relayn.1
/ˈriːleɪ/, U.S. /ˈriˌleɪ/ 1. Hunting. A set of fresh hounds or (occasionally) horses posted to replace a tired set in a chase; spec. such a set of hounds released after a previous set has passed. Cf. vauntlay n. Now rare (chiefly archaic in later use).In early use also: †a place where such a set is posted (obsolete).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] > place where fresh hounds posted
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relayc1425
release1490
reset1616
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > pack of hounds > fresh
relayc1425
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 94 At ouery rolay [v.r. relay] suffisethe ii couple of houndes or iii at þe most.
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 6 (MED) Whan he shal be commen aȝein to þese semble or metyngis, þan hath he most to doon for to ordayn his fynders and relaies.
a1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 362 A gret route Of hontis, & eke of fosters Wiþ many Relayes, and lymerys.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xiv. 36 Then may you choose out a Forest wherein the Relaies be of equall proportion.
a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. vi. 26 in Wks. (1640) III Rob. What relayes set you? John. None at all; we laid not In one fresh dog. View more context for this quotation
1651 W. Davenant Gondibert i. ii. xxviii [They] now dispose their choice Relays Of Horse and Hounds, each like each other fleet.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) The Cry, or Kennel of Relay-Hounds.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 506 Press'd by the fresh Relay, no Pause allow'd, Breathless and faint, he faulters in his Pace.
1842 H. Taylor Edwin the Fair i. vi Oh, the best bitch! She holds them all together, Relay or vauntlay, 'tis the same to her.
1910 F. S. Peer Hunting Field xxvi. 288 The Master consults a map of the forest and determines..where to station the riders and the relay of hounds.
2.
a. A set of fresh horses obtained or kept ready at various stages along a route to replace a tired set. In early use frequently in horse of relay. Also figurative. Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > a relay or change of horses
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > fresh or reserve > set of
relay1613
1613 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 426 The propositioun maid..for provyding of horses of rela at plaices convenient within the realme.
1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxix, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) A horse of relay or return.
1694 R. Molesworth Acct. Denmark in 1692 xiii. 212 By the means of some trusty Servants, [he] had re-lays of Horses placed in convenient stations.
1713 London Gaz. No. 5137/8 [They] came hither..with three Relays of Horses.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 18 Who call aloud..For Change of Follies, and Relays of Joy, To drag your patient, through the tedious length Of a short Winter's Day.
1763 T. Smollett Trav. (1766) I. 137 It was as disagreeable to him as to me to wait for a relay.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. iv. i. 7 Relays of horses are ready, night and day, to aid you to the coast.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xii. §552 Thus we are entitled to regard the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and Persian Gulf as relays, distributed along the route of these thirsty winds..to supply them with vapours.
1879 A. R. Wallace Australasia xvi. 327 A traveller may have relays of horses to carry him day and night at the rate of ten miles an hour.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse viii. 97 They galloped South along the post road, pausing only for relays, and trundled over the bridge into Avignon.
a1978 M. Mallowan in Cambr. Hist Iran (1985) II. vii. 402 Relays of post-horses..spread out at a day's interval over the royal roads.
b. A place where a set of fresh horses is obtained or kept. Now historical and rare.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > a relay or change of horses > place where horses changed
postage1603
stage1603
mutation1610
relay1706
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Relays, is also sometimes taken for fresh Horses, or the Stage where they are kept.
1767 R. Bentley Philodamus iii. i. 25 He was sour'd but at the last relay.
1834 G. P. R. James John Marston Hall xxi I rode on as fast as possible to the next post relay.
1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iv. 217 How the mind runs from each to each relay, Town after town, till Paris' self be touched.
1920 E. Saltus Imperial Orgy vi. 142 There were five hundred horses at each relay.
c. A set or series of vehicles, etc., intended to cover a prescribed route, usually in sequence.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [noun] > transport by relays of motor vehicles
relay1743
1743 G. Turnbull & W. Guthrie tr. ‘Monsieur de Blainville’ Trav. I. liii. 323 Here one finds Relays of Boats, which are managed by Swiss Boatmen.
