visible light vs ray

ray vs visible light

visible light and ray both are nouns.

visible light is not a verb while ray is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
visible light	Yes	No	No	No
ray	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

visible light: (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
ray: a column of light (as from a beacon)

Other hyponyms of visible light include beam, beam of light, irradiation, light beam, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, candle flame, candlelight, corona, counterglow, gegenschein, daylight, firelight, fluorescence, friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, gaslight, glow, glowing, radiance, glow, half-light, glow, incandescence, lamplight, luminescence, meteor, shooting star, Moon, moonlight, moonshine, starlight, sun, sunlight, sunshine, scintillation, streamer, torchlight, twilight.

visible light (noun)	ray (noun)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation	cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
	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

visible light (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 visible light and ray

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