ray

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɹeɪ/    美 /ɹeɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A beam of light or radiation.
    — I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
  2. Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.
  3. Array; order; arrangement; dress. obsolete,uncountable
    — spoyling all her geares and goodly ray
  4. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
  5. Alternative form of re. alt-of,alternative
  6. A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  7. One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  8. 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.
  9. Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen. obsolete
    — All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
  10. A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
动词 v.
  1. To emit something as if in rays. transitive
    — 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. To arrange. obsolete
  3. To radiate as if in rays. intransitive
  4. To dress, array (someone). archaic
  5. To expose to radiation. transitive
    — Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.
  6. To stain or soil; to defile. obsolete
    — From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […].

词形变化

rays plural rays present,singular,third-person raying participle,present rayed participle,past rayed past rays plural rays present,singular,third-person raying participle,present rayed participle,past rayed past rays plural rays plural

词汇关系

下位词
beta ray cathode ray death ray delta ray derma ray gamma ray green ray grenz ray light ray N-ray Roentgen-ray shrink ray T-ray violet ray X-ray
衍生词
alpha ray anticrepuscular ray Becquerel calorific ray Becquerel ray beray Blu-ray calorific ray catch some rays cosmic ray crepuscular ray distributed ray tracing eigenray extraordinary ray finray god ray grocery shrink ray Gurwitsch ray half-ray heat-ray hemiray Lenard ray lightray medullary ray meridional ray mitogenetic ray number ray outray raycaster ray casting ray floret rayful ray grass ray gun raying room rayless raylet raylike ray marching ray of hope ray of light ray of sunshine rayproof raytraced ray tracer ray tracing repulsor ray sailray starry ray sunray superray violet ray X-ray

词源

词源 1
Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.
词源 2
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”).
词源 3
Shortened from array.
词源 4
From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.
词源 5
Alternative forms.
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