Definitions for gray

Definitions for (noun) gray

Main entry: gray, grey

Definition: horse of a light gray or whitish color


Main entry: gray, grey

Definition: clothing that is a grey color

Usage: he was dressed in grey


Main entry: gray, grayness, grey, greyness

Definition: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black


Main entry: gray, grey

Definition: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

Usage: the Confederate army was a vast grey


Main entry: Gray, Asa Gray

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


Main entry: Robert Gray, Gray

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


Main entry: Gray, Thomas Gray

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


Main entry: 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)


Main entry: Gy, gray

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


Definitions for (verb) gray

Main entry: gray, grey

Definition: turn grey

Usage: Her hair began to grey


Main entry: gray, grey

Definition: make grey

Usage: The painter decided to grey the sky


Definitions for (adj) gray

Main entry: 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


Main entry: gray, grey

Definition: intermediate in character or position

Usage: a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal


Main entry: gray, grey

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

Usage: a stalwart grey figure


Main entry: 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


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