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A ray is a line of light or energy, coming out from where it starts. Some rays of light from the sun shone between the leaves of the tree and lighted the top of his head. A ray in math is a line that starts at one point and goes on forever in one direction. Two rays that start at the same point make an angle. A ray is a type of fish which lives on the bottom of the ocean.

ray

(= beam) a column of light (as from a beacon) a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish emit as rays That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky (= radiate) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel This plants radiate spines in all directions (= re) the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization (= irradiate) expose to radiation irradiate food (= beam) a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

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Simple sentences

According to the X-ray, everything is all right.
There is not a ray of truth in it.
Please take this chart to the X-ray Room on the third floor.
We have detected an abnormality on your x-ray.
Let's take an X-ray just in case.
The alien shot his ray gun and blasted a hole in the spaceship's hull.
The x-ray showed two broken fingers.
The doctors are looking at an x-ray.
We don't know yet if he really broke his leg. They'll do an X-ray of it.
Tom has a Blu-ray player.
Tom uses his Playstation 3 as a Blu-ray player.
The Sochi official mascots are The Polar Bear, The Hare, The Leopard and two aliens called The Snowflake and The Ray of Light.
The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics official mascots are The Polar Bear, The Hare, The Leopard and two aliens called The Snowflake and The Ray of Light.
Ray was willing to corroborate Gary's story, but the police were still unconvinced that either of them were telling the truth.
I have to go and have an X-ray tomorrow.
In the sky, a ray of light appeared.
In the sky appeared a ray of light.
In the sky there appeared a ray of light.
A single ray of sunlight shone through a chink in the shuttered window.
Where are the gold bars you were supposed to pull out of that bank vault with your Transmatter Ray?
An infrared ray is electromagnetic radiation.
A ray of sunlight penetrated my room through a crack.
Not a ray of light could reach the closet.

Movie subtitles

Ray Neilson is a bit weary, but he did mention Jared was seen drinking with Evan here the night before the parade.
You'd agree, wouldn't you, Ray?
Ray Neilson, Neil Bloom and two others of similar height and build.
Tomorrow. The town can know, and you know what, Ray?
Ray Neilson, Jared Morahu.
You don't know? Ray Wyatt's opened a commissary up at the railhead.
If Ray Wyatt doesn't want to discipline those boys, then I will.
Well, Uncle Ray says Wyatts don't apologize.
Mr. Mayor. I realize that you're in the railroad's pocket, and I know that Ray Wyatt has it in for Mrs. Stanton.
Ray Wyatt sent one of his men to talk to me.
Oh, Ray Wyatt may not like you getting involved in his family's private business.
I honestly don't care what Ray Wyatt likes or dislikes.
Send him to X-ray and then in ER3.
Well, that's a ray of sunshine.
For the first ray of light, after scared days, we have to thank you!
Doctor Waldman, I learnt a great deal from you at the university about the violet ray, the ultraviolet ray, which you said was the highest colour in the spectrum.
I have discovered the great ray that first brought life into the world.
But now I'm going to turn that ray on that body, and endow it with life.
Perhaps those who may be among us tonight for the first time. and who have not yet become initiated into the mysteries. of the First Circle of the Seventh Old Ray. may be wondering what is going to happen now.
Before receiving the First Degree. of the Seventh Old Ray. your mind must be white and blank.
I want you to keep the moon ray going.
Ray Todd must think it makes a difference where he lies out there.
The x-ray!
X-ray!
All right, that's enough of the x-ray treatment.
We're taking this man to the hospital for an x-ray.
Yes, but I gather his wife's no ray of sunshine, eh, Ken?
Now you see, all you've got to do is drive or walk between the posts break the ray, and the doors start swinging.
We broke the ray.
Millie, this is a friend of mine, Mr. Cross, Miss Ray.
How do you do, Miss Ray?
Well, so long, Ray.
And the pajamas in Dexter's apartment show nothing under the X-ray.
He's in the X-ray room.
Why didn't they use the ray guns? These are the Busby boys.
They don't have ray guns.
You are going of the ray.
It's Ray.

News and current affairs

Sophisticated X-ray diagnostic techniques such as CT scans make it possible to detect many cancers at a treatable stage.
That would cast at least one ray of light on the gloom that envelops Japan today.
I visited Pakistan for President Zardari's inauguration, and for the first time I saw a dim ray of hope.
As a result, we tend to see an invisible cloud behind every ray of sunshine; we seem to think that our achievements have meaning only for ourselves.
Since then, X-ray structural analysis of protein molecules has helped us to understand the chemistry of biological reactions.
He became director of the Royal Institution in London in 1923, where he attracted some outstanding young scientists interested in the X-ray field.
Among them were two recent Cambridge graduates, William Astbury and John Desmond Bernal, who became interested in the problem of protein structure--Astbury as a result of being asked by Bragg to provide X-ray diagrams of wool and silk.
Describing his unsuccessful attempts to obtain well-ordered X-ray diffraction patterns from crystals of the protein pepsin, he wondered whether Bernal could help obtain crystals of other proteins.
They repeated the X-ray experiment, but with the crystal surrounded by its mother-liquor and sealed in a glass capillary, obtaining patterns with large numbers of crystalline reflections.
He also obtained the first X-ray patterns of partially oriented samples of DNA.
The next year, he was given excellent hemoglobin crystals and soon produced the best X-ray diffraction patterns to date.
But the faith remained that detailed information about protein structure could be obtained from the X-ray patterns in some way, if only it could be discovered.
A mammogram (x-ray of the breast) is administered to ostensibly healthy people to detect unsuspected disease.
One ray of hope is that moderate Arab leaders, including Egypt's foreign minister, have openly blamed Hamas for the current Gazan predicament.
And yet he controversially but rightly held out a hand of friendship to the breakaway region of Somaliland, before it became fashionable, and went as far as he could short of formal re-recognition of that ray of democratic hope in the Horn of Africa.
In these dismal circumstances, a recent development has provided a rare ray of hope: the extraordinary mobilization of Congolese civil society in defense of the DRC's nascent democratic institutions.