Definition: horse of a light gray or whitish color
Similar words: mount, riding horse, saddle horse
Definition: a lightweight horse kept for riding only
Definition: clothing that is a grey color
Usage: he was dressed in grey
Similar words: clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, article of clothing, habiliment
Definition: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
Synonyms: gray, grayness, grey, greyness
Definition: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
Similar words: achromatic color, achromatic colour
Definition: a color lacking hue; white or grey or black
Definition: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
Usage: the Confederate army was a vast grey
Similar words: organisation, organization
Definition: a group of people who work together
Definition: United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
Similar words: botanist, phytologist, plant scientist
Definition: a biologist specializing in the study of plants
Synonyms: Robert Gray, Gray
Definition: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
Similar words: navigator
Definition: in earlier times, a person who explored by ship
Synonyms: Gray, Thomas Gray
Definition: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
Similar words: poet
Definition: a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
Synonyms: Gray, Louis Harold Gray
Definition: English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
Similar words: radiobiologist
Definition: a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms
Definition: 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
Similar words: radioactivity unit
Definition: a measure of radioactivity
Definition: turn grey
Usage: Her hair began to grey
Similar words: color, colour, discolor, discolour
Definition: change color, often in an undesired manner
Usage: The shirts discolored
Definition: make grey
Usage: The painter decided to grey the sky
Similar words: color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize
Definition: add color to
Usage: The child colored the drawings; Fall colored the trees; colorize black and white film
Synonyms: gray, grayish, grey, greyish
Definition: of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
Usage: the little grey cells; gray flannel suit; a man with greyish hair
Similar words: achromatic, neutral
Definition: having no hue
Usage: neutral colors like black or white
Definition: intermediate in character or position
Usage: a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
Similar words: intermediate
Definition: lying between two extremes in time or space or state
Usage: going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands; intermediate stages in a process; intermediate stops on the route; an intermediate range plane
Definition: used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
Usage: a stalwart grey figure
Similar words: southern
Definition: in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
Usage: southern hospitality; southern cooking; southern plantations
Synonyms: white-haired, hoar, hoary, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, grizzly
Definition: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Usage: whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge; nodded his hoary head
Similar words: old
Definition: (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
Usage: his mother is very old; a ripe old age; how old are you?