Definition of Ray

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Definition of Ray

Ray

To array.

To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.

Array; order; arrangement; dress.

One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.

A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.

One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.

One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.

Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.

To mark with long lines; to streak.

To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.

To shine, as with rays.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

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Ray Quotations

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
Bear Bryant

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.
Dennis Miller

Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
Van Morrison

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.
Ray Charles

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.
Sandra Cisneros

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
Bram Stoker

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
Warren Zevon

Ray Translations

ray in Afrikaans is radio
ray in Dutch is straal, spaak
ray in German is strahl, Schimmer, ausstrahlen, Strahl
ray in Italian is raggio, emettere
ray in Portuguese is raio
ray in Spanish is raya, rayo

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