spine vs ray

spine and ray both are nouns.

spine is not a verb while ray is a verb.

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

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

spine: a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
ray: any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish

Other hyponyms of spine include quill.

spine (noun)	ray (noun)
a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin	cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved	any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord	the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf	a column of light (as from a beacon)
any sharply pointed projection	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

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

Difference between spine and ray

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