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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



... their way. The dew was again beginning to gather when, well to the south, they approached the bordering hills that concealed the site of Sioux Falls settlement. Then for the first time since they began that last relay Landor gave ...
— Where the Trail Divides • Will Lillibridge
... repress as he recalled his reception at Brunn. In the Emperors' suite were the picked young orderly officers of the Guard and line regiments, Russian and Austrian. Among them were grooms leading the Tsar's beautiful relay horses covered with ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... through a very bad and dangerous country, but the emergency was great and I concluded to try it. I therefore started promptly from Three Crossings without more than a moment's rest. I pushed on with the usual rapidity, entering every relay station on time, and accomplished the round trip of three hundred and twenty-two miles back to Red Buttes without a single mishap and on time. This stands on the records as being the longest Pony Express journey ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... I know he did. That's how he got inside our screens. He came inside faster than the warning message could relay back the information. Didn't you see him accelerate to an impossible speed in an impossible time? Didn't you see how he just vanished as he exceeded the speed of light, and stopped reflecting it? That ship was no ship ...
— The Ultimate Weapon • John Wood Campbell
... plan of campaign was to engineer a successful retreat into Montana and there form a junction with the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes under Sitting Bull. There was a relay scouting system, one set of scouts leaving the main body at evening and the second a little before daybreak, passing the first set on some commanding hill top. There were also decoy scouts set to trap Indian scouts of the ...
— Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman


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