Rai vs. Ray — What's the Difference?

A form of popular Algerian music combining traditional Arabic vocal styles with various elements of popular Western music and featuring outspoken, often controversial lyrics.

A narrow stream of radiant energy, especially visible light, traveling in a straight or nearly straight line.

Stone money

A narrow stream of particles such as protons traveling in a straight or nearly straight line.

A rapidly moving particle traveling in a straight or nearly straight line.

Rays Sunshine

A small amount; a trace

(Mathematics) A straight line extending from a point. Also called half-line.

Any of the bright streaks that are seen radiating from some craters on the moon.

A ray flower or the strap-shaped portion of the corolla of a ray flower.

A branch of an umbel.

One of the bony spines supporting the membrane of a fish's fin.

One of the arms of a starfish or other radiate animal.

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.

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.

To send out as rays; emit.

To supply with rays or radiating lines.

To cast rays on; irradiate.

A beam of light or radiation.

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

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

(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.

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

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

(colloquial) A tiny amount.

A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.

(obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.

The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.

(music) re

(transitive) To emit something as if in rays.

(intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.

(transitive) To expose to radiation.

(obsolete) To arrange.

To dress, array (someone).

(obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.

To array.

To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.

To mark with long lines; to streak.

To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.

To shine, as with rays.

Array; order; arrangement; dress.

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.

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.

One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.

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.

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

One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.

Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiæ, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.

A column of light (as from a beacon)

A branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence

(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point

A group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation

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

Any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish

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

Emit as rays;

Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center;

Expose to radiation;