What is "ray"

Ray \Ray\, n. [F. raie, L. raia. Cf. Roach.] (Zo["o]l.)

1. Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Rai[ae], including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

2. In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

   Bishop ray, a yellow-spotted, long-tailed eagle ray ( Stoasodon n[`a]rinari) of the Southern United States and the West Indies.

   Butterfly ray, a short-tailed American sting ray ( Pteroplatea Maclura), having very broad pectoral fins.

   Devil ray. See Sea Devil.

   Eagle ray, any large ray of the family Myliobatid[ae], or [AE]tobatid[ae]. The common European species ( Myliobatis aquila) is called also whip ray, and miller.

   Electric ray, or Cramp ray, a torpedo.

   Starry ray, a common European skate ( Raia radiata).

   Sting ray, any one of numerous species of rays of the family Trygonid[ae] having one or more large, sharp, barbed dorsal spines on the whiplike tail. Called also stingaree.

Ray \Ray\, v. i. To shine, as with rays.
--Mrs. Browning.

Ray \Ray\ (r[=a]), v. t. [An aphetic form of array; cf. Beray.]

1. To array. [Obs.]
   --Sir T. More.

2. To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile. [Obs.] ``The filth that did it ray.''
   --Spenser.

Ray \Ray\, n. Array; order; arrangement; dress. [Obs.]

And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray.
--Spenser.

Ray \Ray\, n. [OF. rai, F. rais, fr. L. radius a beam or ray, staff, rod, spoke of a wheel. Cf. Radius.]

1. One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.

2. (Bot.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.

3. (Zo["o]l.)

   1. One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

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

4. (Physics)

   1. A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.

   2. One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.

5. 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.
   --Pope.

6. (Geom.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.

   Bundle of rays. (Geom.) See Pencil of rays, below.

   Extraordinary ray (Opt.), that one of two parts of a ray divided by double refraction which does not follow the ordinary law of refraction.

   Ordinary ray (Opt.) that one of the two parts of a ray divided by double refraction which follows the usual or ordinary law of refraction.

   Pencil of rays (Geom.), a definite system of rays.

   Ray flower, or Ray floret (Bot.), one of the marginal flowers of the capitulum in such composite plants as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed.

   Ray point (Geom.), the common point of a pencil of rays.

   R["o]ntgen ray (r[~e]nt"g[e^]n r[=a]`) (Phys.), a kind of ray generated in a very highly exhausted vacuum tube by the electrical discharge; now more commonly called X-ray. It is composed of electromagnetic radiation of wavelength shorter than that of ultraviolet light, and is capable of passing through many bodies opaque to light, and producing photographic and fluorescent effects by which means pictures showing the internal structure of opaque objects are made, called radiographs, sciagraphs, X-ray photographs, radiograms, or X-rays. So called from the discoverer, W. C. R["o]ntgen.

   X ray, the R["o]ntgen ray; -- so called by its discoverer because of its enigmatical character, x being an algebraic symbol for an unknown quantity.

Ray \Ray\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rayed (r[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Raying.] [Cf. OF. raier, raiier, rayer, L. radiare to irradiate. See Ray, n., and cf. Radiate.]

1. To mark with long lines; to streak. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

2. [From Ray, n.] To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles. [R.]
   --Thomson.

"beam of light," c.1300, from Old French rai (nominative rais) "ray (of the sun), spoke (of a wheel); gush, spurt," from Latin radius "ray, spoke, staff, rod" (see radius). Not common before 17c. [OED]; of the sun, usually in reference to heat (beam being preferred for light). Science fiction ray-gun is first recorded 1931 (but the Martians had a Heat ray weapon in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," 1898).

type of fish related to sharks, early 14c., from French raie (13c.), from Latin raia, of unknown origin.

Etymology 1 n. 1 A beam of light or radiation. 2 (context zoology English) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin. 3 (context zoology English) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. 4 (context botany English) 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 (context obsolete English) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen. 6 (context mathematics English) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point. 7 (context colloquial English) A tiny amount. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To emit something as if in rays. 2 (context intransitive English) To radiate as if in rays Etymology 2

n. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail. Etymology 3

vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To arrange. (14th-18th c.) 2 (context now rare English) To dress, array (someone). (from 14th c.) 3 (context obsolete English) To stain or soil; to defile. (16th-19th c.) Etymology 4

n. The name of the letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the ''r'' sound in Pitman shorthand. Etymology 5

n. (context obsolete English) Array; order; arrangement; dress. Etymology 6

n. (context music English) (alternative form of re English)

1. v. emit as rays; "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"

2. extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiates spines in all directions" [syn: radiate]

3. expose to radiation; "irradiate food" [syn: irradiate]

1. n. a column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation]

2. a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

3. (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

4. a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation [syn: beam, electron beam]

5. the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: re]

6. any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish

7. cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins

Ray may refer to:

Ray is a 2004 American musical biographical film focusing on 30 years in the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was written, produced and directed by Taylor Hackford, and stars Jamie Foxx in the title role. Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as well as the Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild and Critics' Choice awards, becoming the second actor to win all five major lead actor awards for the same performance, and the only one to win the Golden Globe in the Musical or Comedy (rather than the Drama) category.

