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gray - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
- adjective Dull or dark.
- adjective Lacking in cheer; gloomy.
- adjective Having gray hair; hoary.
- adjective Old or venerable.
- adjective Intermediate in character or position, as with regard to a subjective matter.
- noun An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
- noun An object or animal of the color gray.
- noun A member of the Confederate Army in the Civil War.
- noun The Confederate Army.
- intransitive verb To make gray.
- intransitive verb To become gray.
- intransitive verb To become old; age.
- intransitive verb To include a large or increasing proportion of older people.
- noun The SI unit for the energy absorbed from ionizing radiation, equal to one joule per kilogram.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unbleached cotton fabric; a piece of cotton or worsted cloth, in the natural color of the raw material, as it comes from the loom, before it is dyed or finished.
- noun Same as
methylene gray . - noun A water-color consisting of carbon-black, lake, and indigo.
- Of a color between white and black, having little or no positive color, and only moderate luminosity; of the color of black hair which has begun to turn white, as seen at some distance.
- Having gray hairs; gray-headed.
- Old; mature: as, gray experience.
- noun A gray color or tint; a color having little or no distinctive hue (chroma) and only moderate luminosity.
- noun An animal of a gray color.
- noun A gray horse.
- noun The gray duck, or gadwall.
- noun The California gray whale; the grayback.
- noun A kind of salmon, Salmo ferox.
- noun Twilight: as, the gray of the morning, or of the evening.
- noun plural A Scottish regiment of cavalry forming the second regiment of dragoons in the British army: so called from the color of their horses. Also
Scots Grays . - To cause to become gray; change to a gray color.
- To depolish, as glass.
- In photography, to give a mezzotint effect by covering the negative during the printing with a glass slightly ground or depolished on one side. Pictures thus treated are sometimes called
Berlin portraits .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
- noun An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.
- noun (U. S. History) the Confederate army or a soldier in the confederate army.
- noun the SI unit of absorbed dosage of ionizing radiation, equal to an absorbed energy of 1 joule per kilogram of irradiated material; -- abbreviated Gy. This unit is 100 times the commonly used unit, the
rad . - adjective any color of neutral hue between white and black; white mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color.
- adjective Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
- adjective Old; mature.
- adjective gloomy; dismal.
- adjective (Min.) stibnite.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the chickara.
- adjective (Min.) smaltite.
- adjective (Min.) tetrahedrite.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the gadwall; also applied to the female mallard.
- adjective (Zoöl.) the peregrine falcon.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English grei, from Old English grǣg.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Louis Harold Gray, (1905–1965), British radiobiologist.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Named after Louis Harold Gray.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Old English grǣġ, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (compare Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár), from Pre-Germanic *ǵrēwo, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer (“to shine, to glow”) (compare Latin rāvus ("grey"), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, "to see, to glance"), Russian зреть ("to watch, to look at") (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù ("to shine")).
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Examples
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The most important and highest part of the brain is its surface, a thin layer of gray nerve-stuff, often spoken of as the _gray matter_ (the
A Handbook of Health Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Juicy Couture 's tunic-style dress in gray is a key buy, £ 155 on netaporter. com.
Chic Simple Tina Gaudoin 2010
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Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life.
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Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life.
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Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life.
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Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life.
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Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life.
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Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life.
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Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life.
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Semi-scheming, and living in the gray is a way of life.
