| ray | |
| 1. n. A beam of light or radiation. | |
| I saw a ray of light through the clouds. | |
| 2. n. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin. | |
| 3. n. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. | |
| 4. n. (botany) 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. n. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen. | |
| 6. n. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point. | |
| 7. n. (colloquial) A tiny amount. | |
| Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope. | |
| 8. v. To emit something as if in rays. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays. | |
| 10. n. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail. | |
| 11. v. (obsolete) To arrange. | |
| 12. v. (now rare) To dress, array (someone). | |
| 13. v. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile. | |
| 14. n. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand. | |
| 15. n. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress. | |
| 16. n. (music) alternative form of re | |
