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rays
1. n. plural of ray
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

Example Sentences

We skirted green hills, which sparkled in the first rays of sunshine.  In the middle of the day, the sun sent its warm, pleasant rays into the valley, which transformed the expressions on the faces of the farmers we met along the way.  There was in the centre of the circle, a column made out of copper that supported a crystal egg. And because the sun shone on it, rays of light shot from all sides of the egg.  The first rays of the sun tore the cloudy veil and the outline of a rocky island appeared.  Don't worry in the least. It's nothing more than a bad memory that will vanish with the first rays of the sun.

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