ray
noun
[ reɪ ]
• each of the lines in which light (and heat) may seem to stream from the sun or any luminous body, or pass through a small opening.
• "a ray of sunlight came through the window"
Similar:
beam,
shaft,
streak,
bar,
pencil,
finger,
stream,
gleam,
flash,
glint,
glimmer,
flicker,
twinkle,
shimmer,
• any of a set of straight lines passing through one point.
• "the ray that runs from the centre of the circle to the point of tangency"
• a thing that is arranged radially.
ray
verb
• spread from or as if from a central point.
• "delicate lines rayed out at each corner of her eyes"
Similar:
spread out,
fan out,
radiate out,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French rai, based on Latin radius ‘spoke, ray’. The verb dates from the late 16th century.
ray
noun
• a broad flat marine or freshwater fish with a cartilaginous skeleton, winglike pectoral fins, and a long slender tail. Many rays have venomous spines or electric organs.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French raie, from Latin raia .
ray
noun
• (in tonic sol-fa) the second note of a major scale.
Origin:
Middle English re, representing (as an arbitrary name for the note) the first syllable of resonare, taken from a Latin hymn (see solmization).
