RELAY

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, set of fresh hounds, from ~en Date: 1651 1. a supply (as of horses) arranged beforehand for successive relief, a number of persons who relieve others in some work , 2. a race between teams in which each team member successively covers a specified portion of the course, one of the divisions of a ~, an electromagnetic device for remote or automatic control that is actuated by variation in conditions of an electric circuit and that operates in turn other devices (as switches) in the same or a different circuit, servomotor , the act of passing along (as a message or ball) by stages, II. transitive verb (~ed; ~ing) see: delay Date: 1788 1. to place or dispose in ~s, to provide with ~s, to pass along by ~s , to control or operate by a ~, III. transitive verb (relaid; -laying) Etymology: re- + 1lay Date: 1757 to lay again