Gray
[greɪ] or [ɡre]
Definition
(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.
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Definition
(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.
Checker: Mandy
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Hoary, black and white.
Editor: Woodrow
Definition
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).
Edited by Hattie
Examples
- I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was riding a big gray gelding and he wore a khaki beret, a blanket cape like a poncho, and heavy black boots. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Some distance off, across a paddock, lay a long gray-tiled out-building. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- M. Le Gray, of Paris, was the first to suggest collodion for this purpose, but Mr. Scott Archer, of London, in 1851, was the first to carry it out practically. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Means for quarter sawing in both directions of log travel are shown in patent to Gray, No. 550,825, December 3, 1895. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The plaster of the broken houses was gray and wet. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She was very gray and weak and tired. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A brougham was coming down it, and there could be no mistaking those gray horses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A pearl-white moon smiles through the gray trees; does he care for her smile? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A brougham and pair of grays, under the glare of a gas-lamp, stood before the doctor's door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was twenty minutes, and the reds had all faded into grays before Holmes and the trainer reappeared. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- These colors were bright, and were generally yellows, blues, and grays, although sometimes he used greens, violets, and browns. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For example, with alum and oxalic acid as a mordant and logwood as a dye, blue is obtained; but with a mordant of ferric sulphate and a dye of logwood, blacks and grays result. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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