emit vs ray

emit is not a noun while ray is a noun.

emit and ray both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
emit	No	No	Yes	No
ray	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, ray is a hyponym of emit; that is, ray is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than emit:

emit: give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
ray: emit as rays

Other hyponyms of emit include effuse, reflect, shine, spark, sparkle, radiate, scintillate, fume, smoke, reek, shoot, steam.

emit (noun)	ray (noun)
	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
	the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
	a column of light (as from a beacon)
	a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
	a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
	(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

emit (verb)	ray (verb)
expel (gases or odors)	expose to radiation
express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)	extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.	emit as rays

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