RAY

Ray

Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. The independently produced film was directed by Taylor Hackford and starred Jamie Foxx in the title role; Foxx received an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.

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ray

Noun

  1. A beam of light or radiation.
    I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
  2. A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  3. One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  4. 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.
  5. Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  6. A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
  7. A tiny amount.
    Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.

Noun (etymology 2)

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

Noun (etymology 3)

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

Noun (etymology 4)

  1. Array; order; arrangement; dress.

Noun (etymology 5)

Verb

  1. To emit something as if in rays.
  2. To radiate as if in rays

Verb (etymology 2)

  1. To arrange.
  2. To dress, array (someone).
  3. To stain or soil; to defile.


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