Definitions for rayed

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Spelling: [reyd]

IPA: /reɪd/

Rayed is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in rayed (adery).

Definitions for rayed

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.

Idioms

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

adjective

1. having or represented as having emanating rays; radiate:
2. having zoological or botanical rays (often used in combination):

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 rayed

First recorded in 1740-50; ray¹ + -ed³

Examples for rayed

It is impossible to do it before you yourself have been rayed out of existence.

"The first one at the hatch will probably be shot or rayed," grumbled Shanklin.

Two scouts were rayed, though the Galactians did not see this.

They give a rayed, a definite and piquant expression to its movements.

That of the sun was first a rayed star or disc, later a figure, rayed and winged.

The tattered cloak of the beggar will bear him up like the rayed plumes of the angels.

Little lines of geniality formed at their corners and rayed out over his cheeks.

They interwove their ranks, making rainbows of colour; they rayed out in broadening bands of colour from Corona's footstool.

Where the finial joins the roof a rayed sun of cast metal is placed.

Is he to be rayed, or hanged, or drowned, or burned upon a fire of thorns?