Grey

[greɪ] or [ɡre]

解释:

(noun.) horse of a light gray or whitish color.

(noun.) clothing that is a grey color; 'he was dressed in grey'.

(noun.) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; 'the Confederate army was a vast grey'.

(noun.) Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845).

(noun.) Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554).

(noun.) United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939).

(verb.) turn grey; 'Her hair began to grey'.

(verb.) make grey; 'The painter decided to grey the sky'.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) intermediate in character or position; 'a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal' .

(adj.) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); 'a stalwart grey figure' .

(adj.) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; 'whose beard with age is hoar'-Coleridge; 'nodded his hoary head' .

贝莎整理--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).

杰西整理