relay
relay is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
- noun. A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.
- noun. A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
- noun. 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.
- noun. the act of passing something along from one person or group to another
"the relay was successful"
- noun. electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit
- noun. a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance
- noun. a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals
- noun. a crew of workers who relieve another crew
- verb. pass along
"Please relay the news to the villagers"
- verb. control or operate by relay
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in relay:
Common word forms
relays, relayed, relayer, relaying
Words from these letters
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