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ray

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See also: Ray, rày, rây, rầy, rẫy, ra'y, and -raþ

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Rapa with y as a placeholder.

Symbol

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ray

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Rapa.

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English

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Rays from the sun (1)
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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.

Noun

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ray (plural rays)

  1. A beam of light or radiation.
    I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
  2. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  3. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  4. (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. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  6. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
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Verb

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ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)

  1. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
    • 1851, George Wilson, The Life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish‎[1], page 186:
      He was one of the unthanked benefactors of his race, who was patiently teaching and serving mankind, whilst they were shrinking from his coldness, or mocking his peculiarities. He could not sing for them a sweet song, or create a “thing of beauty” which should be “a joy for ever,” or touch their hearts, or fire their spirits, or deepen their reverence or their fervour. He was not a Poet, a Priest, or a Prophet, but only a cold, clear Intelligence, raying down pure white light, which brightened everything on which it fell, but warmed nothing—a Star of at least the second, if not of the first magnitude, in the Intellectual Firmament.
    • 1889, Robert Browning, letter to Dr. Furnivall:
      I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own.
  2. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
  3. (transitive) To expose to radiation.
    • 1928, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, page 219:
      Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English raye, rayȝe, from Old French raie, from Latin raia, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English reyhhe, reihe, reȝge (“ray, skate”), from Old English reohhe (“ray”).

Noun

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ray (plural rays)

  2. Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.
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Etymology 3

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Shortened from array.

Verb

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ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)

  1. (obsolete) To arrange. [14th–18th c.]
  2. (now rare) To dress, array (someone). [from 14th c.]
  3. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile. [16th–19th c.]

Noun

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ray (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.

Etymology 4

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From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.

Noun

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ray (plural rays)

  1. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
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  • ar, in Latin and the name of the other Pitman r

Etymology 5

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Alternative forms.

Noun

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ray (plural rays)

  1. (music) Alternative form of re.

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Anagrams

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Ainu

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Verb

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ray (Kana spelling ラィ)

  1. (intransitive) to die

Conjugation

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Conjugation of ray (intransitive, 1-slot)
singular plural
1st-person k(u)=ray ray=as
2nd-person e=ray eci=ray
3rd-person ray ray
4th-person ray=an ray=an

†1st-person plurals are exclusive. Inclusive 1st-person plurals are denoted by 4th-person.
†4th-person: indefinite person, 1st-person inclusive plural, logophorical person, 2nd-person honorific, etc.
See Ainu grammar.

Derived terms

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Buhi'non Bikol

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Noun

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ray

  1. good

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Central Bikol

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɾaj/ [ˈɾaɪ̯]

Noun

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ráy (Basahan spelling ᜍᜌ᜔)

  1. alternative form of rahay

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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From Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

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Noun

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ray ?

  1. opinion

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish رای, from French rail.

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Noun

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ray (definite accusative rayı, plural raylar)

  1. rail

Declension

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Declension of ray
singular plural
nominative ray raylar
definite accusative rayı rayları
dative raya raylara
locative rayda raylarda
ablative raydan raylardan
genitive rayın rayların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular plural
1st singular rayım raylarım
2nd singular rayın rayların
3rd singular rayı rayları
1st plural rayımız raylarımız
2nd plural rayınız raylarınız
3rd plural rayları rayları
definite accusative
singular plural
1st singular rayımı raylarımı
2nd singular rayını raylarını
3rd singular rayını raylarını
1st plural rayımızı raylarımızı
2nd plural rayınızı raylarınızı
3rd plural raylarını raylarını
dative
singular plural
1st singular rayıma raylarıma
2nd singular rayına raylarına
3rd singular rayına raylarına
1st plural rayımıza raylarımıza
2nd plural rayınıza raylarınıza
3rd plural raylarına raylarına
locative
singular plural
1st singular rayımda raylarımda
2nd singular rayında raylarında
3rd singular rayında raylarında
1st plural rayımızda raylarımızda
2nd plural rayınızda raylarınızda
3rd plural raylarında raylarında
ablative
singular plural
1st singular rayımdan raylarımdan
2nd singular rayından raylarından
3rd singular rayından raylarından
1st plural rayımızdan raylarımızdan
2nd plural rayınızdan raylarınızdan
3rd plural raylarından raylarından
genitive
singular plural
1st singular rayımın raylarımın
2nd singular rayının raylarının
3rd singular rayının raylarının
1st plural rayımızın raylarımızın
2nd plural rayınızın raylarınızın
3rd plural raylarının raylarının
Predicative forms
singular plural
1st singular rayım raylarım
2nd singular raysın raylarsın
3rd singular ray
raydır 		raylar
raylardır
1st plural rayız raylarız
2nd plural raysınız raylarsınız
3rd plural raylar raylardır

References

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  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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