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ray

The correct spelling is ray.

How to pronounce ray

/ɹeɪ/
noun

IPA: /ɹeɪ/

Say it like: Raee

The correct spelling is ray. A beam of light or radiation. For example: "I saw a ray of light through the clouds."

Usage Examples

I saw a ray of light through the clouds.

Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.A beam of light or radiation.
  2. 2.A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  3. 3.One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  4. 4.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. 5.Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

verb

  1. 1.To emit something as if in rays.
  2. 2.To radiate as if in rays.
  3. 3.To arrange.
  4. 4.To dress, array (someone).
  5. 5.To stain or soil; to defile.

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