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Gray   /greɪ/   Listen
Gray

noun
1.
A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black.  Synonyms: grayness, grey, greyness.
2.
Clothing that is a grey color.  Synonym: grey.
3.
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey.  Synonym: grey.
4.
Horse of a light gray or whitish color.  Synonym: grey.
5.
The SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad.  Synonym: Gy.
6.
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965).  Synonym: Louis Harold Gray.
7.
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771).  Synonym: Thomas Gray.
8.
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806).  Synonym: Robert Gray.
9.
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888).  Synonym: Asa Gray.
adjective
(compar. grayer; superl. grayest)  (Written also grey)
1.
Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black.  Synonyms: grayish, grey, greyish.  "Gray flannel suit" , "A man with greyish hair"
2.
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair.  Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired.  "Nodded his hoary head"
3.
Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms).  Synonym: grey.
4.
Intermediate in character or position.  Synonym: grey.
verb
1.
Make grey.  Synonym: grey.
2.
Turn grey.  Synonym: grey.



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"Gray" Quotes from Famous Books



... the emotions of the soul, if, as Locke's blind man said, scarlet produces on the sight the effect produced upon the hearing by a blast of trumpets, it is permissible to compare this reaction of melancholy to mourning tones of gray. ...
— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac

... declivities frame a lovely picture of lowland country and far-away Connecticut or Massachusetts hills. The effects of light and shadow are such as we have never seen surpassed. This earth there seems made of gold or crimson lights, of gray seas of mist, or of every ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... disregard me, your lawful lord and master, as you every one of you did for that wretch's sake! Hang it, parson, I wasn't the master of my own house, nor head of my own family! Precious Father Gray was! Black Donald was! Oh, you shall hear!" cried Old Hurricane, in ...
— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... an iron-gray and very handsome, plunged furiously and kicked behind, but it could not do so without falling down, which it did several times before Pablo returned with the dogs. Humphrey held one part of the lasso on one side, and ...
— The Children of the New Forest • Captain Marryat

... one finger wore a heavily carved ring, from whose quaint setting glowed the cool, bright light of an emerald. Her frank curiosity showed so plainly in her face that the fine wrinkles about the young man's eyes became little radiants of amusement centering around gray pupils and his lips parted in a ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck


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