ray
A beam of light or radiation.
Noun 4 meanings
A beam of light or radiation.
“I saw a ray of light through the clouds.”
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.
Verb 3 meanings
To emit something as if in rays.
To radiate as if in rays.
To expose to radiation.
Etymology
Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.
RAY at a glance
RAY has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (R 1 + A 1 + Y 4) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,035 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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