shaft vs sunray

sunray vs shaft

shaft and sunray both are nouns.

shaft is a verb but sunray is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
shaft	Yes	No	Yes	No
sunray	Yes	No	No	No

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

shaft: a column of light (as from a beacon)
sunray: a ray of sunlight

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

shaft (noun)	sunray (noun)
the hollow spine of a feather	a ray of sunlight
a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)	a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp
a revolving rod that transmits power or motion	herb having a basal cluster of grey-green leaves and leafless stalks each with a solitary broad yellow flower head; desert areas Idaho to Arizona
a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
(architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
the main (mid) section of a long bone
obscene terms for penis
a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
a column of light (as from a beacon)

shaft (verb)	sunray (verb)
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
equip with a shaft

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