What's the difference between ran and ray?

Ran


Definition:

  • () imp. of Run.
  • (n.) Open robbery.
  • (n.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
  • (imp.) of Run

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
  • (2) The peculiarities of the growth and extracellular accumulation of free keto and amino cids by a barotolerant culture (strain 0798) in culturing on Ran's glucose-mineral medium conditions of 1, 200, 300, and 500 atm were investigated.
  • (3) However, the external muscle fibers of the ventricles ran clockwise from base to apex toward the center of the vortex, which had a striking resemblance to the normal rather than the mirror image pattern.
  • (4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
  • (5) He stayed silent when the teacher asked him a question and afterwards I found him standing in the middle of the classroom looking totally lost as everyone ran around.
  • (6) In terms of physiology and favourable maternal and foetal outcomes, the best age for childbearing is 20-35, but in my 20s I ran from any man who might clip my wings.
  • (7) That is the strategy I’m pursuing in Nehalem, Oregon , where I recently ran for mayor.
  • (8) The two men ran Rigby down in a car before hacking him to death in the street near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London .
  • (9) ran one forecast in full, a none- too-subtle broadside at his editors.
  • (10) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
  • (11) Women in politics During the 104th session of US Congress , which ran from 1995 to 1997, 50 women were elected into the 435-member House of Representatives and nine into the 100-seat Senate.
  • (12) The tanycyte shafts extended from the floor of the fourth ventricle into the bundle, and often ran the entire length of the bundle, where they intertwined themselves among neurons and dendrites of the medullary raphe nuclei.
  • (13) Thirteen males and ten females ran on a treadmill for 30 min at 80% of previously determined maximum heart rate.
  • (14) He frequently refers to it, including in a recent television ad he ran in Iowa during which he reads to his two daughters from reimagined holiday stories with a conservative bent, such as the Hillary Clinton-targeting “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails”.
  • (15) With short-term administration of analgesics and under anti-biotic cover the post-embolic course ran without complications.
  • (16) A high-performance liquid chromatographic method with precolumn fluorescence derivatization using 2-(5-chlorocarbonyl-2-oxazolyl)-5,6-methylenedioxybenzofu ran is described for the quantification of 2',3'-dideoxyinosine, a therapeutic drug for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and 2',3'-dideoxyadenosine, an anti-human-immunodeficiency-viral agent, in rat plasma.
  • (17) There was no doubt that feelings ran deep then, but it would be another seven years before American troops withdrew.
  • (18) In the process, PR firms have grown even more influential in shaping the debate around climate policy, said James Hoggan, who ran his own public relations firm in Vancouver and founded DeSmogBlog , a blog that describes itself as “clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science”.
  • (19) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
  • (20) The intact molecule ran as a single broad band of 200 kDa, which has been identified by silver staining and immunoblotting following gel electrophoresis.

Ray


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To array.
  • (v. t.) To mark, stain, or soil; to streak; to defile.
  • (n.) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
  • (n.) One of a number of lines or parts diverging from a common point or center, like the radii of a circle; as, a star of six rays.
  • (n.) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.
  • (n.) One of the radiating spines, or cartilages, supporting the fins of fishes.
  • (n.) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
  • (n.) A line of light or heat proceeding from a radiant or reflecting point; a single element of light or heat propagated continuously; as, a solar ray; a polarized ray.
  • (n.) One of the component elements of the total radiation from a body; any definite or limited portion of the spectrum; as, the red ray; the violet ray. See Illust. under Light.
  • (n.) Sight; perception; vision; -- from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
  • (n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray.
  • (n.) To mark with long lines; to streak.
  • (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles.
  • (v. i.) To shine, as with rays.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
  • (n.) In a restricted sense, any of the broad, flat, narrow-tailed species, as the skates and sting rays. See Skate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The level of gadd45 mRNA increased rapidly after X rays at doses as low as 2 Gy.
  • (2) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
  • (3) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
  • (4) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
  • (5) A new type of Escherichia coli mutant which shows increased sensitivity to methyl methane sulfonate but not to UV light or to gamma rays was isolated after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine.
  • (6) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (7) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
  • (8) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
  • (9) The intermandibularis is probably present only in electric rays.
  • (10) Carbopol-940 gels, being the best of those used, were studied further for the effect of its concentration and of additives (benzalkonium chloride, phenylmercuric nitrate, chlorbutol and disodium edetate), autoclaving at 121 degrees C for 30 min and irradiation with gamma rays (2.5 Mrad), on the end product.
  • (11) The X-ray tube rotates outside the detector array at the rate of one revolution per second.
  • (12) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (13) Chromosome aberrations were scored in BHK21 C13 Syrian hamster fibroblasts, exposed to 60Co gamma-rays, 250 kV X-rays, 15 MeV neutrons or neutrons of mean energy 2.1 MeV produced from the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction.
  • (14) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
  • (15) Chest X-ray revealed multiple nodular lesions in both lung fields.
  • (16) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
  • (17) All patients received an X-ray study of swallow at 3 months after the operation.
  • (18) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
  • (19) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
  • (20) A chest X-ray examination showed a large mediastinal mass on the right.

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