blanch vs tray

blanch

verb
  • To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin. 

  • To cause to turn aside or back. 

  • To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten; 

  • To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining) 

  • To grow or become white. 

  • To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach. 

  • To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. 

  • To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together 

  • To use evasion. 

  • To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water. 

  • To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices 

  • To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding 

tray

verb
  • to place (items) on a tray 

  • to slide down a snow-covered hill on a tray from a cafeteria. 

noun
  • A gay trans person, particularly a man (a man who is both transgender and gay) 

  • A type of retail or wholesale packaging for CPUs where the processors are sold in bulk and/or with minimal packaging. 

  • The platform of a truck that supports the load to be hauled. 

  • The items on a full tray. 

  • A notification area used for icons and alerts. 

  • A small, typically rectangular or round, flat, and rigid object upon which things are carried. 

  • A component of a device into which an item is placed for use in the device's operations. 

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