Rayname詞源 1/ɹeɪ/

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  A surname transferred from the nickname.

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  A diminutive of the male given names Raymond, Rayane, or Rayan, also used as a formal given name.

  • -, 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.
  • 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.
• 3

  A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, more often spelled Rae.

  • 'Rachel told me―' 'Call her Ray. She hates Rachel.'
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Rayname詞源 2/ɹeɪ/

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  A city near Tehran, Iran.

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  historicalA region and satrapy in ancient Iran located between the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges and the Dasht-e Kavir desert; Rhagiana.

raynoun詞源 1/ɹeɪ/

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  A beam of light or radiation.

  • I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
  • Strangely light and delicate was his frame and seeming, yet with a sense of slumbering power beneath, as the delicate peak of a snow mountain seen afar in the low red rays of morning.
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  biologynatural-scienceszoologyA rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.

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  biologynatural-scienceszoologyOne of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

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  biologybotanynatural-sciencesA 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.

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  obsoleteSight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

  • All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
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  mathematicssciencesA line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

rayverb詞源 1/ɹeɪ/

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  To emit something as if in rays.

  • He was one of the unthanked benefactors of his race, who was patiently teaching and serving mankind, whilst they were shrinking from his coldness, or mocking his peculiarities. He could not sing for them a sweet song, or create a “thing of beauty” which should be “a joy for ever,” or touch their hearts, or fire their spirits, or deepen their reverence or their fervour. He was not a Poet, a Priest, or a Prophet, but only a cold, clear Intelligence, raying down pure white light, which brightened everything on which it fell, but warmed nothing—a Star of at least the second, if not of the first magnitude, in the Intellectual Firmament.
  • 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.
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  To radiate as if in rays.

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  To expose to radiation.

  • Rats' eyes with ulcus serpens were successfully treated; one second of raying stopped the progress of the ulcer, which healed uninterruptedly.

raynoun詞源 2/ɹeɪ/

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  Any of the superorder Batoidea of marine fish with flat bodies, large wing-like fins, and whip-like tails.

rayverb詞源 3/ɹeɪ/

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  obsoleteTo arrange.

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  archaicTo dress, array (someone).

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  obsoleteTo stain or soil; to defile.

  • From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And from his face the filth that did it ray […].

raynoun詞源 3/ɹeɪ/

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  obsoleteArray; order; arrangement; dress.

  • spoyling all her geares and goodly ray

raynoun詞源 4/ɹeɪ/

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  The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• re