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Chris -- 2018-04-11
An array is a line of ordered items, and a ray is a line of radiance, so the two share certain common elements. (I didn’t check too carefully to see how the etymology of “ray” and “array” are related … they seem different at first glance). Although some similarity of meaning is present, I’m not sure I can make full sense of the substitutional imagery except for a couple instances (below) where color is mentioned: the implicit notion that a ray of light consists an array of colors (by interaction with a prism).
Aside from hearing “a whole ray of…” on the radio today, I have these other examples:
“Building And Releasing People For Endtime Harvest …Subjects include The Life of Christ, Personal Evangelism, Post Exilic Era, Pentateuch and a whole ray of other subjects. Fees for the course are very reasonable.
www.ffwmi.com/Schools
PC widescreen wallpaper, Superman’s home, CryptonTheres also red, black, gold, a whole ray of colours each affecting superman in different ways. I knew what this was before i even clicked on it, good job hey
wallpapers.jurko.net/widescreen/pic/370
Testing the first supersonic aircraftOther pilots, like John Griffith, Scott Crossfield Stan Burchard and a whole ray of others came along after me and flew the same basic airplanes configured a little …
oea.larc.nasa.gov/PAIS/Supersonic.html
How to Videos on MonkeySee – Free Instructional VideosI think that what’s most helpful if you think first in terms of colors, flowers come in a whole ray of colors. You have your bright and vivid colors, you have your subtle tones.
www.monkeysee.com/video_clips/transcript_print/13472
afreudianslip on XangaShe’s shoveling (and she’s got a whole ray of heart problems, which this was not good for her) I’m digging by hand, without gloves, and low and behold the piece of shit wanders …
afreudianslip.xanga.com
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Nice. I wonder if there’s some connection with “a whole range of”.
Since “a whole ray of” is in reach, I wondered if “a hooray of” could be the next step. 6 hits.
Cross-cultural magazine
A good example to that came two years ago, when she won the poetry contest in Martinique over a hooray of many contestants.
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Good point about “range.” Interesting notion that as one hears both “range” and “array” over time that the blend “ray” may subconsciously emerge. (I didn’t feel like checking for “arrange” ... which is a lengthened blend).
LOL about the “hooray”.
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these boots are available in quite a arrange of colors that arrange from pastel to gleaming
If the Auras with their beautiful arrange of colors, ... Color film can capture an incredible arrange of colors that are invisible to the
Our toluene & formaldehyde free L.A. nail polishes come in a pretty arrange of colors to choose from, you’re sure to have the prettiest nails around.
(and thousands more with arranges of colors alone.)
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Likely “an arrangement of†is involved in the blending here as well, but it does seem at least possible that some would not use/know the word range in the sense of “spectrum, graded set of possibilities†and think all the times they’d heard it the word was “arrangeâ€.
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*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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