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

1. transitive verb. To array.
2. transitive verb. To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
3. noun. Array; order; arrangement; dress.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
7. noun. One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. 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.
10. noun. Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
11. noun. One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
12. noun. To mark with long lines; to streak.
13. noun. To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
14. intransitive verb. To shine, as with rays.
15. noun. Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
16. noun. In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.
17. noun. cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
18. noun. any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
19. noun. the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization

    Synonyms: re

20. noun. a column of light (as from a beacon)

    Synonyms: beam, irradiation, shaft

21. noun. a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

    Synonyms: beam

22. noun. a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
23. noun. (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
24. verb. expose to radiation

    "irradiate food"

    Synonyms: irradiate

25. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: radiate

26. verb. emit as rays

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

Synonyms

re, beam, irradiation, shaft, irradiate, radiate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ray:

ary, ayr, rya, yar

Common word forms

rays, rayed, rayful, raying, rayless

Words from these letters

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