Definition of ray

"ray" in the noun sense

1. beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation

a column of light (as from a beacon)

2. ray

a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

3. ray

mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

4. beam, ray, electron beam

a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

5. re, ray

the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization

6. ray

any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish

7. ray

cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside most swim by moving the pectoral fins

"ray" in the verb sense

1. ray

emit as rays

"That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"

2. radiate, ray

extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

"spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"

"This plants radiate spines in all directions"

3. irradiate, ray

expose to radiation

"irradiate food"

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Quotations for ray

Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]

Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature
Riding on the ray of sight,
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go.
Or for service, or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show. [ Emerson ]

Thou living ray of intellectual fire. [ Falconer ]

How calm - how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms have gone,
When warring winds have died away
And clouds, beneath the dancing ray
Melt off and leave the land and sea,
Sleeping in bright tranquillity. [ Moore ]

When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower;
A watery ray an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between. [ Scott ]

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. [ Gray ]

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. [ George Eliot ]

Mild arch of promise! on the evening-sky
Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray,
Each in the other melting. [ Southey ]

Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
Prosperity conceals his brightest ray,
As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. [ Young ]

Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend;
The conscious moon, through every distant age.
Has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall
On contemplation's eye her purging ray. [ Young ]

His genius quite obscured the brightest ray
Of human thought, as Sol's effulgent beams
At morn's approach, extinguished all the stars. [ R. Wynne ]

How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air.
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain
Breaks the serene heaven:
In full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine
Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Beneath her steady ray
The desert circle spreads,
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night! [ Southey ]

NATO phonetic alphabet
aka. International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet
aka. ICAO phonetic
aka. ICAO spelling alphabet
aka. ITU phonetic alphabet

A Alfa
B Bravo
C Charlie
D Delta
E Echo
F Foxtrot
G Golf
H Hotel
I India
J Juliett
K Kilo
L Lima
M Mike
N November
O Oscar
P Papa
Q Quebec
R Romeo
S Sierra
T Tango
U Uniform
V Victor
W Whiskey
X X-ray
Y Yankee
Z Zulu

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. [ Burns ]

No man can be so entirely evil as to stifle the last ray of light in his soul. [ Körner ]

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new. [ Emerson ]

The soul, ray of Heaven, invisible prisoner, suffers in its dungeon cruel sorrows. [ A. de Musset ]

No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish in himself the last ray of light. [ Th. Körner ]

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots. [ Thackeray ]

The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Joy is the ray of sunshine that brightens and opens those two beautiful flowers, Confidence and Hope. [ E. Souvestre ]

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! the evening beam that smiles the clouds away and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray! [ Byron ]

Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make. [ Hannah More ]

The magic power of love consists in its ennobling whatever its breath touches, like the sun whose golden ray transmutes even thunderclouds into gold. [ Grillparzer ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents - flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. [ Emerson ]

True, the poisonous breath of the world destroys our illusions, but they resuscitate at once when a ray of love falls upon our benumbed hearts, as the warmth of the sun revives the poor flowers withered by the ices of winter. [ De Finod ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre countenance of ordinary nature; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. [ Berz ]

Wit throws a single ray, separated from the rest, - red, yellow, blue, or any intermediate shade, - upon an object; never white light; that is the province of wisdom. We get beautiful effects from wit, - all the prismatic colors, - but never the object as it is in fair daylight. [ Holmes ]

It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament. It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot. [ J. Beaumont ]

ray in Scrabble®

The word ray is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters ray:

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The 55 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In ray

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ray in Words With Friends™

The word ray is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters ray:

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The 57 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In ray

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Words containing the sequence ray

Words that start with ray (8 words)

