skate vs ray

skate and ray both are nouns.

skate and ray both are verbs.

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

As nouns, ray is a hypernym of skate; that is, ray is a word with a broader meaning than skate:

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
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 (noun)	ray (noun)
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	cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
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	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

skate (verb)	ray (verb)
move along on skates	expose to radiation
	extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
	emit as rays

Difference between skate and ray

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