Relay
noun
A group of people or animals which continue an activity after the previous group has finished.
The workers operate in relay to keep the factory running 24 hours a day.
Often appears as...
- relay race
- relay team
noun
A device which detects an electrical fault and then automatically stops the electricity supply.
The relay on the circuit board tripped and cut the power supply.
Often appears as...
- circuit relay
- power relay
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To pass information or a message from one person to another.
I relayed the boss's instructions to the rest of the team.
Often appears as...
- relay a message
- relay information
noun
A type of sports race in which different members of a team run or swim part of the distance.
Our team won the 4x100 metres relay at the athletics competition.
Often appears as...
- relay race
- relay team
noun
A group of people or animals which continue an activity after the previous group has finished.
The workers operate in relay to keep the factory running 24 hours a day.
Often appears as...
- relay race
- relay team
noun
A device which detects an electrical fault and then automatically stops the electricity supply.
The relay on the circuit board tripped and cut the power supply.
Often appears as...
- circuit relay
- power relay
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To pass information or a message from one person to another.
I relayed the boss's instructions to the rest of the team.
Often appears as...
- relay a message
- relay information
noun
A type of sports race in which different members of a team run or swim part of the distance.
Our team won the 4x100 metres relay at the athletics competition.
Often appears as...
- relay race
- relay team
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Teamwork Context
The term often involves teamwork where members replace one another to achieve a continuous goal.
The emergency room staff worked in relay to provide around-the-clock care.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-stop Activity
Implies an activity doesn't stop, as each group 'relays' to extend its duration without interruption.
The convenience store remains open in relay by its workers.
Pro Tip 1/2Teamwork Context
The term often involves teamwork where members replace one another to achieve a continuous goal.
The emergency room staff worked in relay to provide around-the-clock care.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-stop Activity
Implies an activity doesn't stop, as each group 'relays' to extend its duration without interruption.
The convenience store remains open in relay by its workers.
Pro Tip 1/2Teamwork Context
The term often involves teamwork where members replace one another to achieve a continuous goal.
The emergency room staff worked in relay to provide around-the-clock care.
Pro Tip 2/2Non-stop Activity
Implies an activity doesn't stop, as each group 'relays' to extend its duration without interruption.
The convenience store remains open in relay by its workers.
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Video examples
How do we smell? - Rose...
Each of those signals goes first to a relay center in the middle of the cerebral hemisphere and then out to other regions of the brain. But smell, because it evolved before most of your other senses, takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water.
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What's normal anxiety --...
which all animals have to some degree, to help protect us from predators. Anxiety starts in the brain's amygdala, a pair of almond-sized nerve bundles that alert other areas of the brain to be ready for defensive action. Next, the hypothalamus relays the signal, setting off what we call the stress response in our body.
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How to make your writing...
So what are some techniques you can use to achieve this in your own writing? Limit the point of view. Instead of an omniscient narrator who can see and relay everything that happens, tell the story from the perspective of the characters. They may start off knowing just as little as the audience does,
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The benefits of a good...
which serve as relay stations of memory formation. And the different stages of sleep have been shown to help consolidate different types of memories. During the non-REM slow-wave sleep, declarative memory is encoded into a temporary store in the anterior part of the hippocampus.
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Todd Humphreys: How to...
accurate within two feet anywhere on the globe, but we know that in the world of nonfiction, the GPS dot is impossible, right? For one thing, GPS doesn't work indoors, and for another, they don't make devices quite this small, especially when those devices have to relay
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Returning to Fukushima PIPE...
To honor the region, the torch relay will begin in Fukushima. So I've been in Fukushima for a few days now. And it seems that with every tragic story, there's also a story about hope, and people really trying and fighting to bring this place back to life.
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Where do new words come...
and others die off. Some relay information, some interpret it, but the way these words are created and the journey they take to become part of our speech tells us a lot about our world and how we communicate within it.
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The dawn of the age of...
But for decades, we've explored from a seat behind screens and keyboards. Now, we're leaping over all of that, over the giant antennas and the relay satellites and the vastness between worlds
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Let’s put the romance...
what has been the most profound moment of your professional life mine was in 2004 when I was working as a press chief for the Athens Olympic torch relay traveling with a flame to multiple
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Deep Sea Diving For Food...
much quicker on the other hand the chicks are growing fast and are a lot more demanding the parents are in a constant relay race to keep young stomachs filled
Video examples
How do we smell? - Rose...
