What's the difference between salver and tray?

Salver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack.
  • (n.) A salvor.
  • (n.) A tray or waiter on which anything is presented.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At one stage he bred budgerigars, and while travelling back on the train from a fixture against Birmingham City, White and Jones, the two practical jokers in the team, stole uniforms from two waiters in the dining car and appeared in front of him with a lidded serving salver.
  • (2) After the presentations, Sharapova seemed overwhelmed to be holding the silver salver that was first presented in 1886, two years after the first women's championship.
  • (3) A double funk by David Miliband, and an Alan Johnson waiting for others to hand it to him on a silver salver will show the current bunch to be at best cowardly and dithering, and at worst putting career before party.

Tray


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To betray; to deceive.
  • (n.) A small trough or wooden vessel, sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.
  • (n.) A flat, broad vessel on which dishes, glasses, etc., are carried; a waiter; a salver.
  • (n.) A shallow box, generally without a top, often used within a chest, trunk, box, etc., as a removable receptacle for small or light articles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A hypothesis that the unexpected similarity of infection in the two strains was related to differences in rates of contact with the peat trays was not supported by preliminary data on mouse behaviour that revealed equal frequency of contact with peat trays between strains.
  • (2) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
  • (3) Each experiment was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with normal birds and acclimatization birds fitted with harnesses or housed over collection trays and given one of three dietary treatments.
  • (4) With the 40-sample capacity of the sample tray and the last sample stop capability, the automated system produces, for example, 40 20-min chromatograms in approximately 13 hr of unattended operation.
  • (5) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
  • (6) These kinds of impressions and trays did not influence the accuracy of impressions.
  • (7) Only after a screening tray demonstration of cinnamic aldehyde allergy could a relevant history be taken from these patients.
  • (8) The topographies of key-pressing and magazine behavior differed; the food tray was not illuminated.
  • (9) The perforated trays (B and D) reproduce more accurately the distances along the length and the width of the arch than the nonperforated trays (A and C).
  • (10) Waste eluates are collected and drained to the sink by a Teflon tray positioned between the columns and counting tubes, also held by the turntable.
  • (11) Haemagglutination Test (static settling test in plastic microtiter trays) was used and several species of red blood cells were employed.
  • (12) If the eye shielding block cannot be placed at the optimal shielding point, a simple coin placed on the eye lid surface will also reduce the lens dose substantially when a regular eye shielding block is placed on the blocking tray (Lin's coin effect).
  • (13) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
  • (14) Of the 27 patients transplanted at these 3 centers with kidneys received on the basis of ROP tray results, none experienced hyperacute or early irreversible rejection and actual graft survival at 6-48 months is 74%.
  • (15) The always occurring contamination of the impression tray rules out a complete stopping of infection between the patient and the laboratory staff.
  • (16) We present a case in which the failure could be expected because of improper design of the tibial tray.
  • (17) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
  • (18) While the tray lists do not replace formal procedure manuals, they are helpful adjuncts for personnel who prepare the surgical trays.
  • (19) These included an investigation of egg handling techniques from nest box to hatcher; the adoption by the hatchery of plastic setter trays; an improvement to incubator environment; an improvement in the overall hatchery hygiene programme and the introduction of a regular monitoring programme based on the examination of hatchery fluff.
  • (20) Using this method, unknown shoe allergens can be isolated, identified, and added to the shoe test tray of potential allergens.