1780 T. Hussey Let. 31 May in R. Cumberland Mem. (1806) 216 My servant Daly carries a memorandum of the road and the different places where the relays of carriages are to meet you.
1852 J. J. Williams Isthmus of Tehuantepec i. 73 A relay of carriages and wagons could be in readiness to take passengers and baggage over the plains to the Pacific.
1890 Catholic World May 228 A relay of ambulance cars had been telegraphed the morning of our arrival.
1921 Outlook 9 Mar. 367/1 The three hundred pounds of mail which was borne across the continent..was transported by a relay of planes.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 27 June 6 I chartered a relay of cars which got us to Beirut..up the coast road.
2005 C. Elkins Imperial Reckoning vii. 201 The detainees traveled in a relay of different transports—lorries, enclosed boxcars, and a cargo ship.
3.
a. A group of people, esp. workers, appointed to relieve others or to operate in sequence. Also in extended use.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > one who relieves another worker > group of
spell1593
relay1698
1698 E. D'Auvergne Hist. Campagne Flanders 1697 112 The Fourth Troop of Guards march'd out of the Camp to post it self in Relays for the Guard of His Majesty's Person between Breda and Loo.
1751 R. Paltock Life Peter Wilkins II. xiv. 123 Secondly, Four hundred Bearers of the Cannon, with two hundred to the right, the like to the left, as Relays.
1791 tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Indian Cottage 11 He furnished him with a crimson silk palanquin, with curtains and gold studs; and two relays, consisting of four each, of stout coulis.
1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife I. xxiii. 346 Nicholas Ferrar..had relays of musicians every six hours to sing the whole Psalter through.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 104 They have mosques where it [sc. the Koran] is all read daily; thirty relays of priests take it up in succession, get through the whole each day.
1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 144 The army was divided into relays, and one party worked while the other slept and ate.
1942 H. MacInnes Assignment in Brittany xvi. 147 We'll sleep in relays.
1968 L. de Kiriline Lawrence Lovely & Wild vii. 129 One relay of birds is relieved by the next oncoming throng.
2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 13 Sept. 5 A team of 300 firefighters working in relays stopped the containers catching light.
b. Chiefly Athletics. A race of team members, esp. runners, competing in sequence; spec. one performed by teams (usually of four) in which each member in turn covers part of the distance, and a baton is often passed from one member to the next. Also: a member or section of such a race.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > relay race > section of
relay1920
1899 Outing June 317/2 The three Intercollegiate championship relay races were all carried off by Yale teams... The great event of the day, outside the relays, was the remarkable performance of A. C. Kraenzlein in the broad jump.
1920 Isis 13 Oct. 2/2 Ten yards is allotted each side of the starting line in which to pass the baton to the next competitor, for every relay subsequent to the one which begins the race.
1939 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 650/2 Peter Fick lowered the world's record for the 400-metre relay..while Ralph Flanagan swam 400 metres free style in 4 min. 46·2 sec.
1974 Country Life 14 Feb. 292/3 The England women's only gold medal in athletics..came in 4×400 metres relay.
2006 S. A. Flaum et al. 100-mile Walk i. 49 A day before Phelps and his U.S.A. teammates were about to swim the Olympic relay, he decided to give up his spot to teammate Ian Crocker.
c. Baseball. A defensive play in which a throw from an outfielder to an infielder is made in two stages, via a third fielder who catches the ball from the outfielder and throws it on to its intended destination. Chiefly attributive: see Compounds 1b.
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1915 W. J. Clarke & F. T. Dawson Baseball vii. 105 The position of the ball will determine who is to assist in the relay and who is to cover second base.
1943 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 28 Mar. 10 a/2 The left fielder got the ball back rapidly. The relay was good.
1970 J. Bouton Ball Four vi. 315 When I was a kid I didn't trust anybody else to make a play. I used to run into the outfield for relays and throw the ball home.
