ray

Sense 1 noun

a column of light (as from a beacon)

Sense 2 verb

emit as rays

That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky

Sense 3 noun

a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

Sense 4 verb

extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel

Sense 5 noun

(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

Sense 6 verb

expose to radiation

irradiate food

Sense 7 noun

a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

Sense 8 noun

the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization

Sense 9 noun

any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish

Sense 10 noun

cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins