ray
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.
Noun edit
ray (plural rays)
- A beam of light or radiation.
- I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
- (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
- (botany) 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.
- (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
- All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
- (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
- (colloquial) A tiny amount.
- Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- alpha ray
- anticrepuscular ray
- Becquerel calorific ray
- Becquerel ray
- Blu-ray
- calorific ray
- catch some rays
- cosmic ray
- crepuscular ray
- extraordinary ray
- grocery shrink ray
- Gurwitsch ray
- half-ray
- heat-ray
- Lenard ray
- lightray
- medullary ray
- meridional ray
- mitogenetic ray
- number ray
- ray casting
- ray grass
- ray gun
- raying room
- rayless
- raylet
- raylike
- ray marching
- ray of hope
- ray of light
- ray of sunshine
- ray tracer
- ray tracing
- starry ray
- X-ray
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Verb edit
ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)
- (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
- 1889, Robert Browning, letter to Dr. Furnivall:
- I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own.
- (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
- (transitive) To expose to radiation.
- 1928, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, page 219:
- Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.
Translations edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English raye, rayȝe, from Old French raie, from Latin raia, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English reyhhe, reihe, reȝge (“ray, skate”), from Old English reohhe (“ray”).
Noun edit
ray (plural rays)
- A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Etymology 3 edit
Shortened from array.
Verb edit
ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)
- (obsolete) To arrange. [14th–18th c.]
- (now rare) To dress, array (someone). [from 14th c.]
- (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile. [16th–19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […] .
Noun edit
ray (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 50:
- spoyling all her geares and goodly ray
Etymology 4 edit
From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.
Noun edit
ray (plural rays)
- The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms edit
- ar, in Latin and the name of the other Pitman r
Etymology 5 edit
Alternative forms.
Noun edit
ray (plural rays)
Anagrams edit
Ainu edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ray (Kana spelling ラィ)
- (intransitive) to die
Derived terms edit
- rayke (“to kill”)
Bikol Central edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ráy (Basahan spelling ᜍᜌ᜔)
- Alternative form of rahay
Buhi'non Bikol edit
Noun edit
ray
Derived terms edit
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ray ?
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish رای, from French rail.
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
ray (definite accusative rayı, plural raylar)
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References edit
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN