Ray (given name)
WordNet
noun
(1) Cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
(2) Any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish
(3) The syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
(4) A column of light (as from a beacon)
(5) A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
(6) A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
(7) (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
verb
(8) Expose to radiation
"Irradiate food"
(9) 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"
(10) Emit as rays
"That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"
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Proper noun
- from a nickname meaning a king or a roe.
- A diminutive of Raymond, also used as a formal male given name.
- A diminutive of Rachel, more often spelled Rae.
Quotations
- 1980 Wright Morris, Plains Song, for Female Voices, Harper&Row, ISBN 0060130474, page 113:
- - , or Raymond if it happened to be a boy, choosing it in the hope that a name like Ray would make a boy's life easier.
- 2005 Sam Weller, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury, William Morrow, ISBN 006054581X, page 12
- Although the name on his birth certificate was spelled "Ray", Ray said he was originally given the name "Rae" after Rae Williams, a cousin on his father's side.