ray
/rā/
noun
- each of the lines in which light (and heat) may seem to stream from the sun or any luminous body, or pass through a small opening."a ray of sunlight came through the window"synonyms: beam, shaft, streak, bar, pencil, finger, stream, gleam, flash, glint, glimmer, flicker, twinkle, shimmer
- any of a set of straight lines passing through one point."the ray that runs from the center of the circle to the point of tangency"
- a thing that is arranged radially.
verb
spread from or as if from a central point.
"delicate lines rayed out at each corner of her eyes"
synonyms: spread out, fan out, radiate out
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