Each of those signals goes first to a relay center in the middle of the cerebral hemisphere and then out to other regions of the brain. But smell, because it evolved before most of your other senses, takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water.
Video examples
What's normal anxiety --...
which all animals have to some degree, to help protect us from predators. Anxiety starts in the brain's amygdala, a pair of almond-sized nerve bundles that alert other areas of the brain to be ready for defensive action. Next, the hypothalamus relays the signal, setting off what we call the stress response in our body.
Video examples
How to make your writing...
So what are some techniques you can use to achieve this in your own writing? Limit the point of view. Instead of an omniscient narrator who can see and relay everything that happens, tell the story from the perspective of the characters. They may start off knowing just as little as the audience does,
Video examples
The benefits of a good...
which serve as relay stations of memory formation. And the different stages of sleep have been shown to help consolidate different types of memories. During the non-REM slow-wave sleep, declarative memory is encoded into a temporary store in the anterior part of the hippocampus.
Video examples
Todd Humphreys: How to...
accurate within two feet anywhere on the globe, but we know that in the world of nonfiction, the GPS dot is impossible, right? For one thing, GPS doesn't work indoors, and for another, they don't make devices quite this small, especially when those devices have to relay
Video examples
Returning to Fukushima PIPE...
To honor the region, the torch relay will begin in Fukushima. So I've been in Fukushima for a few days now. And it seems that with every tragic story, there's also a story about hope, and people really trying and fighting to bring this place back to life.
Video examples
Where do new words come...
and others die off. Some relay information, some interpret it, but the way these words are created and the journey they take to become part of our speech tells us a lot about our world and how we communicate within it.
Video examples
The dawn of the age of...
But for decades, we've explored from a seat behind screens and keyboards. Now, we're leaping over all of that, over the giant antennas and the relay satellites and the vastness between worlds
Video examples
Let’s put the romance...
what has been the most profound moment of your professional life mine was in 2004 when I was working as a press chief for the Athens Olympic torch relay traveling with a flame to multiple
Video examples
Deep Sea Diving For Food...
much quicker on the other hand the chicks are growing fast and are a lot more demanding the parents are in a constant relay race to keep young stomachs filled
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Timothy F. Cahill
Australian Athlete
Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.
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Taylor Steele
American Director
When I started, I was 18 and really into punk rock and just wanted the action. Over the years, I've gravitated towards the travel and experience around surfing and trying to relay that feeling. Going forward, I'm interested in story-driven and personality-driven themes.
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Eli Roth
American Director
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
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Grant Imahara
American Celebrity
Drones can be a huge advantage to agencies fighting natural disasters. They can launch immediately, gather vital data about an emergency situation, and help efficiently relay that information to all agencies involved, all without putting further lives at risk.
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Seal
English Musician
You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
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Todd English
American Chef
Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.
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David Draiman
American Musician
I think that we're more united than the media would care to admit. We're not as divided as the perception would relay - not in the United States, not anywhere, really, in the world.
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Emma McKeon
Australian Athlete
I've always been a proud member of all the relays - and we've had such success in that - but to get that gold individually, I'm very proud and very honored.
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LeBron James
American Basketball Player
I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.
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Saul Alinsky
American Activist
History is a relay of revolutions.
Quote examples
Timothy F. Cahill
Australian Athlete
Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.
Quote examples
Taylor Steele
American Director
When I started, I was 18 and really into punk rock and just wanted the action. Over the years, I've gravitated towards the travel and experience around surfing and trying to relay that feeling. Going forward, I'm interested in story-driven and personality-driven themes.
Quote examples
Eli Roth
American Director
Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.
Quote examples
Grant Imahara
American Celebrity
Drones can be a huge advantage to agencies fighting natural disasters. They can launch immediately, gather vital data about an emergency situation, and help efficiently relay that information to all agencies involved, all without putting further lives at risk.
Quote examples
Seal
English Musician
You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
Quote examples
Todd English
American Chef
Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.
Quote examples
David Draiman
American Musician
I think that we're more united than the media would care to admit. We're not as divided as the perception would relay - not in the United States, not anywhere, really, in the world.
Quote examples
Emma McKeon
Australian Athlete
I've always been a proud member of all the relays - and we've had such success in that - but to get that gold individually, I'm very proud and very honored.
Quote examples
LeBron James
American Basketball Player
I love watching track and field - the 4x100 relay, the 100-(meter) dash, the 200-(meter) dash. To see what they're able to do, I love watching that.
Quote examples
Saul Alinsky
American Activist
History is a relay of revolutions.
Example 1 of 10
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