RAY


Meaning of RAY in English

vi to shine, as with rays.

2. ray ·vt to array.

3. ray ·noun array; order; arrangement; dress.

4. ray ·noun to mark with long lines; to streak.

5. ray ·noun to send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.

6. ray ·noun one of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

7. ray ·vt to mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.

8. ray ·noun any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, ·etc.

9. ray ·noun one of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

10. ray ·noun 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.

11. ray ·noun in a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. ·see skate.

12. ray ·noun sight; perception; vision;

— from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

13. ray ·noun one of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. ·see half-ray.

14. ray ·noun 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.

15. ray ·noun 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.

xvi. ray ·noun 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.

Webster English vocab.      Английский словарь Webster.