relay

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of passing something along from one person or group to another

   the relay was successful

2. 2
   verb

   pass along

   Please relay the news to the villagers

3. 3
   noun

   A new set of anything.

   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. 4
   verb

   To pass on or transfer (information).

   The CCTV cameras relay what's going on to the headquarters.

5. 5
   verb

   Alternative spelling of re-lay.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit

7. 7
   noun

   a race between teams

8. 8
   noun

   a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals

Etymology

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.