Synonyms for ray
reɪray

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1. beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiationnoun

   a column of light (as from a beacon)

   Synonyms:
   beam, shaft, peter, pecker, diaphysis, radio beam, ray of light, actinotherapy, radiation, re, cock, rotating shaft, shaft of light, dick, barb, prick, electron beam, balance beam, scape, slam, spear, dig, calamus, tool, lance, radiotherapy, light beam, quill, gibe, beam of light, putz, jibe, radiation therapy, irradiation, shot

2. raynoun

   a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

   Synonyms:
   light beam, beam of light, electron beam, ray of light, re, beam, shaft, irradiation, shaft of light

3. raynoun

   (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

   Synonyms:
   light beam, beam of light, electron beam, ray of light, re, beam, shaft, irradiation, shaft of light

4. beam, ray, electron beamnoun

   a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

   Synonyms:
   light beam, beam of light, radio beam, ray of light, re, beam, shaft of light, shaft, balance beam, irradiation, electron beam

5. re, raynoun

   the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization

   Synonyms:
   light beam, beam of light, shaft, electron beam, beam, shaft of light, ray of light, re, irradiation, atomic number 75, rhenium

6. raynoun

   any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish

   Synonyms:
   light beam, beam of light, electron beam, ray of light, re, beam, shaft, irradiation, shaft of light

7. rayverb

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

   Synonyms:
   light beam, beam of light, electron beam, ray of light, re, beam, shaft, irradiation, shaft of light

8. rayverb

   emit as rays

   "That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky"

   Synonyms:
   irradiate, radiate

9. radiate, rayverb

   extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

   "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions"

   Synonyms:
   irradiate, shine, glow, beam, radiate, diversify

10. irradiate, rayverb

    expose to radiation

    "irradiate food"

    Synonyms:
    enlighten, irradiate, radiate

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1. raynoun

   Synonyms:
   beam, gleam

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1. raynoun

   Synonyms:
   beam, gleam

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1. List of paraphrases for "ray":

   glimmer, radius, rayos, ray-ray, sos, rays, raymond, radii, gleam

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1. List of known nicknames for "Ray":

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1. Benjamin Sommers:

   With the expanded coverage, you're not going to diagnose more broken bones because whether or not they have insurance, when somebody breaks a leg they are going to get an x-ray, these findings with diabetes may be the tip of the iceberg, and you can imagine similar outcomes for earlier detection of high blood pressure, or cancer, or mental illness.

2. Hank Steinberg:

   The Navy has been incredibly supportive and excited, we had a big premiere in Washington, D.C., where thousands of military people showed up. The Secretary of the Navy [Ray Mabus] himself has been to our set and actually recorded a cameo. It's the episode where they find the message that was buried in the files of the White House. The guy who's playing the Secretary of the Navy, is the real Secretary of the Navy.

3. John Flannery:

   We're keeping the X-ray business, period, it's intrinsically connected to the portfolio.

4. Denver Bronco Shane Dronett:

   I've thought about what I could accomplish in football, but for me personally, when you read about Mike Webster and Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, you read all these stories. And to be the type of player I want to be in football, I think I'd have to take on some risks that as a person I don't want to take on.

5. Otis Brawley:

   There's a tendency in the US to think that every screening test is great. Unfortunately there are screening tests that actually cause more harm than good, in the 1960s and 1970s, we stopped doing chest X-ray screening for lung cancer because, after 20 years of doing it, we finally got around to doing an assessment and we found the death rates were higher in the screened versus the unscreened group.