gray

adjective

  1. 1

    of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

    the little grey cells

    gray flannel suit

  2. 2

    intermediate in character or position

    a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

  3. 3

    used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)

    a stalwart grey figure

  4. 4

    showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

    whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge

    nodded his hoary head

noun

  1. 1

    United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

  2. 2

    horse of a light gray or whitish color

  3. 3

    American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

    he was dressed in grey

  4. 4

    clothing that is a grey color

    he was dressed in grey

  5. 5

    English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

  6. 6

    a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

  7. 7

    any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

    the Confederate army was a vast grey

  8. 8

    English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

    the Confederate army was a vast grey

  9. 9

    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

verb

  1. 1

    turn grey

    Her hair began to grey

  2. 2

    make grey

    The painter decided to grey the sky

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