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Gray
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- 1 Of a colour between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness. US
- 2 Dreary, gloomy, cloudy. US
"the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation"
- 3 Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability. US
- 4 Gray-haired. US
- 5 Old. US
"Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]"
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- 6 Relating to older people. US
"the gray dollar"
- 1 of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black wordnet
- 2 intermediate in character or position wordnet
- 3 used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) wordnet
- 4 showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair wordnet
- 1 A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.
"In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms."
- 2 A male given name.
- 3 A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Jones County, Georgia.
- 4 A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Audubon County, Iowa.
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
- 7 A number of places in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.
- 8 A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Washington County, Tennessee.
- 9 A rural locality in north-east Tasmania, Australia.
- 1 An achromatic colour between black and white. US
- 2 In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. US
- 3 horse of a light gray or whitish color wordnet
- 4 An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. US
- 5 clothing that is a grey color wordnet
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- 6 A gray wolf US
"Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray."
- 7 a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black wordnet
- 8 A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus. US
"Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray."
- 9 any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey wordnet
- 10 Synonym of grey alien. US
- 11 English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965) wordnet
- 12 A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating. US
- 13 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 wordnet
- 1 To turn gray. US, ergative
"My hair is beginning to gray."
- 2 turn grey wordnet
- 3 To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) US, slang
"the graying of America"
- 4 make grey wordnet
- 5 To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate. US, transitive
Etymology
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, grǣw (“grey”), from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, grǣw (“grey”), from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, grǣw (“grey”), from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”). Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965).
* As an English, Irish, Scottish, and Norman surname, from the placename Graye-sur-Mer in Calvados, from Late Latin Graecus (“Greek”). * Also as an English surname, from the adjective gray. Compare the Irish calque McGreevy. * As a French surname, from Gray, Haute-Saône in France, from the personal name Gradus, a Gallo-Roman/Celtic pronunciation of Gratus, from the name Gratius.
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