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. Otis Brawley:

   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.

2. Robert Erickson:

   Unlike an X-ray that penetrates through the organ, [with thermography], you can get a view of what’s going on inside the body.

3. Geoffrey Berman:

   Ray put a knife to one male victimsthroat, brandished a knife and threatened to dismember another male victim, grabbed a third male victim around the neck until he passed out, slapped a female victim and grabbed another female victim by her head before shoving her to the ground, after enduring Rays abuse, seven of his victims falsely confessed to having harmed or attempted to harm Ray. Ray, who sometimes recorded these false confessions, then used these false confessions to extort money from his victims.

4. Bryan Stevenson:

   Race, poverty, inadequate legal assistance, and prosecutorial indifference to innocence conspired to create a textbook example of injustice, i can't think of a case that more urgently dramatizes the need for reform than what has happened to Anthony Ray Hinton.

5. Dan Harris:

   [ Tyler ] is just a ray of joy, everybody in Heavenly Peace Libertyville chapter loves hearing about Tyler and seeing him drop off the bedding.