Noun
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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)
- asa gray -
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
- robert gray -
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
- thomas gray -
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
- louis harold gray -
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
- gy -
horse of a light gray or whitish color
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any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
"the Confederate army was a vast grey"
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clothing that is a grey color
"he was dressed in grey"
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a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
Verb
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turn grey
"Her hair began to grey"
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make grey
"The painter decided to grey the sky"
Adjective
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intermediate in character or position
"a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
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used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
"a stalwart grey figure"
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showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge
"nodded his hoary head"
- grey haired - gray haired - grey headed - gray headed - white haired -
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
"the little grey cells"
"gray flannel suit"
"a man with greyish hair"