RELAY
What does "RELAY" mean?
To pass something along, or a device or team that passes on a signal, task, or baton.
Meanings
- To receive and pass on information, a message, or a signal. Please relay my apologies to the rest of the team.
- A race in which team members take turns covering parts of the distance, passing a baton. Their anchor leg won the 4x100 relay by a stride.
- An electrically operated switch that uses a small current to control a larger one. A faulty relay kept the headlights from switching off. technical
Did you know?
- Long before relay races or electrical relays, the word named the fresh hunting hounds and horses posted along a trail to take over from exhausted ones - the original 'passing of the baton.'
Word origin
From Old French 'relai', a set of fresh hounds or horses kept to take over a chase, from 'relaier' ('to leave behind, change horses'), from 're-' plus 'laier' ('to leave').
Remember it
RE-LAY: you LAY the message down for the next runner, then they re-lay it onward.
A little poem
The baton's warm where someone's grip has been-
you carry trust, then hand the trust to them.
couplet
What it teaches
What you carry was never only yours; the point is the clean handoff, not the lonely sprint.
Quick facts
What does RELAY mean?
To pass something along, or a device or team that passes on a signal, task, or baton.
Is RELAY a valid word?
Yes — RELAY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is RELAY?
RELAY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does RELAY come from?
From Old French 'relai', a set of fresh hounds or horses kept to take over a chase, from 'relaier' ('to leave behind, change horses'), from 're-' plus 'laier' ('to leave').
What can RELAY teach us?
What you carry was never only yours; the point is the clean handoff, not the lonely sprint.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.