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a. Electronics. An electrical or electromechanical switch, typically incorporating an electromagnet, which is actuated by a signal in one circuit to open or close another circuit; (Telecommunications) one which enables a weak signal to activate another circuit with a stronger signal, typically used in telegraphy to allow onward transmission or to activate a recording instrument (cf. repeater n. 4d). Also in extended use.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > repeater or relay
relay1838
repeater1850
translator1855
repeating coil1886
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > circuit > [noun] > connection or disconnection > device for
relay1907
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > controlling device or process > [noun] > relay
reed1875
relay1907
reed relay1914
1838 E. Davy Brit. Patent 7719 (1857) 14 I claim the mode of making telegraphic signals or communications from one distant place to another by the employment of relays of metallic circuits brought into operation by electric currents.
1858 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 6 353/2 The real telegraphic receiving instrument is the relay, which has for its duty to establish and break the local circuit of the recording instrument.
1907 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 363 The difficulty is overcome by using the partly exhausted current to move a special kind of ‘switch’, or key, called a ‘relay’.
1935 I. T. Monseth & P. H. Robinson Relay Syst. i. 1 Protective relays in modern power systems..initiate the operation of devices to isolate transmission circuits and apparatus when trouble develops.
1956 G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines x. 211 For adding numbers, three sets of relays are used, designated as A, B, and C; they are wired together so that, if two numbers are sent respectively to A and B, the sum of the two numbers appears on C.
1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 200/2 The sensory relay region in the thalamus.
2004 OnEarth Summer 16/2 When a relay trips out a line on our system, operators hear an alarm and see lights flashing on the map.
b. Telecommunications. An installation, device, or satellite which receives, amplifies, and retransmits radio signals so that they can be received over a larger area; = repeater n. 4f. Frequently attributive.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > relay or repeater
relay station1838
repeater1905
relay1906
1906 S. R. Bottone tr. D. Mazzotto Wireless Telegr. & Telephony vii. 212 Repeaters... They are relays..employed to cause the auxiliary station in which they are placed to repeat automatically the arriving message, picking up the necessary current from a fresh source placed in the repeating station.
1921 Wireless World 10 Dec. 575/1 These relay routes enable the transmission of personal messages from coast to coast, and from the Canadian border to the Mexican border.
1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 26/3 The engineers of the British Broadcasting Company will employ a wireless relay across the Thames.
1966 Electronics 14 Nov. 47 The company has developed an antenna that allows a plane, say flying over North America, to communicate with a relay satellite orbiting about the equator.
1975 D. G. Fink Electronics Engineers' Handbk. xxii. 61 The communications satellite is a radio relay, consisting of a receiver and transmitter.
2003 J. Ross Bk. of Wi-Fi xi. 166 The same router that relays the network to a second radio can also provide network service to the building where the relay is located.
c. Broadcasting. A radio or (less commonly) television transmission or programme which has been relayed; a live broadcast. Also: an instance or occasion of relaying a programme.
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society > communication > broadcasting > radio broadcasting > [noun] > types of
relay1925
airplay1964
society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > types of
reaction1917
relay1925
jab1932
read-out1959
squirt1968
1925 Times 17 Dec. 28/1 At midnight the second relay came through from Berne. This was not more than a moderately good transmission.
1929 Radio Times 8 Nov. 395/3 We were testing all the arrangements for the Schneider Trophy relay, making sure that the loud-speaker system at various points round the coast could pick up our broadcast.
1929 B.B.C. Year-bk. 1930 383 Listeners can..expect to find a number of relays of Central European stations included in the British programmes.
1981 Times 30 July 5/2 Millions of West German citizens watched the four-hour television relay of the wedding.
1998 What Hi-Fi? May 73/1 Greater openness and presence wouldn't go amiss, especially with those demo-quality Radio 3 concert relays and recordings.
