Ray

Ray  (r), Cape

A promontory of extreme southwest Newfoundland, Canada, on Cabot Strait.

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Ray, John 1627-1705.

English naturalist who was the first to use anatomy to distinguish between specific plants and animals and established "species" as the basic classification of living things.

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Ray, Man 1890-1976.

American artist. A founder of Dada in New York, he is known for his photographs, paintings, sculpture, films, and later experiments with surrealism.

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ray ¹  (r)

n.

1.

a. A thin line or narrow beam of light or other radiant energy.

b. A graphic or other representation of such a line.

2. Radiance; light.

3. A small amount; a trace: not a ray of hope left.

4. Mathematics A straight line extending from a point. Also called half-line.

5. A structure or part having the form of a straight line extending from a point.

6. Any of the bright streaks that are seen radiating from some craters on the moon.

7. Botany

a. A ray flower or the corolla of a ray flower.

b. A branch of an umbel.

8. Zoology

a. One of the bony spines supporting the membrane of a fish's fin.

b. One of the arms of a starfish or other radiate animal.

9. rays Slang Sunshine: Let's go to the beach and catch some rays.

tr.v. rayed, ray·ing, rays

1. To send out as rays; emit.

2. To supply with rays or radiating lines.

3. To cast rays on; irradiate.

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[Middle English, from Old French rai, from Latin radius.]

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ray ²  (r)

n.

Any of various marine fishes of the order Rajiformes or Batoidei, having cartilaginous skeletons, horizontally flattened bodies, and narrow tails.

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[Middle English raye, from Old French raie, from Latin raia.]

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ray ¹

Noun

1. a narrow beam of light

2. any of a set of lines spreading from a central point

3. a slight indication: a ray of hope

4. Maths a straight line extending from a point

5. a thin beam of electromagnetic radiation or particles

6. any of the spines that support the fin of a fish [Old French rai]

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ray ²

Noun

a sea fish related to the sharks, with a flattened body and a long whiplike tail [Old French raie]

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ray ³

Noun

Music (in tonic sol-fa) the second note of any ascending major scale

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ray  (r)

1. A thin line or narrow beam of light or other radiation.

2. A geometric figure consisting of the part of a line that is on one side of a point on the line.

3. See ray flower.

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Ray(s) an order or array of soldiers, 1470.

Examples: rays of chastity, 1634; of comfort, 1781; of divinity, 1674; of genius, 1856; of gold, 1729; of hope, 1838; of horsemen, 1542; of truth, 1732.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ray - a column of light (as from a beacon) beam of light, light beam, ray of light, shaft of light, irradiation, shaft, beam heat ray - a ray that produces a thermal effect high beam - the beam of a car's headlights that provides distant illumination light, visible light, visible radiation - (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" moon ray, moon-ray, moonbeam - a ray of moonlight sunbeam, sunray - a ray of sunlight laser beam - a beam of light generated by a laser low beam - the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance
	2.	ray - a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence pedicel, pedicle - a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
	3.	ray - (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement vector - a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction
	4.	ray - a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation electron beam, beam cathode ray - a beam of electrons emitted by the cathode of an electrical discharge tube electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, nonparticulate radiation - radiation consisting of waves of energy associated with electric and magnetic fields resulting from the acceleration of an electric charge particle beam - a collimated flow of particles (atoms or electrons or molecules)
	5.	ray - the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization re solfa syllable - one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization
	6.	ray - any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish spine - a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin fin - organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
	7.	ray - cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins elasmobranch, selachian - any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates crampfish, electric ray, numbfish, torpedo - any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges sawfish - primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout guitarfish - primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body stingray - large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds eagle ray - powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays manta ray, manta, devilfish - extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned skate - large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
Verb	1.	ray - emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky" give out, emit, give off - give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits"
	2.	ray - extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions" radiate extend, run, lead, pass, go - stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"
	3.	ray - expose to radiation; "irradiate food" irradiate bombard - direct high energy particles or radiation against process, treat - subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"

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ray

noun 1. beam, bar, flash, shaft, gleam

noun 2. trace, spark, flicker, glimmer, hint, indication, scintilla

Translations

ray [reɪ] n → rayo;

ray of hope → (rayo de) esperanza

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ray [reɪ] n → rayon m;

ray of hope → lueur f d'espoir

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ray [reɪ] n → Strahl m;

ray of hope → Hoffnungsschimmer m

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ray [reɪ] n → raggio