gray

Verb

• turn grey
  • Her hair began to grey
    

• make grey
  • The painter decided to grey the sky
    

Adjective

• intermediate in character or position
  • a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
    

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

• showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
  • whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge
    
  • nodded his hoary head
    

• 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
    

Noun

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

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

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

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

• 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

• horse of a light gray or whitish color

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
  • the Confederate army was a vast grey
    

• clothing that is a grey color
  • he was dressed in grey
    

• a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  grey , greyish , grayish , Gray , Asa Gray , Robert Gray , Thomas Gray , Louis Harold Gray , Gy , grayness , greyness