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ray has 11 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 10 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a column of light (as from a beacon)
a branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization
any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fish
cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
emit as rays
“That tower rays a laser beam for miles across the sky”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for ray come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.