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ray
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?, IPA(key): /?e?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Etymology 1
Via Middle English, borrowed from Old French rai, from Latin radius (“staff, stake, spoke”). Doublet of radius.
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- A beam of light or radiation.
- I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- (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.
- Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)
- (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
- 1889, Robert Browning, letter to Dr. Furnivall
- I had no particular woman in my mind; certainly never intended to personify wisdom, philosophy, or any other abstraction; and the orb, raying colour out of whiteness, was altogether a fancy of my own.
- 1889, Robert Browning, letter to Dr. Furnivall
- (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English raye, ray?e, from Old French raie, from Latin raia, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English reyhhe, reihe, re?ge (“ray, skate”), from Old English reohhe (“ray”).
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
Translations
Etymology 3
Shortened from array.
Verb
ray (third-person singular simple present rays, present participle raying, simple past and past participle rayed)
- (obsolete) To arrange. [14th-18th c.]
- (now rare) To dress, array (someone). [from 14th c.]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir T. More to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile. [16th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.4:
- From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And form his face the filth that did it ray […] .
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.4:
Noun
ray (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
Etymology 4
From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- The letter ?/?, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms
- ar, in Latin and the name of the other Pitman r
Etymology 5
Alternative forms.
Noun
ray (plural rays)
- (music) Alternative form of re
Anagrams
- -ary, Ary, Ayr, RYA, ary, ayr, rya, yar
Ainu
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?aj/
Verb
ray (Kana spelling ??)
- (intransitive) to die
Derived terms
- rayke (“to kill”)
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Arabic ?????? (ra?y).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r??j/
Noun
ray ?
- opinion
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French rail.
Noun
ray (definite accusative ray?, plural raylar)
- rail
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spark
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: spärk, IPA(key): /sp??k/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: späk, IPA(key): /sp??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
- Homophone: SPARC
Etymology 1
From Middle English sparke, sperke, from Old English spearca, from Proto-Germanic *sprakô (compare Dutch spark and sprank, Middle Low German sparke), from Proto-Indo-European *sperg- (“to strew, sprinkle”) (compare Breton erc’h (“snow”), Latin sparg? (“to scatter, spread”), sparsus (“scattered”), Lithuanian sprógti (“to germinate”), Ancient Greek ??????? (spargá?, “to swell”), Avestan ????????????????????????????????????????? (frasparega, “branch, twig”), Sanskrit ??????? (parjanya, “rain, rain god”)).
Noun
spark (plural sparks)
- A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.
- A short or small burst of electrical discharge.
- A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
- (figuratively) A small amount of something, such as an idea or romantic affection, that has the potential to become something greater, just as a spark can start a fire.
- , Book IV, Chapter XVII
- But though we have, here and there, a little of this clear light, some sparks of bright knowledge
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "[1]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- Everton's Marouane Fellaini looks one certain arrival but Moyes, who also saw United held to a draw by Chelsea at Old Trafford on Monday, needs even more of a spark in a midfield that looked laboured by this team's standards.
- , Book IV, Chapter XVII
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Indomalayan genus Sinthusa.
- (in plural sparks but treated as a singular) A ship's radio operator.
- (Britain, slang) An electrician.
Synonyms
- (small particle of glowing matter): ember, gnast, funk
- (small amount of something, such as an idea, that has the potential to become something greater): beginnings, germ, glimmer
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Esperanto: sparko
Translations
Verb
spark (third-person singular simple present sparks, present participle sparking, simple past and past participle sparked)
- (transitive, figuratively) To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
- (transitive) To light; to kindle.
- 2009, Alex Jenson, The Serotonin Grand Prix (page 12)
- Byron sparked the cigarette. He sucked it dramatically and thrust it into Marko's hand.
- 2009, Alex Jenson, The Serotonin Grand Prix (page 12)
- (intransitive) To give off a spark or sparks.
Derived terms
- spark off
- sparkle
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably Scandinavian, akin to Old Norse sparkr (“sprightly”).
Noun
spark (plural sparks)
- A gallant; a foppish young man.
- The finest sparks and cleanest beaux.
- Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”
- A beau, lover.
Verb
spark (third-person singular simple present sparks, present participle sparking, simple past and past participle sparked)
- (intransitive) To woo, court; to act the gallant or beau.
Synonyms
- make love, romance, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo
Derived terms
- sparkish
- sparker
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- K-spar, Karps, Parks, Praks, parks
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse spark, verbal noun to sparka (“to kick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spark/, [sb?????]
Noun
spark n (singular definite sparket, plural indefinite spark)
- kick
Inflection
Verb
spark
- imperative of sparke
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spa??k/
Noun
spark n (genitive singular sparks, plural spørk)
- kick
Declension
Derived terms
Icelandic
Etymology
From sparka (“to kick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spar?k/
- Rhymes: -ar?k
Noun
spark n (genitive singular sparks, nominative plural spörk)
- kick
Declension
Middle English
Noun
spark
- Alternative form of sparke
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
spark n (definite singular sparket, indefinite plural spark, definite plural sparka or sparkene)
- a kick (with a foot)
Derived terms
- brassespark
- frispark
- hjørnespark
- straffespark
Related terms
- sparke
Verb
spark
- imperative of sparke
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
spark n (definite singular sparket, indefinite plural spark, definite plural sparka)
- a kick (with a foot)
Derived terms
- brassespark
- frispark
- hjørnespark
- straffespark
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse spark, from sparka (“to kick”).
Noun
spark c
- kick
- kicksled; short for sparkstötting
Declension
Anagrams
- karps, parks, skarp
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