Word Growth involving ray

Shorter words in ray

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Longer words containing ray

array arrayed disarrayed

array arraying disarraying

array arrays disarrays

array arrays microarrays

array arrays subarrays

array disarray disarrayed

array disarray disarraying

array disarray disarrays

array macroarray

array microarray microarrays

array misarray

array subarray subarrays

bewray

bray abray abrayed

bray abray abraying

bray abray abrays

bray brayed abrayed

bray brayer brayers

bray braying abraying

bray brays abrays

bray chambray

crayfish crayfishes

crayfish crayfishing

crayola

deray derays

dray drayage drayages

dray drayed

dray drayhorse drayhorses

dray draying

dray drayman

dray draymen

dray drays

foray forayed

foray forayer forayers

foray foraying

foray forays

fray affray affrayed

fray affray affrayer affrayers

fray affray affraying

fray affray affrayment affrayments

fray affray affrays

fray defray defrayable

fray defray defrayal defrayals

fray defray defrayed undefrayed

fray defray defrayer defrayers

fray defray defraying

fray defray defrayment defrayments

fray defray defrays

fray frayed affrayed

fray frayed defrayed undefrayed

fray fraying affraying

fray fraying defraying

fray fraying nonfraying

fray frays affrays

fray frays defrays

gray grayed

gray grayer

gray grayest

gray grayfish grayfishes

gray grayflies

gray grayfly

gray grayhair grayhaired

gray grayhound grayhounds

gray graying

gray grayish

gray grayling graylings

gray grayness

gray grayout grayouts

gray grays grayscale grayscales

gray grays graystone graystones

gray grays stingrays

gray graywacke graywackes

gray graywater graywaters

gray stingray stingrays

hooray hoorayed

hooray hooraying

hooray hoorays

moray morays

murray

pray outpray outprayed

pray outpray outpraying

pray outpray outprays

pray prayable

pray prayed outprayed

pray prayed reprayed

pray prayed sprayed resprayed

pray prayer prayerbook prayerbooks

pray prayer prayerful prayerfully

pray prayer prayerful prayerfulness

pray prayer prayerless prayerlessly

pray prayer prayerless prayerlessness

pray prayer prayermaker prayermakers

pray prayer prayermaking

pray prayer prayers sprayers

pray prayer sprayer sprayers

pray praying outpraying

pray praying repraying

pray praying spraying respraying

pray prays outprays

pray prays reprays

pray prays sprays flysprays

pray prays sprays hairsprays

pray prays sprays resprays

pray repray reprayed

pray repray repraying

pray repray reprays

pray spray flyspray flysprays

pray spray hairspray hairsprays

pray spray respray resprayed

pray spray respray respraying

pray spray respray resprays

pray spray sprayboard sprayboards

pray spray sprayed resprayed

pray spray sprayer sprayers

pray spray spraying respraying

pray spray sprayless

pray spray spraylike

pray spray sprayproof

pray spray sprays flysprays

pray spray sprays hairsprays

pray spray sprays resprays

rayed arrayed disarrayed

rayed betrayed rebetrayed

rayed betrayed unbetrayed

rayed brayed abrayed

rayed drayed

rayed forayed

rayed frayed affrayed

rayed frayed defrayed undefrayed

rayed grayed

rayed hoorayed

rayed portrayed

rayed prayed outprayed

rayed prayed reprayed

rayed prayed sprayed resprayed

rayed strayed

rayed xrayed

raying arraying disarraying

raying betraying rebetraying

raying braying abraying

raying draying

raying foraying

raying fraying affraying

raying fraying defraying

raying fraying nonfraying

raying graying

raying hooraying

raying portraying

raying praying outpraying

raying praying repraying

raying praying spraying respraying

raying straying

raying xraying

rayless sprayless

raylike spraylike

rayon crayon crayoned

rayon crayon crayons

rayon rayons crayons

rays arrays disarrays

rays arrays microarrays

rays arrays subarrays

rays brays abrays

rays crays

rays derays

rays drays

rays forays

rays frays affrays

rays frays defrays

rays grays grayscale grayscales

rays grays graystone graystones

rays grays stingrays

rays hoorays

rays morays

rays prays outprays

rays prays reprays

rays prays sprays flysprays

rays prays sprays hairsprays

rays prays sprays resprays

rays sunrays

rays trays ashtrays washtrays

rays trays betrays rebetrays

rays trays icetrays

rays trays portrays

rays trays strays

rays xrays

sunray sunrays

tray ashtray ashtrays washtrays

tray ashtray washtray washtrays

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tray betray betrayed rebetrayed

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tray betray betrayer betrayers

tray betray betraying rebetraying

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tray betray rebetray rebetrayed

tray betray rebetray rebetraying

tray betray rebetray rebetrays

tray icetray icetrays

tray portray portrayable nonportrayable

tray portray portrayal nonportrayal

tray portray portrayal portrayals

tray portray portrayed

tray portray portrayer portrayers

tray portray portraying

tray portray portrays

tray stray astray

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tray stray strayer strayers

tray stray straying

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tray trayful trayfuls

tray trayload trayloads

tray trays ashtrays washtrays

tray trays betrays rebetrays

tray trays icetrays

tray trays portrays

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xray xrayed

xray xraying

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