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Defenition of the word ray

    • Defenition of the word ray

      • A historic city in the province of Tehran, Iran.
      • Ray was a town in Arizona. There was a huge copper mine there, which grew so big that all the people in the town had to leave.
      • A city in Williams County in North Dakota in the United States.
      • A male name.
      • An animal of the superorder Batoidea of cartilaginous fishes, containing more than 500 described species in thirteen families.
      • Stream of particles or electromagnetic waves.
      • An idealized narrow beam of light.
      • To emit as rays.
      • To expose to radiation.
      • a column of light (as from a beacon)
      • expose to radiation; "irradiate food"
      • send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness"
      • extend like the radii of a circle
      • 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 rods in the fin of a fish
      • a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
      • (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
      • emit as rays
      • the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
      • a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
      • extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiates spines in all directions"
      • emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"
      • any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
      • expose to radiation
      • extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

    Synonyms for the word ray

      • beam
      • beam of light
      • flicker
      • gleam
      • glimmer
      • hint
      • irradiate
      • light beam
      • radiate
      • ray of light
      • re
      • shaft
      • shaft of light
      • spark
      • trace

    Similar words in the ray

      • ray
      • ray's
      • rayburn
      • rayburn's
      • rayleigh
      • rayleigh's
      • raymond
      • raymond's
      • raymundo
      • raymundo's
      • rayon
      • rayon's
      • rays

    Meronymys for the word ray

      • fin

    Hyponyms for the word ray

      • bombard
      • cathode ray
      • crampfish
      • devilfish
      • eagle ray
      • electric ray
      • gamma ray
      • giant devil ray
      • guitarfish
      • heat ray
      • high beam
      • laser beam
      • low beam
      • manta
      • manta ray
      • moon ray
      • moon-ray
      • moonbeam
      • numbfish
      • particle beam
      • sawfish
      • skate
      • stingray
      • sunbeam
      • sunray
      • torpedo
      • x-ray

    Hypernyms for the word ray

      • breathe
      • elasmobranch
      • electromagnetic radiation
      • electromagnetic wave
      • emit
      • extend
      • fish
      • give off
      • give out
      • go
      • lead
      • light
      • line
      • nonparticulate radiation
      • pass
      • pass off
      • pedicel
      • pedicle
      • process
      • run
      • selachian
      • solfa syllable
      • spine
      • treat
      • tune
      • vector
      • visible light
      • visible radiation

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