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Lime has a chemical structure that makes it clingy or cementitious, and more so when mixed with other minerals in the shale and clays — and together they form what is called “clinker,” or “gray gold,” built of tiny interlocking crystals
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synonyms (191)
Words with the same meaning
- Quaker-colored
- achromatic
- achromic
- acier
- advanced
- advanced in life
- advanced in years
- aged
- along in years
- ancient
- anemic
- ashen
- ashy
- bay
- bayard
- black
- bleak
- bled white
- bloodless
- boring
- buckskin
- cadaverous
- calico pony
- canescence
- canescent
- chestnut
- chloranemic
- cinereous
- cinerous
- cloudy
- colorless
- dapple
- dapple-gray
- dappled
- dappled-gray
- dark
- dead
- deadly pale
- deathly pale
- dim
- dimmed
- dingy
- discolored
- dismal
- dove-colored
- dove-gray
- drab
- drabness
- drear
- drearisome
- dreary
- dull
- dullness
- dun
- dusty
- elderly
- etiolated
- exsanguinated
- exsanguine
- exsanguineous
- faded
- faint
- fallow
- flat
- funebrial
- funereal
- ghastly
- glaucescence
- glaucescent
- glaucous
- glaucousness
- gloomy
- grave
- gray with age
- gray-black
- gray-brown
- gray-colored
- gray-drab
- gray-green
- gray-haired
- gray-headed
- gray-spotted
- gray-toned
- gray-white
- grayed
- grayish
- grayishness
- grayness
- grim
- griseous
- grizzle
- grizzled
- grizzly
- grown old
- haggard
- hoar
- hoary
- hueless
- humdrum
- hypochromic
- iron-gray
- lackluster
- lead-gray
- leaden
- leadenness
- livid
- lividity
- lividness
- lurid
- lusterless
- mat
- mature
- mealy
- monotonous
- mouse-colored
- mouse-gray
- mousiness
- mousy
- muddy
- neutral
- neutral tint
- old
- old as Methuselah
- paint
- painted pony
- pale
- pale as death
- pale-faced
- pallid
- pasty
- patriarchal
- pearl
- pearl-gray
- pearly
- piebald
- pinto
- repetitive
- roan
- sad
- sallow
- same
- samely
- saturnine
- senectuous
- sickly
- silver
- silver-gray
- silvered
- silveriness
- silvery
- skewbald
- slate-colored
- slatiness
- slaty
- smoke-gray
- smokiness
- smoky
- sober
- soberness
- solemn
- somber
- somberness
- sombrous
- sorrel
- steel-gray
- steely
- stone-colored
- tallow-faced
- taupe
- tedious
- toneless
- triste
- uncolored
- unrelieved
- venerable
- wan
- washed-out
- waxen
- weak
- weariful
- wearisome
- weary
- whey-faced
- white
- white with age
- white-bearded
- white-crowned
- white-haired
- wrinkled
- wrinkly
- years old
equivalents (6)
Other words for 'gray'
hypernyms (26)
Words that are more generic or abstract
variants (1)
Variants
forms (7)
Forms
relateds (3)
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cross-references (33)
Cross-references
- alsace gray
- aniline gray
- benzo fast gray
- chicago gray
- common gray goose
- depressing
- direct gray
- dull
- french gray
- gray antimony
- gray atrophy
- gray copper
- gray cotton
- gray crow
- gray falcon
- gray fox
- gray friars
- gray goat's-beard
- gray manganese ore
- gray mare
- gray matter
- gray ore
- gray owl
- gray oxid
- gray sour
- in the gray
- malta gray
- methylene gray
- mineral gray
- new
- oxford gray
- payne's gray
- pearl gray
rhymes (245)
Words with the same terminal sound
- A
- A.
- Bay
- Bombay
- Bua
- Ca
- Cabernet
- Calais
- Cathay
- Chevrolet
- Ciskei
- Clay
- Da
- Day
- Daye
- De
- Deseret
- Dey
- Fay
- Faye
- Fe
- Frey
- Ga
- Galle
- Gay
- Gaye
- Grey
- Ha
- Hay
- Hefei
- J
- Jay
- Jose
- K
- K.
- Kay
- Kaye
- Les
- Lyonnais
- Mae
- Manet
- May
- Maye
- Mei
- Millay
- Monet
- Monterey
- Monterrey
- Moray
- Ne
- Ney
- Nikkei
- Nisei
- Ole
- Pei
- Piaget
- Rae
- Ray
- Raye
- Re
- Rea
- Rene
- Renee
- Rey
- Roget
- Schley
- Se
- Shay
- Shea
- Spey
- Sta
- Tay
- Tre
- Trey
- Una
- Uva
- Way
- Wei
- Yay
- a
- a.
- abbe
- aday
- ae
- aka
- allay
- antigay
- array
- asea
- astray
- attache
- away
- ay
- ballet
- bay
- benet
- betray
- bey
- blay
- bouquet
- brae
- bray
- buffet
- ca
- cabaret
- cabernet
- cabriolet
- cache
- cafe
- callais
- cama
- carre
- cay
- chalet
- chez
- clay
- cliche
- communique
- convey
- cray
- crochet
- croquet
- da
- dak
- day
- daye
- de
- decay
- defray
- delay
- dey
- disarray
- dismay
- disobey
- display
- dossier
- dray
- drey
- essay
- everyday
- faraway
- fay
- fey
- fiance
- filet
- fillet
- flay
- francais
- fray
- gay
- grey
- guay
- ha
- halfway
- hay
- haye
- hey
- hooray
- hurray
- intraday
- j
- jay
- k
- kay
- lait
- lay
- laye
- lei
- les
- ley
- mae
- manet
- may
- mey
- moray
- naivete
- nay
- ne
- nisei
- obey
- ok
- okay
- olay
- ole
- one-way
- overplay
- overstay
- papier-mache
- parfait
- parquet
- passe
- pay
- pei
- perrier
- play
- portray
- pray
- prepay
- prey
- puree
- purvey
- quay
- ray
- re
- redisplay
- repay
- replay
- risque
- sachet
- saute
- say
- saye
- shay
- shea
- slay
- sleigh
- soiree
- sorbet
- souffle
- spray
- stay
- stray
- survey
- sway
- tae
- tay
- they
- today
- toupee
- tray
- trey
- underpay
- underplay
- underway
- usa
- valet
- way
- waye
- weigh
- wey
- whey
- wray
- wy
- yay
- yea
yarb commented on the word gray
The name of a dog in War and Peace. The same animal is also referred to as Flabby, Azor and Femgalka.
November 16, 2007
pterodactyl commented on the word gray
For a discussion of "grey" vs. "gray" (among other things), see they.
February 8, 2009
bilby commented on the word gray
It's a greigh area.
August 19, 2010