ray

noun

1. A beam of light or radiation.

   “I saw a ray of light through the clouds.”

   “Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.”

2. A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
3. One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
4. 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.
5. (obsolete)Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

   “All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.”

6. A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
7. Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.
8. (obsolete, uncountable)Array; order; arrangement; dress.

   “spoyling all her geares and goodly ray”

9. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
10. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of re.

verb

1. (transitive)To emit something as if in rays.

   “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.”

2. (intransitive)To radiate as if in rays.
3. (transitive)To expose to radiation.

   “Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.”

4. (obsolete)To arrange.
5. (archaic)To dress, array (someone).
6. (obsolete)To stain or soil; to defile.

   “From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […].”

name

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
2. A diminutive of the male given names Raymond, Rayane, or Rayan, also used as a formal given name.

   “-, or Raymond if it happened to be a boy, choosing it in the hope that a name like Ray would make a boy's life easier.”

   “Although the name on his birth certificate was spelled "Ray", Ray said he was originally given the name "Rae" after Rae Williams, a cousin on his father's side.”

   “Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood linked the drunken driving and distracted driving issues in his statement announcing the meeting.”

3. A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, more often spelled Rae.

   “'Rachel told me―' 'Call her Ray. She hates Rachel.'”

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10. A river in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, which joins the River Cherwell.
11. A river in north Wiltshire, England, which joins the Thames.
12. A city near Tehran, Iran.
13. (historical)A region and satrapy in ancient Iran located between the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges and the Dasht-e Kavir desert; Rhagiana.