ray vs low beam

low beam vs ray

ray and low beam both are nouns.

ray is a verb but low beam is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ray	Yes	No	Yes	No
low beam	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, low beam is a hyponym of ray; that is, low beam is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ray:

ray: a column of light (as from a beacon)
low beam: the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance

Other hyponyms of ray include heat ray, high beam, moon-ray, moon ray, moonbeam, sunbeam, sunray, laser beam.

ray (noun)	low beam (noun)
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins	the beam of a car's headlights that provides illumination for a short distance
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

ray (verb)	low beam (verb)
expose to radiation
extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
emit as rays

Difference between ray and low beam

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