A Quick and Simple Dictionary

ray

1. Proper noun.  (surname, from Middle English) from a (etyl, enm) nickname meaning a king or a roe.
2. Proper noun.  (given name, male) , also used as a formal given name.
3. Proper noun.  (given name, female) , more often spelled Rae.
4. Noun.  A beam of light or radiation.
5. Noun.  A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
6. Noun.  A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
7. Noun.  (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
8. Noun.  (colloquial) A tiny amount.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
10. Verb.  (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
11. Noun.  (music) An anglicised spelling of re.
12. Noun.  The name of the letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the ''r'' sound in Pitman shorthand.