Meaning of Ray | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Array; order; arrangement; dress.
   obsolete, uncountable
2. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
3. A surname transferred from the nickname.
4. A city near Tehran, Iran.
5. A beam of light or radiation.
6. Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.
7. A diminutive of the male given name Raymond, also used as a formal given name.
8. A region and satrapy in ancient Iran located between the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges and the Dasht-e Kavir desert; Rhagiana.
   historical
9. A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
10. A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, more often spelled Rae.
11. One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
12. A number of places in the United States:
13. A census-designated place in Coosa County, Alabama.
14. 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.
15. A ghost town in Pinal County, Arizona.
16. Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
    obsolete
17. An unincorporated community in Fremont Township, Steuben County, Indiana and Branch County, Michigan.
18. A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
19. A township in Macomb County, Michigan.
20. An unincorporated community in Koochiching County, Minnesota.
21. A minor city in Williams County, North Dakota.
22. A river in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, England, which joins the River Cherwell.
23. A river in north Wiltshire, England, which joins the Thames.

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Examples

“I saw a ray of light through the clouds.”

“Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.”

“All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.”

“spoyling all her geares and goodly ray”

“-, or Raymond if it happened to be a boy, choosing it in the hope that a name like Ray would make a boy's life easier.”

“Although the name on his birth certificate was spelled "Ray", Ray said he was originally given the name "Rae" after Rae Williams, a cousin on his father's side.”

“Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood linked the drunken driving and distracted driving issues in his statement announcing the meeting.”

“'Rachel told me―' 'Call her Ray. She hates Rachel.'”

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