Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - relay
Relay
relay
n. & v. --n. 1 a fresh set of people or horses substituted for tired ones. 2 a gang of workers, supply of material, etc., deployed on the same basis (operated in relays). 3 = relay race. 4 a device activating changes in an electric circuit etc. in response to other changes affecting itself. 5 a a device to receive, reinforce, and transmit a telegraph message, broadcast programme, etc. b a relayed message or transmission. --v.tr. 1 receive (a message, broadcast, etc.) and transmit it to others. 2 a arrange in relays. b provide with or replace by relays. Phrases and idioms relay race a race between teams of which each member in turn covers part of the distance. Etymology: ME f. OF relai (n.), relayer (v.) (as RE-, laier ult. f. L laxare): cf. RELAX
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, set of fresh hounds, from ~en Date: 1651 1. a supply (as of horses) arranged beforehand for successive relief, a number of persons who relieve others in some work , 2. a race between teams in which each team member successively covers a specified portion of the course, one of the divisions of a ~, an electromagnetic device for remote or automatic control that is actuated by variation in conditions of an electric circuit and that operates in turn other devices (as switches) in the same or a different circuit, servomotor, the act of passing along (as a message or ball) by stages, II. transitive verb (~ed; ~ing) see: delay Date: 1788 1. to place or dispose in ~s, to provide with ~s, to pass along by ~s , to control or operate by a ~, III. transitive verb (relaid; -laying) Etymology: re+ 1lay Date: 1757 to lay again ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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