Definition of rays

"rays" 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

"rays" 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 rays

The rising moon has hid the stars;
Her level rays, like golden bars,
Lie on the landscape green,
With shadows brown between. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

The lively Diamond drinks thy purest rays.
Collected light, compact. [ Thomson ]

Sweet is the memory of distant friends!
Like the mellow rays of the departing sun,
It falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. [ Washington Irving ]

Ideality consists of the rainbow rays of intellect. [ Alfred Mercier ]

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

O love! only a few rays of thy sacred fire radiate in this exhausted world! [ Voltaire ]

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain. [ Margaret Fuller ]

A fair complexion is a disgrace in a sailor; he ought to be tanned, from the spray of the sea and the rays of the sun. [ Ovid ]

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are ground of the Divinity. [ Bailey ]

Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us? [ Goethe ]

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapors, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre. [ Washington Irving ]

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning glasses - to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. [ Swift ]

At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls. [ Calderon ]

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]

rays in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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rays in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Word Growth involving rays

Shorter words in rays

ay ays

ay ray

Longer words containing rays

arrays disarrays

arrays microarrays

arrays subarrays

brays abrays

crays

derays

drays

forays

frays affrays

frays defrays

grays grayscale grayscales

grays graystone graystones

grays stingrays

hoorays

morays

prays outprays

prays reprays

prays sprays flysprays

prays sprays hairsprays

prays sprays resprays

sunrays

trays ashtrays washtrays

trays betrays rebetrays

trays icetrays

trays portrays

trays strays

xrays