English dictionary
ray
nounAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
noun
- any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
noun
- the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
noun
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
noun
- a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
noun
- a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
noun
- (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
verb
- expose to radiation
verb
- extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
verb
- emit as rays
Example sentences
irradiate food
spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel
This plants radiate spines in all directions
That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky