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Moderaterays
The correct spelling is rays.
How to pronounce rays
/ɹeɪz/
nounIPA: /ɹeɪz/
Say it like: Ray-s
The correct spelling is rays. 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.A beam of light or radiation.
- 2.A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
- 3.One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
- 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.Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
verb
- 1.To emit something as if in rays.
- 2.To radiate as if in rays.
- 3.To arrange.
- 4.To dress, array (someone).
- 5.To stain or soil; to defile.
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