Ray vs Pay - What's the difference?
ray | pay |
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.
* Spenser
To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21
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, title= To be profitable for.
To give (something else than money).
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
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To be profitable or worth the effort.
To discharge an obligation or debt.
To suffer consequences.
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
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, passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}
Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
Pertaining to or requiring payment.
(nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
As a proper noun ray
is from a (etyl) nickname meaning a king or a roe.As a verb pay is
to give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services or pay can be (nautical|transitive) to cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc; to smear.As a noun pay is
money given in return for work; salary or wages.As an adjective pay is
operable or accessible on deposit of coins.ray
English
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 .
Etymology 6
Alternative forms.Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----pay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
T time, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
- not paying me a welcome
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
