Disperse vs. Ray

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  • Disperse

    Disperse was a Christian rock band from Southern Indiana active from 1996 to 2004. The band was formerly known, with an adjusted roster, as “Stuff.”

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  • Disperse (verb)

    To scatter in different directions

    “The Jews are dispersed among all nations.”

  • Disperse (verb)

    To break up and disappear; to dissipate

  • Disperse (verb)

    To disseminate

  • Disperse (verb)

    To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract

  • Disperse (verb)

    To distribute throughout

  • Disperse (adjective)

    Scattered or spread out.

  • Ray (noun)

    A beam of light or radiation.

    “I saw a ray of light through the clouds.”

  • Ray (noun)

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

  • Ray (noun)

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

  • Ray (noun)

    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.

  • Ray (noun)

    Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.

  • Ray (noun)

    A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.

  • Ray (noun)

    A tiny amount.

    “Unfortunately he didn’t have a ray of hope.”

  • Ray (noun)

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

  • Ray (noun)

    Array; order; arrangement; dress.

  • Ray (noun)

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

  • Ray (verb)

    To emit something as if in rays.

  • Ray (verb)

    To radiate as if in rays.

  • Ray (verb)

    To arrange. 14th-18th c.

  • Ray (verb)

    To dress, array (someone). from 14th c.

  • Ray (verb)

    To stain or soil; to defile. 16th-19th c.

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