Definitions for the word "relay" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A supply of anything arranged beforehand for affording relief from time to time, or at successive stages; provision for successive relief.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
1 fresh set of people etc. Substituted for tired ones. 2 supply of material similarly used. 3 = *relay race. 4 device activating an electric circuit etc. In response to changes affecting itself. 5 a device to receive, reinforce, and transmit a message, broadcast, etc. B relayed message or transmission. v. Receive (a message, broadcast, etc.) And transmit it to others. [french relai from latin laxo: see *lax]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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