[
UK
/ɹˈeɪ/
]
[ US /ˈɹeɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹeɪ/ ]
VERB
-
emit as rays
That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky -
extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
This plants radiate spines in all directions
spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel -
expose to radiation
irradiate food
NOUN
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
- a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
- (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
- the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
How To Use ray In A Sentence
- A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
- The one who liked the girls a bit too much. peteyboosh I agree with Pat: composting (Ray should not compost old cheese and tortillas), social cropdusting requires attention at Ediible Geography. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
- The dozen pictures she had shot during a recent bath time -- including a few of Nora rinsing with a handheld shower sprayer -- were, for Cynthia, simply part of the vast photographic record she was keeping of her family's life. Lynn Powell: Pornographer or Soccer Mom?
- Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
- Their prayers were answered and the child was found safe and well.
- Band leader, Ray Blue, is also a composer, arranger and performer on tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.
- Some retailers, including Sears, have already held some "door-buster" early-morning sales, which makes Black Friday -- the day after Thanksgiving that's looked upon as a kick-off to the holiday shopping season -- a little "grayer," he said. Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed
- Figure 13.2 shows a single memory core in what would have been a large array.
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