Charles was set to attend an opening of the completed film, but died of liver disease in June, several months before its premiere.

Ray is the seventh album by L'Arc-en-Ciel, released on July 1, 1999, simultaneously with Ark. It reached number two on the Oricon chart, behind only Ark, and sold over two million copies, being certified by the RIAJ.

The Ray is the name of four fictional characters, all superheroes in the DC Comics universe.

The first Ray was Lanford "Happy" Terrill, a Quality Comics character. When DC Comics later purchased Quality Comics, Happy Terrill was retconned as a member of the Freedom Fighters on Earth-X. Following DC altering much of its continuity and history in the storyline Crisis on Infinite Earths, Happy Terrill was now an inhabitant of the mainstream DC Comics universe and his son Ray Terrill became the second Ray. Later, the character Stan Silver briefly operated as the third hero called "the Ray." In the "New 52" relaunch of DC Comics, where continuity and history is again being restructured, a new character called Lucien Gates is introduced as the Ray. Although historically he is the fourth superhero character to use this name, in The Ray #1 (2012), set in a rebooted continuity, he refers to the origin of Happy Terrill as a story he had heard as a child.

The surname Ray may refer to:

"Ray" is a song by the Swedish punk rock band Millencolin from the album Kingwood. It was released as a single on March 14, 2005 by Burning Heart Records, including the b-side song "Phony Tony" from the album's recording sessions and a live recording of "Bullion". An accompanying music video for "Ray" was also filmed and released.

The Ray (real name Raymond C. "Ray" Terrill) is a fictional character, a superhero in the . He is the second character to use the codename The Ray. Ray Terrill first appeared in The Ray #1 (February 1992), and was created by Jack C. Harris and Joe Quesada.

Ray is the soundtrack of the 2004 film Ray starring Jamie Foxx (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as " Ray Charles" in this film), Kerry Washington, Terrence Howard, Clifton Powell and Regina King. The score was composed by Craig Armstrong.

The album won a Grammy Award and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.

In optics a ray is an idealized model of light, obtained by choosing a line that is perpendicular to the wavefronts of the actual light, and that points in the direction of energy flow. Rays are used to model the propagation of light through an optical system, by dividing the real light field up into discrete rays that can be computationally propagated through the system by the techniques of ray tracing. This allows even very complex optical systems to be analyzed mathematically or simulated by computer. Ray tracing uses approximate solutions to Maxwell's equations that are valid as long as the light waves propagate through and around objects whose dimensions are much greater than the light's wavelength. Ray theory does not describe phenomena such as interference and diffraction, which require wave theory (involving the relative phase of the rays).

Ray is a masculine given name and short form ( hypocorism) of Raymond, and may refer to:

Ray is an EP released by Panic Channel on August 29, 2008.

Ray is the second album by Frazier Chorus and was released in 1991. A limited edition version of the LP and CD included The Baby Album, a four track bonus remix disc. The four bonus remixes were also appended to the end of the cassette edition.

Ray (born February 14, 1982) is a Hong Kong professional wrestler, who is currently working as a freelancer on the Japanese independent circuit. She is a former International Ribbon Tag Team Champion and CMLL-Reina International Junior Champion. After being trained by Emi Sakura, Ray made her professional wrestling debut in September 2003 and would for the next several years wrestle under different masks, before she began working for Smash in March 2010, unmasked under the ring name Lin Byron ( Japanese: リン・バイロン, ) (sometimes transliterated as Lin Bairon). She remained with Smash until the promotion folded in March 2012, after which she transferred over to its successor, Wrestling New Classic (WNC), which lasted until June 2014. In April 2013, Byron became the third WNC Women's Champion. She revived the Ray character in January 2011, initially signing with Ice Ribbon, before becoming a freelancer in May 2012. She has since mainly worked for the Reina Joshi Puroresu promotion, while also promoting her own independent events and traveling to the United States to work for Shimmer Women Athletes.

Ray was a British short-run little avant-garde art magazine, designed, edited, and financed by the English artist and designer Sidney Hunt (1926 - 1927), and described as the English equivalent of other influential art journals from the 1920s such as Merz, Mecano and De Stijl. Ray featured work of leading figures of the European avant-garde such as Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Naum Gabo, and Hans Arp. Although only two issues were printed, the existence of Ray establishes a line of continuity between the Vorticist movement of the 1910s and Unit One's renaissance of British art in the 1930s. From this perspective, Ray should be considered the missing link between the 1914-15 publication of the Vorticist journal BLAST and the edition of the abstract and constructivist English magazines Axis (1935-37) and Circle (1937).

, better known by her stage name Ray, is a Japanese singer signed to Geneon Universal Entertainment.

Ray(Russian: Ray) is a village in Smolensk region of Russia. Located in the central part of region, 1.5 km to the south of the motorway A141[ru], and 6 km to the south-west of Smolensk.

Population – 132 residents ( 2007 year). Included in the Prigorskii rural settlement.