Rai vs. Ray — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Rai and Ray
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Definitions
Rai
A form of popular Algerian music combining traditional Arabic vocal styles with various elements of popular Western music and featuring outspoken, often controversial lyrics.
Ray
A narrow stream of radiant energy, especially visible light, traveling in a straight or nearly straight line.
Rai
Stone money
Ray
A narrow stream of particles such as protons traveling in a straight or nearly straight line.
Ray
A rapidly moving particle traveling in a straight or nearly straight line.
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Ray
Rays Sunshine
Let's go to the beach and catch some rays.
Ray
A small amount; a trace
Not a ray of hope left.
Ray
(Mathematics) A straight line extending from a point. Also called half-line.
Ray
Any of the bright streaks that are seen radiating from some craters on the moon.
Ray
A ray flower or the strap-shaped portion of the corolla of a ray flower.
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Ray
A branch of an umbel.
Ray
One of the bony spines supporting the membrane of a fish's fin.
Ray
One of the arms of a starfish or other radiate animal.
Ray
Any of various cartilaginous fishes of the superorder Batoidea, having ventral gill slits, enlarged pelvic fins that are fused to the sides of the head, and a flattened body, and including the stingrays, skates, and guitarfishes.
Ray
Any of various members of this superorder having a whiplike tail usually with a stinging spine, such as a stingray, considered in contrast to a guitarfish, sawfish, or skate.
Ray
To send out as rays; emit.
Ray
To supply with rays or radiating lines.
Ray
To cast rays on; irradiate.
Ray
A beam of light or radiation.
I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
Ray
(zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
Ray
(zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
Ray
(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.
Ray
(obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
Ray
(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
Ray
(colloquial) A tiny amount.
Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.
Ray
A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
Ray
(obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
Ray
The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
Ray
(music) re
Ray
(transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
Ray
(intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
Ray
(transitive) To expose to radiation.
Ray
(obsolete) To arrange.
Ray
To dress, array (someone).
Ray
(obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
Ray
To array.
Ray
To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
Ray
To mark with long lines; to streak.
Ray
To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
Ray
To shine, as with rays.
Ray
Array; order; arrangement; dress.
And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray.
Ray
One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.
Ray
A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.
Ray
One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
Ray
A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.
Ray
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 raysOn him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
Ray
One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
Ray
Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiæ, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
Ray
A column of light (as from a beacon)
Ray
A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
Ray
(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
Ray
A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
Ray
The syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
Ray
Any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish
Ray
Cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
Ray
Emit as rays;
That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky
Ray
Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center;
Spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel
This plants radiates spines in all directions
Ray
Expose to radiation;
Irradiate food