ray
/ɹeɪ/
Dictionary
noun
- A beam of light or radiation.
"I saw a ray of light through the clouds."
- A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
- One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
- 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.
- Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
- A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
- A tiny amount.
"Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope."
verb
- To emit something as if in rays.
- To radiate as if in rays.
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