noun
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
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clothing that is a grey color
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- he was dressed in grey
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any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
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- the Confederate army was a vast grey
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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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- equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter
- one gray equals 100 rad
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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
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English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
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Thomas Gray
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American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
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Robert Gray
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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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- The painter decided to grey the sky
verb
turn grey
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- Her hair began to grey