ray

Significat (Anglès)

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. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
6. A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

Verb

1. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
2. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
3. (transitive) To expose to radiation.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To arrange.
2. (archaic) To dress, array (someone).
3. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.

Conceptes

raig

rajada

línia

ratlla

tira

veta

🎀

irradiar

ràid

estria

re

filet

Sinònims

beam

light

skate

irradiate

stingray

ray of light

beam of light

gleam

stripe

radius

radiate

strip

shaft

lightning

brightness

irradiation

fish

🐟

spoke

flash

manta ray

re

light beam

shaft of light

lustre

electron beam

half-line

shine

eagle ray

line

scintillate

scratch

semidiameter

shower

🚿

shower bath

showerhead

spark

splendour

spray

streak

stream

sunlight

sunshine

thread

🧵

vector

visible light

wire

emit light

gleam of hope

one road

rays of the sun

Traduccions

rayon

Strahl

rayo

raggio

raie

raya

straal

raio

razza

Rochen

ışın

ακτίνα

rog

lampo

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹeɪ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: -

Heretat de anglès mitjà: raye

Cognat amb anglès mitjà: reyhhe

Cognat amb anglès antic: reohhe

In summary

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