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Ray

noun

A column of light (as from a beacon). Synonyms: beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light.

A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence.

(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point.

A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation. Synonyms: beam, electron beam.

The syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization. Synonym: re.

Any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish.

Cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins.

verb

(past & past part. rayed; pres. part. raying)

Emit as rays.

Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center. Synonym: radiate. "This plants radiate spines in all directions"

Expose to radiation. Synonym: irradiate.

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"Ray" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the tapestry, I found myself in a dark recess or passage, at the end of which a ray of light from the lamp showed me a closed door. I listened, and heard on the other side of the door a shouting voice, accompanied by an extraordinary rumbling and whistling sound, traveling backward and forward, ...

— The Law and the Lady • Wilkie Collins

... that the sun was shining brightly outside. No ray of light pierced the blackness of the cavern, and the dead silence was unbroken by the first sound, though at that very moment the Gallas and the Abyssinians were probably waging a bloody battle almost ...

— The River of Darkness - Under Africa • William Murray Graydon

... of a rising ground, on which grew a grove of magnificent beeches, their large silvery boles rising majestically like columns into a lofty vaulting of branches, covered above with tender green foliage. Here and there the shade beneath was broken by the gilding of a ray of sunshine on a lower twig, or on a white trunk, but the floor of the vast arcades was almost entirely of the russet brown of the fallen leaves, save where a fern or holly bush made a spot of green. At the foot of the slope lay a stretch of pasture ground, some parts covered ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... perfection; where, in the deluge represented by Bonati, one sees the eagle drooping from a weight of rain, majestic in his distress, and looking up to the luminous part of the picture as if hoping to discover some ray of that sun he never shall see again. How characteristic! how tasteful is the expression! The famous Virgin and Child too, so ...

— Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I • Hester Lynch Piozzi

... bench for an hour or two before his eyes became sufficiently accustomed to the darkness to see anything, for but the feeblest ray of light made its way through so small a loophole in a wall of such ...

— The Cornet of Horse - A Tale of Marlborough's Wars • G. A. Henty

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