5. Bridge. In full relay bid. A low (usually minimum) bid intended to provide the bidder's partner with an opportunity to supply information about his or her hand through further bidding. Also attributive, as relay system, etc.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > call > bidding > bid > other types of bid
ask1872
overcall1890
rescue bid1912
game-goer1913
reverse bid1915
denial1916
rebid1916
overbid?1917
rescue?1917
under-call1923
jump1927
invitation1928
score-bid1928
approach1929
pre-empt1929
one-over-one1931
response1931
cue-bid1932
psychic1932
asking bid1936
reverse1936
shut-out1936
under-bid1945
controlled psychic1959
relay bid1959
raise1964
psych1965
multi1972
splinter bid1977
1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 183 The relay method is used in some systems played by European teams. In certain sequences the responder does not try to give a picture of his own hand but makes a series of relay-bids at the lowest level so that he can learn more about his partner's hand.
1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott Official Encycl. Bridge 452/1 Relay, a minimum bid unrelated to the bidder's hand, aimed simply at keeping the bidding open so that the bidder's partner can describe his hand.
1980 Times 12 July 7/4 After One Club—One Diamond—One Heart—the usual rebid by responder is One Spade. This is a ‘relay’ bid, asking opener to clarify his hand.
1993 Bridge Nov. 16/1 Uncontested auctions have lots of relays for shape, range and controls.
2000 B. Shenkin Playing Bridge Legends xvii. 181 Unfortunately for her, she did not realize that the relay system had just located a 5-4 club fit.
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C1. General attributive and objective.
a. In sense 3b, as relay baton, relay leg, relay runner, relay squad, relay team, relay walker, etc.
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1894 Boston Daily Advertiser 6 Jan. 2/3 The famous relay team..will run again this season.
1897 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 1 Apr. 3/4 Mike Murphy had the Penn Charter relay squad out on Franklin Field track yesterday.
1929 G. M. Butler Mod. Athletics ii. 8 Names are taken..and made up into senior and junior relay teams of four each.
1952 D. A. Armbruster & L. E. Morehouse Swimming & Diving (ed. 2) x. 204 The swimming take-off in relay racing differs from that in back relay racing.
1970 Times 21 Aug. 11 The team..takes with it the memory that exactly five years ago tomorrow a dropped relay baton cost Britain a place in the inaugural final.
1987 S. Barr & J. Poppy Flame xii. 87 Relay runners timed their handoffs, sprinters bounced up and down in the blocks.
1994 Jet 31 Jan. 50/2 Johnson was unbeaten last year in the 400 and ran a relay leg in the fastest 4 by 400 in history.
2007 Men's Fitness July 30/3 Categories include sprint, advanced and relay triathlons.
b. In sense 3c, as relay man, relay play, etc.
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1903 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 21 Apr. 6/1 Edwards thought he had a clear ticket to the pan, but a relay throw through Gendreau to Bird fixed him for a fine double play.
1905 Washington Post 15 Jan. iii. 9/4 There does not seem to be in these times any outfielder who can line the ball to the plate... It is always a relay play now.
1954 W. Lai Championship Baseball vii. 122 He..has gone out toward right or center field to act as a relay man in case the ball gets by the outfielder.
1994 T. Boswell Cracking Show ix. ii. 204 When the next batter hit a routine double-play ball to second base, Sabo sped toward second, then slid to avoid the relay throw.
2008 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 1 Aug. s2 The left fielder never met a relay man he couldn't overthrow, often did not run out ground balls and jogged after fly balls.
C2.
relay horse n. a horse used in a relay; a reserve horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > fresh or reserve
relay horse1758
remount1803
1758 London Gaz. No. 9788/4 Relay-Horses shall be granted, gratis, to the Officers, who have not enough..to transport their Baggage to the nearest Fortress.
1818 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 447 Couriers and relay-horses by land, and swift-sailing pilot-boats by sea, were flying in all directions.
