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Relay   /rˈilˌeɪ/   Listen
Relay

noun
1.
The act of passing something along from one person or group to another.
2.
A crew of workers who relieve another crew.
3.
A fresh team to relieve weary draft animals.
4.
A race between teams; each member runs or swims part of the distance.  Synonym: relay race.
5.
Electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit.  Synonym: electrical relay.
verb
(past & past part. relaid; pres. part. relaying)
1.
Pass along.
2.
Control or operate by relay.



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"Relay" Quotes from Famous Books



... still supposed to favour the war, Ferdinand of Naples did not dare to oppose the enthusiasm of his subjects, and the demand that a Neapolitan contingent should be sent to Lombardy. The first relay of troops actually started, but the generals had secret orders to take the longest route, and to lose ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
... system of track-laying. I met a railway expert on the boat going out who had been to England to inspect officially the laying of a railway, and he assured me that if they were to take up all the tracks in America and relay them in our way it would financially break them, enormously rich as the railway kings of ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... Paris from the frontier of the north is but 143 miles at the most, the city would have no need of any intermediate station in order to communicate with the various places of the said frontier. Langres would serve as a relay between Paris and the frontier of the northeast. For the places of the southeast it would require at least two relays, Lyons ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 819 - Volume XXXII, Number 819. Issue Date September 12, 1891 • Various
... we talk?" asked Marcus Ancyrus, the veteran in this small crowd. He himself had been silent for the past ten minutes, doing full justice to this second relay ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... I persisted, "why do this thing by a relay system? I don't want any famishing gentleman in this place to go practically unmarmaladed at breakfast because I am using the waiter to conduct preliminary negotiations with a third party in regard ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb


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