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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A beam of light or radiation.
  • A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
  • A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
  • colloquial A tiny amount.
  • mathematics A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
  • music An anglicised spelling of re.

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Proper noun:

  • A diminutive of Rachel, more often spelled Rae.
  • A diminutive of Raymond, also used as a formal male given name.
  • from=Middle English|dot= from a enm nickname meaning a king or a roe.

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Verb:

  • intransitive To radiate as if in rays
  • transitive To emit something as if in rays.

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