Dictionary Entry
ray
ray is a 3-letter English word with 26 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To array. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 5 · 26 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To array.
- 2transitive verb
To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
- 3noun
Array; order; arrangement; dress.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
- 7noun
One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
- 11noun
One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
- 12noun
To mark with long lines; to streak.
- 13noun
To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
- 14intransitive verb
To shine, as with rays.
- 15noun
Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
- 16noun
In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.
- 17noun
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- 18noun
any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
- 19noun
the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
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- 20noun
a column of light (as from a beacon)
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- 21noun
a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
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- 22noun
a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- 23noun
(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
- 24verb
expose to radiation
"irradiate food"
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- 25verb
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"
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- 26verb
emit as rays
"That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"
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