Dayed vs Rayed - What's the difference?
dayed | rayed |
(day)
Any period of 24 hours.
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A period from midnight to the following midnight.
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(lb) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth).
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The part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.
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Part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime.
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A specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time.
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
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*:If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day , at least they did not have less.
A period of contention of a day or less.
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(rare) To spend a day (in a place).
* 2008 , Richard F. Burton, Arabian Nights, in 16 volumes , page 233:
(ray)
A beam of light or radiation.
(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.
* Alexander Pope
(mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
(colloquial) A tiny amount.
To emit something as if in rays.
To radiate as if in rays
(obsolete) To arrange.
(obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.4:
The name of the letter ?/?, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
(obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
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As verbs the difference between dayed and rayed
is that dayed is (day) while rayed is (ray).dayed
English
Verb
(head)day
English
Alternative forms
* daie (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* a broken clock is right twice a day * all-day * as the day is long * calendar day * Canada Day * daily * day after day * day-after-day * daybreak * daydream * daycare, day care * * day job * day laborer * day letter * daylight * daylily * day-neutral * day nursery * day off * day of reckoning * day one * day return * day school * daystar * daytime * day to day * day-to-day * day trader * day trip * day boarder * day bed * degree-day * dollar day * every dog has its day * field day * flag day, Flag Day * Friday * have its day * have seen one's day * holiday * holy day * judgment day * latter-day * Monday * payday * present-day * rainy day * Saturday * save the day * sick day * Sunday * Thursday * tomorrow is another day * Tuesday * Victoria day * WednesdayVerb
(en verb)- When I nighted and dayed in Damascus town,
See also
*Statistics
*rayed
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *ray
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Etymology 1
Via (etyl), from (etyl) rai, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I saw a ray of light through the clouds.
- All eyes direct their rays / On him, and crowds turn coxcombs as they gaze.
- Unfortunately he didn't have a ray of hope .
Derived terms
* death ray * gamma ray * manta ray * ray gun * stingray * X-rayVerb
(en verb)- (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Etymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m).Etymology 3
Shortened from array.Verb
(en verb)- From his soft eyes the teares he wypt away, / And form his face the filth that did it ray .
Etymology 4
From its sound, by analogy with the letters chay, jay, gay, kay, which it resembles graphically.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 5
Noun
(-)- And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray .