- ray
- nounADJECTIVE▪ powerful▪ blinding, bright, brilliant▪
a blinding ray of light
▪ golden▪They basked in sun's warm golden rays.
▪ soft, warm▪ burning, damaging, harmful▪ dying, last▪the dying rays of a winter sun
▪ cathode, cosmic, gamma, heat, infrared, light, ultraviolet (abbreviated to UV), etc.▪the invention of the cathode ray tube
▪ the moon's, the sun'sVERB + RAY▪ emit, give off, send out▪gamma rays given off by plutonium
▪ cast, shine▪The moon cast pale rays of light on the ground.
▪ expose sb/sth to▪ block, filter out, protect sb/sth from, shield sb/sth from▪sunscreens which filter out harmful ultraviolet rays
▪ absorb▪A car window absorbs almost all UVB rays.
▪ bend, catch, deflect, reflect▪Her ring caught the rays of the setting sun.
RAY + VERB▪ filter through sth, pass through sth, penetrate sth, travel▪the moon's rays filtering through the trees
▪ shine, shine down, shine on sth▪The last of the sun's rays shone on the grass.
▪ hit sth, strike sth▪When the sun's rays hit the earth, a lot of heat is reflected back into space.
▪ damage sth▪Ultraviolet rays damage the skin.
PREPOSITION▪ in the rays of▪a stream sparkling in the rays of the June sun
PHRASES▪ a ray of light (sometimes figurative), a ray of sunlight, a ray of sunshine (sometimes figurative)▪The one ray of light in this whole affair is that justice has been done.
▪A ray of sunlight fell on the table.
▪My nephew is a little ray of sunshine.
▪ the rays of the sun
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