1911 A. Adams Wells Brothers xviii. 282 At the agreed time, the relay horses were under saddle for the afternoon task.
2002 J. Gommans Mughal Warfare v. 158 There is always a third or relay horse, which is led by an assistant gunner.
relay neuron n. [after French neurone de relais (1901 or earlier)] a neuron that is located between two other neurons in a given neural pathway and transmits impulses between them; an interneuron.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > nerve cell > types of
nerve vesicle1839
brain cell1848
stellate cell1870
Purkinje cell1872
neuroblast1878
touch cell1878
Golgi('s) cell1892
memory cell1892
astrocyte1896
astroblast1897
motor neuron1897
cytochrome1898
stichochrome1899
monaxon1900
basket cell1901
relay neuron1903
internuncial neuron1906
sheath cell1906
motoneuron1908
adjustor1909
satellite1912
microglia1924
oligodendroglia1924
sympathicoblast1927
pituicyte1930
oligodendrocyte1932
sympathoblast1934
sympathogonia1934
interneuron1938
Renshaw cell1954
1903 Philadelphia Med. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 669/2 It descends in the pyramidal tract to the relay neuron (neurone de relais).
1984 Amer. Zoologist 24 723/1 Each dorsal thalamic sensory nucleus contains several morphologically distinct types of neurons. It was classically held that the largest were relay neurons that project to the cerebral cortex.
2013 M. Stevens Sensory Ecol., Behaviour, & Evol. ii. 26/1 The..coupled pacemaker neurons that fire simultaneously..are electrically coupled to spinal relay neurons, followed by spinal motor neurons.
relay race n. Athletics = sense 3b.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > types of race
quarter-mile1611
dead1635
diaulos1706
quarter1779
dead heat1796
match race1804
dash1836
sprint race1836
mile1851
road race1852
time trial1857
decider1858
all-ages1864
rough-up1864
hippodrome1867
distance running1868
team race1869
run-off1873
relay race1878
walk-away1879
title race1905
tortoise race1913
procession1937
stage1943
pace1968
prologue1973
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > relay race
relay race1878
1878 Forest & Stream 9 May 260/1 A novelty in the way of a ‘relay race’ (two miles)..will be open to club teams of four men each.
1898 M. Shearman et al. Athletics (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) (new ed.) x. 301 So popular has this form of racing become that within the last year a number of athletic meetings have been held at which there were a series of these relay races.
1927 W. Deeping Kitty xxiv. 310 To him life was like a relay-race: you snatched the baton from the failing hand of the past, and sped ahead without looking back till some other racer took the baton from you.
2003 Guardian 10 Sept. i. 12/5 Bluetongue virus is being passed ‘like a baton in a relay race’ from one set of midge hosts to another.
relay rack n. Electronics a rack or frame on which relays (sense 4a) are mounted; (in later use) a standardized metal rack designed to hold panels nineteen inches in width on which amplifiers, equipment for computer servers, or other electronic modules can be mounted; cf. rack n.4 6g.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > exchange > exchange equipment
private line1852
bank1884
call-disc1884
howler1886
trunk1889
multiple switchboard1891
rack1893
line switch1898
heat coil1900
relay rack1902
multiple1905
listening key1906
telharmonium1906
wiper1906
preselector1912
line finder1922
rank1924
routiner1928
keysender1929
uniselector1930
wiper arm1933
1902 Amer. Telephone Jrnl. 6 Dec. 327/1 The cable between the main relay racks..is laid up on forms and tied into position.
1930 Proc. IRE 18 1320 The amplifiers are mounted on relay racks and connected by twin lead wire pulled in rigid conduit.
1997 J. Trulove LAN Wiring viii. 156 Relay rack and equipment mounting options are also available for 110 system wiring blocks.
relay station n. a place or thing which acts as or provides a relay (in various senses); (Physiology) a structure in the nervous system which relays impulses.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > radio equipment > [noun] > relay or repeater
relay station1838
repeater1905
relay1906
1838 L. Ritchie Ireland ii. 25 I was never asked for alms on more than two or three occasions, except in the towns, and at the relay stations!
