Ray

[reɪ] or [re]

解釋/意思:

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

(noun.) any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish.

(noun.) a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence.

(noun.) (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point.

(verb.) emit as rays; 'That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky'.

手打:肖恩--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To array.

(v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.

(n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress.

(n.) One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.

(n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.

(n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

(n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

(n.) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.

(n.) One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.

(n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

(n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.

(n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.

(n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.

(v. i.) To shine, as with rays.

(n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

(n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

編輯:珀尔

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Beam, gleam.

杰拉尔德編輯

解釋/意思:

n. the scab—a disease of sheep.

n. array.—v.t. to array—hence ironically (Shak.) to bedaub.

n. a popular name for such flat cartilaginous fishes as the skate thornback and torpedo.—n. Ray′-oil oil prepared from the livers of ray-fish.

n. a line of light or heat: a beam or gleam of intellectual light: a radiating part of any structure: (bot.) the outer part of a flower-cluster.—v.t. to radiate: to furnish with rays.—v.i. to shine out.—adjs. Rayed having rays; Ray′less without rays: destitute of light.

n. (mus.) the second note of the diatonic scale.

校對:劳伦斯