Ray vs. Skate
Difference Between Ray and Skate
Raynoun
A beam of light or radiation.
I saw a ray of light through the clouds.Skatenoun
A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
Raynoun
(zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
Skatenoun
The act of skateboarding
There's time for a quick skate before dinner.Raynoun
(zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
Skatenoun
The act of roller skating or ice skating
The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.Raynoun
(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.
Skatenoun
A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding muzzles, and wide fins attached to a flat body.
Raynoun
(obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
Skatenoun
A worn-out horse.
Raynoun
(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
Skatenoun
A mean or contemptible person.
Raynoun
(colloquial) A tiny amount.
Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope.Skateverb
To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
Raynoun
A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
Skateverb
To skateboard
Raynoun
(obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
Skateverb
(skiing) To use the skating technique.
Raynoun
The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
Skateverb
(slang) To get away with something; to be acquitted of a crime for which one is manifestly guilty.
Raynoun
(music) re
Skateadjective
(skiing) Pertaining to the technique of skating.
Rayverb
(transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
Skatenoun
sports equipment that is worn on the feet to enable the wearer to glide along on wheels and to be propelled by the alternate actions of the legs
Rayverb
(intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
Skatenoun
large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
Rayverb
(obsolete) To arrange.
Skateverb
move along on skates;
The Dutch often skate along the canals in winterRayverb
To dress, array (someone).
Rayverb
(obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
Raynoun
a column of light (as from a beacon)
Raynoun
a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
Raynoun
(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
Raynoun
a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
Raynoun
the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
Raynoun
any of the stiff bony rods in the fin of a fish
Raynoun
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
Rayverb
emit as rays;
That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the skyRayverb
extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center;
spokes radiate from the hub of the wheelThis plants radiates spines in all directionsRayverb
expose to radiation;
irradiate food
