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gray   (TTS Sound)

The noun gray has 9 senses

• gray, grayness, grey, greyness -- (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)


• grey, gray -- (clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey")


• grey, gray -- (any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey")


• grey, gray -- (horse of a light gray or whitish color)


• gray, Gy -- (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)


• Gray, Louis Harold Gray -- (English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965))


• Gray, Thomas Gray -- (English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771))


• Gray, Robert Gray -- (American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806))


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

The verb gray has 2 senses

• grey, gray -- (make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky")


• grey, gray -- (turn grey; "Her hair began to grey")

The adj gray has 4 senses

• grey, gray, greyish, grayish -- (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")


• grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired -- (showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head")


• grey, gray -- (used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure")


• grey, gray -- (intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal")