“relayed” is a form of
relay
UK /ˌɹiːˈleɪ/ · US /ˌɹiˈleɪ/ noun, verb
Forms relays relaying relayed relaid
- noun (hunting, rare) A new set of hounds.
- noun (now chiefly historical) A new set of horses kept along a specific route so that they can replace animals that are tired.
- noun (by extension) A new set of anything.
- noun A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
- noun (sports) A competition between teams where members of a team take turns completing parts of a course or performing a certain action.
- noun (athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. The most common events are 4×100 meter and 4×400 meter competitions.
- noun (electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
- verb (transitive) To pass on or transfer (information). “The CCTV cameras relay what's going on to the headquarters.”
- verb (obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.
- verb (transitive, now rare) To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another.
- verb (intransitive, now rare) To take on a new relay of horses; to change horses.
Synonyms
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.
Webster’s 1913
- 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. Specifically: (a) A supply of horses placced at stations to be in readiness to relieve others, so that a trveler may proceed without delay. (b) A supply of hunting dogs or horses kept in readiness at certain places to relive the tired dogs or horses, and to continnue the pursuit of the game if it comes that way. (c) A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work.
- noun In various forms of telegrapfhic apparatus, a megnet 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. Relay battery (Elec.), the local battery which is brought into use by the action of the relay magnet, or relay.
Etymology [Pref re- + lay, v.]
Etymology [F. relais (cf. OF. relais relaxation, discontinuance, It. rilascio release, relief, rilasso relay), fr. OF. relaissier to abandon, release, fr. L. relaxare. See Relax.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “relay”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details