ray

A beam of light or radiation.

“I saw a ray of light through the clouds.”

A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.

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

A 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.

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

A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

A tiny amount.

“Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.”

To emit something as if in rays.

To radiate as if in rays.

A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.

Array; order; arrangement; dress.

To arrange.

To dress, array (someone).

To stain or soil; to defile.

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

A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.