Gray

[greɪ] or [ɡre]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black.

(noun.) United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888).

(noun.) American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806).

(noun.) English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771).

(noun.) English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965).

(noun.) 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.

杰拉尔丁校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(superl.) 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; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.

(superl.) Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.

(superl.) Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.

(n.) A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.

(n.) An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.

錄入:曼蒂

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Hoary, black and white.

校對:伍德罗

解釋/意思:

adj. of a white colour mixed with black: ash-coloured: (fig.) aged gray-haired mature.—n. a gray colour: an animal of a grayish colour as a horse &c.—v.t. to cause to become gray: to give a soft effect to a photograph by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate: to depolish.—v.i. to grow or become gray.—n. Gray′beard one with a gray beard—hence an old man: a coarse earthenware vessel for holding liquors a bellarmine.—adjs. Gray′-coat′ed (Shak.) having a gray coat; Gray′-eyed (Shak.) having gray eyes.—n. Gray′-fly (Milt.) the trumpet or gad fly.—adjs. Gray′-haired Gray′-head′ed having gray hair.—n. Gray′hound (same as Greyhound).—adj. Gray′ish somewhat gray.—ns. Gray′-lag the common gray or wild goose; Gray′ling a silvery gray fish of the salmon family but with a smaller mouth and teeth and larger scales.—adv. Gray′ly.—ns. Gray′ness; Gray′-owl the common tawny owl; Gray′stone a grayish or greenish volcanic rock allied to basalt; Grayweth′er (see Greywether).—Gray mare (see Mare).

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