Definitions For Ray
noun
- Cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- Any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
- The syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
- A column of light (as from a beacon)
- A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
- A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
verb
- Expose to radiation
- Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
- Emit as rays
Examples of Ray in a Sentence
- Klieg lights were raying against the nighttime sky at the Hollywood premiere
- Laugh wrinkles rayed out from the corners of the old man's eyes
noun
- Cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- Any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
- The syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
- A column of light (as from a beacon)
- A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
- A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
verb
- Expose to radiation
- Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
- Emit as rays
- Klieg lights were raying against the nighttime sky at the Hollywood premiere
- Laugh wrinkles rayed out from the corners of the old man's eyes
