| 单词 | relay |
| 释义 | relay (once / 939 pages) 1nv 2nv If you relay something, you pass it to another person. When you relay the information that your pet monkey is known to attack people to your neighbors, you should bring a basket of muffins. Relay comes from the French relayer, which means "to change hounds on a hunt." It still has that sense of something passed in motion. You might run a relay race — each team member carries a baton part-way, then passes it on. We relay news, as when you take a message from Sally and relay it to Harry. A fresh work crew is a relay, and so is an electrical switch that can turn a second circuit on. WORD FAMILYrelay: relayed, relaying, relays USAGE EXAMPLESNo, it was a story which appeared to grow wilder somewhere along the relay chain of information from local media to international news. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) I relayed the details to my best friend, who was sympathetic. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Her phone rang with calls from relatives from her village, but she couldn’t bring herself to relay the news. The Guardian(Dec 24, 2016) 1 1n the act of passing something along from one person or group to another the relay was successful Hyper handing over, passage the act of passing something to another person 2n a race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance Syn|Hypo|Hyper relay race torch race (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner to the next race a contest of speed 3n a crew of workers who relieve another crew Hyper shift a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time 4n a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals Hyper team two or more draft animals that work together to pull something 5v pass along 2Please relay the news to the villagers Hyper communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across transmit information 1n electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit Syn|Hyper electrical relay electrical device a device that produces or is powered by electricity 2v control or operate by relay Hyper control, operate handle and cause to function |
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