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Gray

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Definitions for Gray

noun
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
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noun
clothing that is a grey color
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  1. he was dressed in grey
noun
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
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  1. the Confederate army was a vast grey
noun
horse of a light gray or whitish color
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noun
the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation
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Gy
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  1. equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter
  2. one gray equals 100 rad
noun
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
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Louis Harold Gray
noun
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
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Thomas Gray
noun
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
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Robert Gray
noun
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
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Asa Gray
verb
make grey
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  1. The painter decided to grey the sky
verb
turn grey
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  1. Her hair began to grey
adjective
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
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  1. the little grey cells
  2. gray flannel suit
  3. a man with greyish hair
adjective
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
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grey grey-haired gray-haired grey-headed gray-headed grizzly hoar hoary white-haired
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  1. whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge
  2. nodded his hoary head
adjective
used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
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  1. a stalwart grey figure
adjective
intermediate in character or position
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  1. a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

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