Synonyms for ray

Grammar : Noun

Spell : rey

Phonetic Transcription : reɪ

Top 10 synonyms for ray

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Définition of ray

Origin : "beam of light," c.1300, from Old French rai (nominative rais) "ray (of the sun), spoke (of a wheel); gush, spurt," from Latin radius "ray, spoke, staff, rod" (see radius). Not common before 17c. [OED]; of the sun, usually in reference to heat (beam being preferred for light). Science fiction ray-gun is first recorded 1931 (but cf. Martian Heat ray weapon in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," 1898).

noun beam; indication

Example sentences :

But into his loneliness and despair the girl had came like a ray of light.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Not a ray of the blessed light of heaven could be suffered to visit the poor lad.
Extract from : « Biographical Stories » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He was glad that Ray Minturn had never called him Tip, nor heard him called so.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

And Ray heard no more complaints about the offending little name.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

And Ray pressed his thin, wasting hand across his damp forehead.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

Ray smiled, quite as if he did not think so, but would not unsay it for anything.
Extract from : « Tip Lewis and His Lamp » by Pansy

Mademoiselle Sarah Bernhardt is ideal too, with her ray of moonlight.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

All was darkness down there; not one ray of light since I shut the door.
Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various

His eyes roved from taper to taper, as gathering knowledge ray by ray.
Extract from : « Bride of the Mistletoe » by James Lane Allen

He looked, but there was no ray of recognition in that look.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Antonyms for ray

dullness

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