ray
[noun]
Synonyms: beam, bar, flash, gleam, shaft

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Contrasted words: gleam, glow, incandescence, shine
Related Words: raylet, pencil, streak, stream, moonbeam, sunbeam

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I. Ray, James Earl
(1928–98) a US man accused of killing Rev. Martin Luther king in 1968 and sentenced to 99 years in prison

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II. Ray, Man
(1890–1976) a US artist and photographer, who was one of the leaders of the Dada and surrealist movements

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III. Ray, Sat‧ya‧jit /ˈsætjədʒɪt/
(1921–92) an Indian film director whose work is well-known and respected all over the world. His films include Pather Panchali (1955) and The Chess Players (1977).

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ray /reɪ/ noun [countable]
[Sense 1-5: Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: rai, from Latin radius; ⇒ radius]
[Sense 6: Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: raie, from Latin raia]

1. a straight narrow beam of light from the sun or moon:
The room darkened as a cloud hid the sun’s rays.
ray of
Rays of light filtered through the trees.

2. a beam of heat, electricity, or other form of energy ⇒ cosmic ray, gamma ray, X-ray¹

3. a ray of hope/light etc something that provides a small amount of hope or happiness in a difficult situation:
a treatment that offers a ray of hope for cancer sufferers

4. a ray of sunshine someone who is happy and makes a difficult situation seem better

5. catch some/a few rays informal to sit or lie in the sun:
Let’s go out and catch a few rays.

6. a large flat sea fish with a long pointed tail

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ray
noun
ADJ. powerful | bright | harmful | dying, last the dying rays of a winter sun
cathode, cosmic, gamma, heat, infrared, light, ultraviolet, X- | the moon's, the sun's
VERB + RAY emit, give off, send out gamma rays given off by plutonium
expose sb/sth to | block, filter out, protect/shield sb/sth from creams which filter out the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays
bend, catch, deflect, reflect Her brooch caught the rays of the setting sun.
RAY + VERB filter through sth, pass through sth, penetrate sth, travel the moon's rays filtering through the trees
hit sth When the sun's rays hit the earth, a lot of heat is reflected back into space.
damage sth Ultraviolet rays damage the skin.
PREP. in the ~s of a stream sparkling in the rays of the June sun
PHRASES a ray of light/sunlight/sunshine, the rays of the sun

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