ray vs skate

ray and skate both are nouns.

ray and skate both are verbs.

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

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

ray: cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
skate: large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins

Other hyponyms of ray include crampfish, electric ray, numbfish, torpedo, sawfish, guitarfish, stingray, eagle ray, devilfish, manta, manta ray.

ray (noun)	skate (noun)
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins	large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish	sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
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)	skate (verb)
expose to radiation	move along on skates
extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
emit as rays

Difference between ray and skate

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