Ray

1. A beam of light or radiation.

   I saw a ray of light through the clouds.

2. A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
3. One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
4. 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.
5. Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
6. A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
7. A tiny amount.

   Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.

1. To emit something as if in rays.
2. To radiate as if in rays.

noun

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

noun

Array; order; arrangement; dress.

1. To arrange.
2. To dress, array (someone).
3. To stain or soil; to defile.

noun

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

noun

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