ray

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[edit] English

Rays from the sun(1)
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[edit] Etymology 1

Via Middle English, from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”).

[edit] Noun

ray (plural rays)

  1. A beam of light or radiation.
    I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
  2. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
  3. A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  4. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
  5. (colloquial) A tiny amount.
    Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from ray (noun)
[edit] Translations
beam of light or radiation
marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail
reinforcing in a fish's fin
mathematics: line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point
colloquial: tiny amount
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[edit] Verb

ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)

  1. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
  2. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays
[edit] Translations
to emit something as if in rays, to radiate as if in rays

[edit] Etymology 2

[edit] Noun

ray

  1. (music) An anglicised spelling of re.

[edit] Etymology 3

From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.

[edit] Noun

ray (plural rays)

  1. The name of the letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

[edit] Related terms

  • ar, in Latin and the name of the other Pitman r

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[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Etymology

From Arabic

[edit] Noun

ray

  1. opinion

[edit] Turkish

[edit] Etymology

From French rail.

[edit] Noun

ray

  1. rail
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