comma vs ray

comma

noun
  • A brief interval. 

  • A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways. 

  • In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma. 

  • The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list. 

  • A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia. 

  • A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence. 

verb
  • To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas. 

ray

noun
  • A tiny amount. 

  • A beam of light or radiation. 

  • A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin. 

  • A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point. 

  • A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail. 

  • The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand. 

  • One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To expose to radiation. 

  • To radiate as if in rays. 

  • To emit something as if in rays. 

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