English Dictionary

ray

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹeɪ/

名詞

廃用 口語

A beam of light or radiation. / (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.

日本語の意味

光線：光や放射線が一直線に進む現象や束状のもの。 / 鰭条：魚のひれにおいて、骨または軟骨が肋骨のように配置され、ひれを支える構造。

A single ray of sunlight pierced the morning fog.

朝の霧を一筋の光線が突き抜けた。

意味（1）

A beam of light or radiation.

I saw a ray of light through the clouds.

意味（2）

(zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.

意味（3）

(zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.

意味（4）

(botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.

意味（6）

(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

意味（7）

(colloquial) A tiny amount.

Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.

rays （ plural ）