Ray
Ray noun - A very small amount.
Usage example: the tapping sound ceased, extinguishing the last ray of hope that the trapped miners were still alive
Nearby Words: rayed, raying, raye
Stack
Stack noun - A considerable amount.
Usage example: earned a stack of money for writing the screenplay
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Distracted by the Sexy: Melanie and her friend appear in bikinis (they're going to Spain after all), so the men at the x-ray machine don't notice the huge stack of paper money in her bag.
Source: Film / Bang Boom Bang -
Running Gag: The bits with the newspaper vendor, played by Ray Walston, getting beaned by a stack of newspapers, which cures his blindness, then makes him deaf, then gives him amnesia.
Source: Film / Johnny Dangerously -
When Dr Nookey's enthusiasm with the X-ray machine causes the hospital's electrical system to fail catastrophically, there is a brief scene in which the patients' bedpan lights are all going off at once, and a flustered nurse is hastily assembling a huge stack of bedpans to carry into the ward.
Source: Film / Carry On Again, Doctor
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