sunrayn.
/ˈsʌnreɪ/, U.S. /ˈsənˌreɪ/ 1. A ray of light emanating from the sun; a sunbeam.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > sunlight or sunshine > ray of
beamc885
sunbeamOE
sunray1596
fire-glance1662
streamer1697
sunglade1832
sun-darta1835
sun shaft1837
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa8 Tristram..Long fed his greedie eyes with the faire sight Of the bright mettall, shyning like Sunne rayes . View more context for this quotation
1614 D. Dyke Myst. Selfe-deceiuing v. 87 The flattering of the Sunne raies often drawes forth the blossomes very earely: but afterward come cold nippes.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed i. xxxiv. 155 There is abundance of Manna, which they gather diligently before sun rising, for it..vanishes so soon, as the sun rayes come upon it.
1710 T. Wing Olympia Domata sig. C7v Our Earthly Globe..hath volved it self to the greatest inclination, whereby we being farthest deflected from the Sun Rays, receive least Light.
1784 T. Robertson Inq. Fine Arts iii. 227 This number Seven has received great support from the seven colours in a sun-ray.
1829 E. A. Poe Al Aaraaf 361 The sun-ray dropp'd in Lemnos.
1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 226 Gems..twinkling like stars, dazzling like the fiercest sun-rays.
1905 ‘Q’ Shining Ferry vi. 68 The front door had a fanlight through which fell one broken sunray.
1953 Hamilton (Ohio) Daily News Jrnl. 17 Sept. 9/4 Feather pillows should be aired of a cloudy, windy day..because sunrays draw the natural oil out of the feathers.
2007 China Perspectives 71 127/1 The aesthetics of the new everyday-life Chinese cinema is..willing to welcome any beauty in the real world:..a sunray, an instant of grace.
2. A representation of a ray of sunlight, typically in the form of a broadening stripe; esp. one of a number of lines or stripes radiating outwards from a central point or disc. Usually in plural.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > divergence > [noun] > radiating > radiating figure or object
sunray1688
sunburst1867
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xix. 472/2 He beareth..a round Branched (or Headed) Tree, Vert; with the Sun Rays proceeding out of it.
1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 15 Nov. 626/2 In a circle of flashing sun-rays are two celestial birds.
1881 Art Amateur Nov. 119/1 The veil has in the middle a conventional flower with a centre of sun-rays surrounding pearls.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 20 Nov. 7/2 The reverse side [of the medal] is surmounted by an impression of the Crown, from which spring sun-rays of the conventional pattern.
1951 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 10 72/1 It represents a prince or other royal personage, with right arm outstretched toward a sunray.
1990 Vogue Sept. 207 (advt.) Intarsia sunfaces and sunrays decorate batwing sweaters and softly smocked pyramid coats in sun colours.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by light > [noun]
light cure1892
phototherapy1899
light therapy1900
actinotherapy1901
phototherapeutics1901
actinotherapeutics1909
sunray1921
photocoagulation1958
photochemotherapy1974
the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > other miscellaneous equipment
wresting thread1616
tractors1798
tetanomotor1860
examining table1877
wire instrumenta1884
wristband1884
nasal spray1888
mackintosh sheet1889
gas mask1892
bath-bed1894
inspissator1897
Murphy's button1899
trembling-chair1899
solenoid1901
sunray1921
oxygenator1928
white cane1930
white stick1930
microdrive1955
photocoagulator1965
bubble1966
stimoceiver1967
hospital gown1970
smart pill1988
1921 Arch. Dermatol. & Syphilol. 3 306 Pemphigus vulgaris, dermatitis herpetiformis.., prurigo and scleroderma have been distinctly benefited by the use of the artificial sun rays.
1928 Daily Express 27 June 3/6 The treatment of disease by artificial sun-rays.
1930 M. Kennedy Fool of Family x. 89 I wonder if sunray treatment would do her good... Sir Ivor knew nothing of sunray, and he had no faith in doctors.
Compounds
C1. attributive.
a. Designating a pattern or style of radiating pleats on a garment or in a piece of fabric; esp. designating a series of widening pleats radiating from the waistband of a skirt. Also: designating a garment or fabric pleated in this manner.
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1897 Daily News 2 Jan. 6/3 The skirt being pleated in the sun-ray fashion now so very much in vogue.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 28 June 4/2 A sunray voile skirt.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 698 The orange petticoat I had on with sunray pleats.
1935 Times 4 Nov. 9/3 Sunray pleating gives fullness from the knee.
1959 Spectator 2 Jan. 10/2 Short office skirts..and brisk housewifely sun-ray pleats.
2012 Harper's Bazaar (Nexis) Mar. 378 If you don't have a small waist from which a sun-ray skirt can fan out, you may be out of luck.
b. Designating artificial ultraviolet light used for medical treatment or (later) for tanning, esp. in sunray lamp (cf. sunlamp n. (a) at sun n.1 Compounds 5a), sunray treatment. Now chiefly historical.
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1916 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 18 Nov. 907/2 A lamp to be used for the sun ray treatment.
1928 Daily Express 27 June 3/6 The..pressing need for the sun-ray treatment to be brought within the reach of everybody by the speedy erection in all suitable places of sun-ray clinics.
1954 ‘N. Blake’ Whisper in Gloom ii. xii. 164 Does this young lady..own a sun-ray lamp?
1977 ‘C. Fremlin’ Spider-orchid xxii. 149 He looked from the bedside table to the sunray lamp.
2013 Bristol Post (Nexis) 10 Dec. 6 I was one of the recipients of so-called sun-ray treatment at Tower Hill Clinic in the 1940s.
C2.
sunray-pleated adj. pleated in the sunray style; cf. sense Compounds 1a.Quot. 1897 may represent a collocation of sunray with pleated skirts.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > having specific parts > ornamented or trimmed > pleated or folded
rodded1562
wimpled1599
fulled1816
draped1833
folded1833
box-pleated1863
kilted1896
swathed1896
sunray-pleated1897
knife-pleated1905
permanently pleated1938
1897 Myra's Jrnl. Mar. 28/1 The lovely transparent fabrics which are to be worn this year in the new ‘Sun-ray’ pleated skirts.
1935 N.Y. Times 30 June 8 x/3 Folding parasols of sun ray-pleated black Chantilly lace.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 26 Feb. (Review section) 12/2 There's a polish to his work..which suited his..pussycat-bow blouses; sunray-pleated dresses..; and exuberant kaftans, down to the ground.
Derivatives
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [adjective] > of or relating to sunlight > giving forth rays
sun-raying1850
1850 W. Allingham Poems 280 There comes no sign Through the sun-raying West.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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