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.
- 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 . - 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 .
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
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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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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