Gray - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- clothing that is a grey color (syn: grey)
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey (syn: grey)
- horse of a light gray or whitish color (syn: grey)
- 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
- English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
- English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
- American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
verb
adjective
- used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) (syn: grey)
- intermediate in character or position (syn: grey)
Extra examples
What will you do when you are old and gray?
My friends have all gone gray.
It was a gray winter day.
Gray hair is one of the natural consequences of getting older.
Those gray skies promise rain.
He wore his gray suit to the job interview.
... the three of them may give Gray Davis, who was too clever for his own good, his comeuppance.
... they looked with contempt at the bloodless gray arthritic hands of the old woman ...
She was wearing a demure gray suit.
It was a gray, dreary morning.
The epitaph reads “In loving memory of John Gray: husband, father, soldier.”
He wore a dark blazer and gray flannels.
He wore a modish gray suit and hat.
Gianni Versace is an amiable smoothy with a light touch and a corona of gray hair.
...a white granite boulder begirt with a band of dark gray...
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