the line capacity.
  3. To release a new set of hounds. intransitive,obsolete
  4. To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another. archaic,transitive
  5. To take on a new relay of horses; to change horses. archaic,intransitive

词形变化

relays plural relays present,singular,third-person relaying participle,present relayed participle,past relayed past relays present,singular,third-person relaying participle,present relaid participle,past relaid past

词汇关系

衍生词
Indian relay mail relay radio relay reed relay relay cylinder relay race relay room relay station relay strike spam relay Swedish relay time-delay relay misrelay nanorelay phosphorelay

词源

词源 1
From Middle French relai (“reserve pack of hounds”), from relaier (“to exchange tired animals for fresh”); literally, "to leave behind", from Old French relaier (“to leave behind”), from re- + laier (“to leave”), of uncertain origin.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Old English læġ
English lay
English relay
From re- + lay.
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