treat vs ray

treat and ray both are nouns.

treat and ray both are verbs.

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

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

treat: subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
ray: expose to radiation

Other hyponyms of treat include propagate, iodise, iodize, nitrate, tank, aerate, oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenize, mercerise, mercerize, malt, fluoridate, fluoridise, fluoridize, creosote, chlorinate, carbonate, camphorate, bromate, brominate, ammoniate, irradiate, scald, refine, nitrify, nitrogenise, nitrogenize, reverberate, curry, seed, dose, sulfur, sulphur, vulcanise, vulcanize, chrome, bituminise, bituminize, Agenise, Agenize, run, carboxylate, beneficiate, digest, fume, fumigate, air-condition.

treat (noun)	ray (noun)
an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight	cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
something considered choice to eat	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

treat (verb)	ray (verb)
provide treatment for	expose to radiation
subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition	extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
regard or consider in a specific way	emit as rays
act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement
provide with choice or abundant food or drink
provide with a gift or entertainment
interact in a certain way

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