Rays

Word RAYS
Character 4
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ɹeɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Rays"

What do we mean by rays?

A beam of light or radiation.

A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.

One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

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.

Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

A tiny amount.

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The word "rays" in example sentences

A white-uniformed attendant offered champagne, and Teddy's companion, Sandra Seligman of Detroit, reached for a fluted glass as she schmoozed with passersby and soaked in rays from the subtropical sun. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On the other hand, if the direction of the rays is the same as that of the field, then the intensity of those components which lie on the side towards the longer wavelengths increases. ❋ Unknown (1967)

An excellent instrument for the investigation of the nature of the rays is the Wilson chamber, which consists of a closed vessel filled with supersaturated steam. ❋ Unknown (1965)

'We're in a market that is hungry for what I call rays of sunshine or glimmers of hopes on company fundamentals and economics,' said Fred Dickson, market strategist and director of retail research at D.A. Davidson&Co in Lake Oswego, Oregon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"We're in a market that is hungry for what I call rays of sunshine or glimmers of hopes on company fundamentals and economics," said Fred Dickson, market strategist and director of retail research at D.A. Davidson & Co in Lake Oswego, Oregon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Gone are the arguments that a "base" tan stops you from burning, or that exposure to UVA/UVB rays is good for your health. ❋ Verena Von Pfetten (2010)

Your child will not feel the x-rays from the CT scan, but sometimes holding still for a long time can be uncomfortable. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I moved through wind-swept groves of limber backs,; across sunny glades, lighted by the beaming rays from a thousand obsequious eyes; and when I tired of this, basked on the greensward of popular approval. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It had fish-like scales, as well as fish-like fin rays and jaw and mouth elements, but it had a shortened skull roof and mobile neck to catch prey, an ear that could hear in both land and water, and a wrist joint that is like those seen in land animals. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

An eruption of cosmic energy rays from the black hole would occur in 1992, helping to create sun spots and bring increasingly hotter temperatures to Earth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I love how the Voodoo Vampress has bionic tranformation powers, and fang rays from the “War of the Worlds” Martian machines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even if it were a fully electric (via fusion, fission, wave power, solar rays from the Kuiper Belt, whatever), there would be a high demand for various elements to build components. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The ultra-violet rays, and other high-velocity and invisible rays from the upper end of the spectrum, rip and tear through their tissues, just as the X-ray ripped and tore through the tissues of so many experimenters before they learned the danger. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Vitamin D is different from other vitamins because though the body stores it, it needs ultraviolet B rays from the sun to activate it, says James Dowd, professor of medicine at Michigan State University and author of The Vitamin D Cure. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Texan takes a sip of his agua fresca and moves a little under his palapa to avoid the breathless rays from the flaming beast above. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Undiluted, guilty pleasure of the vintage pulp adventure ... full of dark (somber and even macabre) tones, bathed in rays of soaring, brittle light - a heady brew, an experience not unlike a pint of complex English stout (paired with an aged cheese), enjoyed on the stepstones of a looming cathedral, not far away from an ancient cemetery, watching the purple haze and glorious golden-lined clouds of a dying sunset. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rosenberg used X-rays from the Advanced Photon Source to bombard chiral molecules adsorbed on a magnetic substrate and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to track changes in the molecular bonds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From Wikipedia: Research has been conducted to investigate the consequences of Earth being hit by a beam of gamma rays from a nearby (about 500 light years) gamma ray burst. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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