1895 F. Remington Pony Tracks 7 It is over thirty miles to the first relay station or courier's camp.
1923 Radio Times 28 Sept. 2/2 The proposed relay stations..will have a power of 100 to 150 watts.
1980 L. St. Clair Obsessions xvi. 283 A new radio-telephone relay station to link Nice with the cities to the north.
2007 Science 14 Dec. 1711/1 They found that development had gone awry in the lateral geniculate nucleus, a relay station in the brain that receives synaptic inputs directly from retinal neurons.
relay valve n. Engineering a fluid valve in which the main flow is controlled by a diaphragm which is opened and closed by a weep derived from the main flow.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > control(s) > [noun] > valve > others
washer1596
turncock1702
air cock1709
Jack-in-the-box1728
runner1754
stop-valve1829
three-way cock1838
ball valve1839
relief valve1846
poppet valve1851
plunger valve1854
pot-lid1856
reflux valve1857
screw-down1864
mica valve1880
tide flap1884
tube-valve1884
swing-tap1892
relay valve1894
Schrader1895
pilot valve1900
mixer valve1904
spool valve1908
spill valve1922
safety valving1930
three-way1939
1894 H. Hollerith U.S. Patent 526,130 1/2 Fig. 8 is a detail sectional view of one of the relay valves.
1939 R. N. Le Fevre Man. Pract. Gas Fitting xix. 390 The relay valve..is made in a variety of sizes to suit particular gas rates and pipe connections.
2007 PR Newswire (Nexis) 27 Nov. SORL will supply air brake systems including relay valves, hand brake valves, four circuit protection valves and spring brake chambers.
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relayn.2
/ˈriːleɪ/, U.S. /ˈriˌleɪ/ rare.
A shellfish that has been moved from one bed to another.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > oyster
oystereOE
Colchesterc1625
green oyster1667
mangrove oyster1683
pandore1701
Milton1749
sickle-oyster1758
bluepoint1789
native1815
powldoody1819
Red Bank oyster1830
raccoon oyster1834
sauce oyster1851
Portuguese oyster1881
relay1889
Portugal oyster1890
Malpeque1901
Marennes1905
Belon1908
Olympia oyster1908
Pacific oyster1912
Whitstable1940
Portugaise1942
Olympia1961
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Asiphonida > family Ostreidae > member of (oyster) > re-laid
relay1889
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 June 3/1 Not one in twenty knows that the majority of so-called real Whitstable natives are imported relays.
1904 Ann. Rep. Proc. Salmon & Freshwater Fisheries Acts 1903 App. XVI. 84 10400 French ‘relays’, valued at £10 8s., were laid down.
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relayv.1
/rɪˈleɪ/, /ˈriːleɪ/, U.S. /riˈleɪ/, /rəˈleɪ/, /ˈriˌleɪ/ a. intransitive. To release a set of hounds in a chase, esp. after a previous set has passed. Also transitive with the hounds as object. Obsolete.figurative in quot. 1565.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > hunt with hounds [verb (transitive)] > release fresh hounds
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c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 96 (MED) If..þe hunter þat hath relaied see þat þe deer ben likly to falle in daunger..he shuld, whan he haþ relaied, stonde stille in þe fues and halow þe houndis.
c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 96 He shuld lat þe deer passe and go to þe fues..and relaye vpon þe fues [a1425 Digby relaye his houndes vpon þe fues].
1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) xi. sig. QQ.iiijv One starre doth Chiron more relay, the sacrifice in hands He holdes eleuen hath, & deckt with. iiij. the goodly Altare stands.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 188/2 Relay, is to set on fresh Hounds, from a Receit, when the Chase and rest of the Kennel of Hounds be past.
b. transitive. To hunt (a deer) using relays. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [verb (transitive)] > hunt deer > with relays
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c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 98 (MED) And he [sc. the stag] haþ be so wel ronne to and enchased and entreued, and so oft relayed and vannlaied to..þan turne he his lede [read hede] and standeþ at a bay.
2.
a. transitive. To place or arrange (esp. horses or people) in relays; to provide with, or replace by, fresh relays. Now historical and rare.
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society > occupation and work > working > [verb (transitive)] > relieve (a person) at work
spell1595
shift1673
relay1788
to cover for1968
1788 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. II. 427 The emissaries of this Cabal had been relayed (if I may use the expression) on the road.
