Čo znamená ray v angličtine a aká je definícia ray?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť ray výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

ray Význam & definícia

0 a narrow beam of light, heat, etc. travelling in a straight line from its place of origin:
- A ray of sunshine shone through a gap in the clouds.
- Light rays bend as they pass from air to water.
- I'm going out to catch a few rays before lunch.
1 a small amount of a feeling that makes you feel happier or more full of hope:
- There's still a ray of hope that the missing child will be found alive.
2 a large, flat sea fish with a long, narrow tail
3 the musical note re
4 a narrow beam of light, heat, or energy
5 half of a line
6 a slight amount or signal of something good:
- One couple seems interested in buying our house, which is a ray of hope after all these months.

The room was small and dark, without so much as a ray of light to brighten the gloom.
The letter offered us a ray of hope.
The alarm emits infra-red rays which are used to detect any intruder.
Through the window came the last few oblique rays of evening sunshine.
A few rays of sunlight pierced the smoke.
In the last two cases the image ray visits only finitely many times.
This is not to say that the visual ray account really does reduce spatial perception to immediacy.
A unique subtype of wide-field amacrine cell region corresponding to eccentricities of 0.6-2.5 mm from the medullary rays.