Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having rays or ray-like processes, as a flower-head or an animal; specifically, in zoology, radiate.
- Having rays (of this or that kind): as, a many- rayed fin; a soft- rayed fish.
- Striped.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ray .
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Examples
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The open chicory flower and the pollen grain are both polygonal and rayed from the centre.
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She slept with her head on his pillow and her hair spread out, 'rayed' out, was how he put it, 'like the sun in splendour'.
Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000
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At the broad landing at the top the altar was about waist-high, and now for the first time they made out that at the back there was a big sitting figure, whose breast seemed to be covered with a kind of rayed shield; but everything was indistinct in the flickering light, and the figure was absolutely clothed in dust.
Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig George Manville Fenn 1870
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Assange was certain "we wouldn't be safe walking down the street, that our mail and suitcases were being X-rayed, that we had to go underground ... and needed bulletproof vests," the book says.
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Assange was certain "we wouldn't be safe walking down the street, that our mail and suitcases were being X-rayed, that we had to go underground ... and needed bulletproof vests," the book says.
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“The restorative experts noticed the crystalline point of its top and immediately sent it out to be x-rayed and ultrasound imaged.” to
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum 2009
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The restorative experts noticed the crystalline point of its top and immediately sent it out to be x-rayed and ultrasound imaged.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum 2009
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They all should be taken to a hospital and have their heads x-rayed to see what is really inside there.
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If you don't believe this I encourage you to take your next deer to a veterinarian and have it x-rayed.
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And whoever wishes to become famous and popular has no other way to achieve it but to offer him/herself to the media's spotlight to be stripped naked, scrutinized, and x-rayed from head to toes, inside - out, from birth to present and be exposed of all vices and virtues, ignorance and talents.
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