1832 Z. Allen Pract. Tourist (1833) II. 404 The coach-horses on the principal roads in England are relayed at the end of eight or ten miles.
1883 Daily News 3 Jan. 5/6 Those who watched in the mortuary room were relayed every ten minutes.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Dec. 4/2 Our human ponies were not relayed.
1917 D. C. Roper U.S. Post Office i. 6 The students employed runners who, by operating under prescribed schedules, relayed each other and carried..messages of all kinds.
1986 Monumenta Nipponica 41 379 The prohibition against the skipping of any post station obliged travelers to be relayed at each station: travelers switched palanquins or horses, and goods were transferred to another horse that worked the stretch of road to the following stop.
b. intransitive. To obtain a fresh relay of horses. Now rare.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [verb (intransitive)] > get fresh relay of horses
to change horses1617
relay1829
1829 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 4 [I] relayed with a horse at Winchester that..could only toddle along.
1853 Knickerbocker Feb. 99 When we stopped to relay, we were immediately surrounded by a crowd of ragged beggars.
1906 C. E. Mulford in Outing July 423/2 They relayed at the Barred-Horseshoe and went on their way at the same place.
1921 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Three vi. 77 A hard-riding courier, relaying twice, carried the work of the job-print toward Mesquite.
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a. transitive. To pass on (a message or information).
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society > communication > information > message > send a message or messenger [verb (transitive)] > pass on (a message)
givea1616
relay1859
1859 S. Smith Thirty Years Out of Senate xxiii. 128 (caption) A young boy stands by the table relaying a message to the man.
1943 M. Millar Wall of Eyes xiv. 182 Alice knew from the smile and the voice that Maurice had some kind of bad news and was determined to relay it.
1956 A. H. Compton Atomic Quest ii. 117 These men were thoroughly acquainted with our wartime methods of bomb construction and relayed the techniques to Russia.
1974 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 13 Feb. 5- a/1 President Nixon relayed word through a spokesman Tuesday that he has no plans to visit the Middle East.
1989 P. D. James Devices & Desires xxxi. 220 Oliphant had made it his business to find out something of their past and had relayed the information to Rickards.
2008 M. Blake Comfortably Numb ii. 10 Syd's family informed David Gilmour, who relayed the news to his former bandmates.
b. transitive. To pass on or retransmit (signals received from elsewhere). Also more generally: to transmit.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (transitive)] > transmit or relay
to get through1819
relay1872
transmit1877
uplink1975
downlink1978
1872 Ann. Rep. Secretary War (U.S.) 701 Telegraph line to the summit works very hard, and I had to relay the Mount Washington signals.
1904 Marconigram July 16/2 One may telephone from New York, have the telegraphone record his message and repeat it over another wire to St. Louis, where another machine relays it to Denver.
1923 Glasgow Herald 22 Mar. 9/2 A Birmingham concert was relayed for London with some success.
1961 Lancet 2 Sept. 546/2 Discriminative sensation travels by the lemniscal pathway and is relayed..via the thalamus to the cortex.
1969 Times 16 July 4/1 The television pictures to be relayed back to earth will be taken by a camera fixed on a special attachment.
1992 V. Capel Public Addr. Syst. i. 1 The purpose of a public address system is to relay speech.
2008 J. Schaffler Digital Signage ix. 189 Each time a train pulls into a station, new video updates are instantly relayed via Wi-Fi to an on-board server.
Derivatives
ˈrelayed adj. that has been relayed (in sense 3b).
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1881 Instr. Observers Signal Service (U.S. Army) 218 Whenever a ‘relayed’ message, in course of transmission, is stopped at a relaying office.., the office from which it was originally sent should be promptly notified.
1949 Radio Times 15 July 6/1 [We] presented an electrophone to our aged father on October 5th, 1908... I have a vivid recollection of..listening to a relayed programme.
2005 A. Smith Accidental 292 Their special relayed televised message to her had reached its end.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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