electrical device such that current flowing through it in one circuit can switch on and off a current in a second circuit, a fresh team to relieve weary draft animals, A number of men who relieve others in carrying on some work, verb_ control or operate by relay, pass along, transitive verb_ To pass along by or as if by relay, To supply with fresh relays, To lay again; to lay a second time, adjective_ (Mach.) Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an auxiliary apparatus put into action by a feeble force but itself capable of exerting greater force, used to control a comparatively powerful machine or appliance

One of a series of relay stations along a fixed route, furnishing fresh riders and horses for the delivery of mail on horseback, A support for a beam in the framework of a building, The slender barlike part of a stud earring that passes through the ear and is secured at the back with a small cap or clip, intransitive verb_ To transfer (an item) to a ledger in bookkeeping, To make the necessary entries in (a ledger), Computers To enter (a unit of information) on a record or into a section of storage, transitive verb_ To denounce publicly, To put up signs on (property) warning against trespassing.