Definitions for Ray

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Ray ray

Spelling: [rey]

IPA: /reɪ/

Ray is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Ray (ary).

Definitions for Ray

noun

1. a narrow beam of light.
2. a gleam or slight manifestation:
3. a raylike line or stretch of something.
4. light or radiance.
5. a line of sight.
6. Physics, Optics. any of the lines or streams in which light appears to radiate from a luminous body. the straight line normal to the wave front in the propagation of radiant energy. a stream of material particles all moving in the same straight line.
7. Mathematics. one of a system of straight lines emanating from a point. Also called half-line. the part of a straight line considered as originating at a point on the line and as extending in one direction from that point.
8. any of a system of parts radially arranged.
9. Zoology. one of the branches or arms of a starfish or other radiate animal. one of the bony or cartilaginous rods in the fin of a fish.
10. Botany. ray flower. one of the branches of an umbel. vascular ray. (in certain composite plants) the marginal part of the flower head.
11. Astronomy. one of many long, bright streaks radiating from some of the large lunar craters.
12. a prominent upright projection from the circlet of a crown or coronet, having a pointed or ornamented termination.
13. any of numerous elasmobranch fishes, adapted for life on the sea bottom, having a flattened body and greatly enlarged pectoral fins with the gills on the undersides.
14. John, 1627?–1705, English naturalist.
15. Man [man] /mæn/ (Show IPA), 1890–1976, U.S. painter and photographer.
16. Satyajit [suht-yuh-jit] /ˈsʌt yə dʒɪt/ (Show IPA), 1921–92, Indian film director.
17. Cape, a promontory at the SW extremity of Newfoundland, Canada, on the Cabot Strait, at the entrance of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
18. a male given name, form of Raymond.
19. Also, Raye. a female given name, form of Rachel.

Idioms

1. get / grab some rays, Slang. to relax in the sun, especially to sunbathe.

verb (used with object)

1. to send forth in rays.
2. to throw rays upon; irradiate.
3. to subject to the action of rays, as in radiotherapy.
4. Informal. to make a radiograph of; x-ray.
5. to furnish with rays or radiating lines.

verb (used without object)

1. to emit rays.
2. to issue in rays.

Origin of Ray

1300-50; Middle English raie, raye Old French rai Latin radius radius

Examples for Ray

He was glad that ray Minturn had never called him Tip, nor heard him called so.

Thanks to CompStat and strategies added by Police Commissioner ray Kelly, crime continued to decline.

Not a ray of the blessed light of heaven could be suffered to visit the poor lad.

But into his loneliness and despair the girl had came like a ray of light.

"He brought ray Charles to the mix as an influence on rock & roll," E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt once raved.

I have been a ray Harryhausen fan since I was six or seven years old.

And soon all of America got to see ray in the ring with Janay, hitting her with a shot in the jaw.

And ray heard no more complaints about the offending little name.

And ray pressed his thin, wasting hand across his damp forehead.

Jones ruled for ray and he is now back in business, eligible to sign with any NFL club.