rays
/ɹeɪz/
rays is the plural of ray.
rays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ray.
Meaning of ray
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- A beam of light or radiation.
- I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- 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.
- All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC
- A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
Phrases with rays
- γ rays
- ex rays
- bat rays
- god rays
- beta rays
- alpha rays
- death rays
- delta rays
- derma rays
- devil rays
- eagle rays
- gamma rays
33 more phrasesFewer phrases
- green rays
- grenz rays
- light rays
- manta rays
- shark rays
- cosmic rays
- Lenard rays
- number rays
- shrink rays
- starry rays
- cathode rays
- cownose rays
- rays of hope
- Röntgen rays
- electric rays
- rays of light
- repulsor rays
- Becquerel rays
- butterfly rays
- calorific rays
- Gurwitsch rays
- medullary rays
- catch some rays
- meridional rays
- caught some rays
- crepuscular rays
- mitogenetic rays
- rays of sunshine
- catches some rays
- catching some rays
- spotted eagle rays
- anticrepuscular rays
- spinal butterfly rays
Words that rhyme with rays
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
Questions about rays
- What is rays the plural of?
- Rays is the plural of ray.
- How do you pronounce rays?
- Rays is pronounced /ɹeɪz/.
Words near rays in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rays (page history and authors); ray (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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