ray
/ɹeɪ/
A beam of light or radiation; A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin
- plural
- rays
Meanings
- 1
A beam of light or radiation
The ray of reason must expand again.
Tatoeba · Adelpa · CC BY 2.0 FR
In the sky, a ray of light appeared.
Tatoeba · AlanF_US · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin
- 3
One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuranrare
- 4
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; radiusrare
- 5
Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seenrare
- 6
A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a pointrare
- 7
Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tailsrare
- 8
Array; order; arrangement; dressrare
- 9
The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthandrare