sunray vs ray
ray vs sunraysunray and ray both are nouns.
sunray is not a verb while ray is a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sunray | Yes | No | No | No |
| ray | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As nouns,
ray is a hypernym of
sunray; that is, ray is a
word with a broader meaning than sunray:
- sunray: a ray of sunlight
- ray: a column of light (as from a beacon)
Other hypernyms of sunray include
beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light.
| sunray (noun) | ray (noun) |
|---|---|
| a ray of sunlight | cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins |
| a ray of artificial ultraviolet light from a sunray lamp | any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish |
| 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 | 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 |
| sunray (verb) | ray (verb) |
|---|---|
| expose to radiation | |
| extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | |
| emit as rays |
Words related to "sunray"
Words related to "ray"
- beam
- beam of light
- bombard
- cathode ray
- crampfish
- devilfish
- eagle ray
- elasmobranch
- electric ray
- electromagnetic radiation
- electromagnetic wave
- electron beam
- emit
- extend
- fin
- give off
- give out
- go
- guitarfish
- heat ray
- high beam
- irradiate
- irradiation
- laser beam
- lead
- light
- light beam
- low beam
- manta
- manta ray
- math
- mathematics
- maths
- moon ray
- moon-ray
- moonbeam
- nonparticulate radiation
- numbfish
- particle beam
- pass
- pedicel
- pedicle
- process
- radiate
- ray of light
- re
- run
- sawfish
- selachian
- shaft
- shaft of light
- skate
- solfa syllable
- spine
- stingray
- sunbeam
- sunray
- torpedo
- treat
- vector
- visible light
- visible radiation
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