ray

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/ɹeɪ/

noun 9name 7verb 6

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(noun.)

ADJ

powerful | bright | harmful

dying, last

The last rays of sunlight disappeared behind the mountains as evening fell.

cathode, cosmic, gamma, heat, infrared, light, ultraviolet, X- | the moon's, the sun's

VERB + RAY

emit, give off, send out

The sun emits powerful rays that can burn your skin in just minutes.

expose sb/sth to

block, filter out, protect/shield sb/sth from

The window blinds blocked the bright morning rays from entering the bedroom.

bend, catch, deflect, reflect

The mirror reflected the sun's rays across the entire wall of the room.

RAY + VERB

filter through sth, pass through sth, penetrate sth, travel

Sunlight rays penetrated the thick clouds and warmed our faces.

hit sth

A bright ray of sunlight hit the window and lit up the entire room.

damage sth

The sun's harmful rays damaged the paint on our old car.

PREP

in the ~s of

The children played happily in the rays of the afternoon sun.

PHRASES

a ray of light/sunlight/sunshine, the rays of the sun

Definitions

noun

A beam of light or radiation.

I saw a ray of light through the clouds.

Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.

A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.

One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.

Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.

verb

To emit something as if in rays.

I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own.

To radiate as if in rays.

To expose to radiation.

Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.

noun

Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.

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Synonyms

noun — the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any majo

noun — a column of light (as from a beacon)

noun — a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiatio

beam

verb — expose to radiation

irradiate

verb — extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward to

radiate

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

ray of light

A path that a photon or a group of photons takes through space, visible as a column of light.

Example Bank

I saw a ray of light through the clouds.

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Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.

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All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.

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Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.

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From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […].

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, ray is marked as obsolete, archaic, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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