Gray

/grei/ Cách viết khác : (gray) /grei/
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Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Of a color between black and white: "gray" describes an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black.
    • Dull, gloomy, or dismal: "gray" can describe something lacking in cheer or brightness, such as weather or a mood.
    • Having gray hair; aged: "gray" is used to describe hair that has turned white or silver due to age, or by extension, a person who is elderly.
    • Indeterminate or intermediate: "gray" can describe an area, issue, or situation that is not clearly defined, lying between two extremes.

  2. Noun:

    • A color between black and white: "gray" is the name for the achromatic color itself.
    • Something of a gray color: "gray" can refer to an object, animal (like a horse), or clothing of this color.
    • An organization associated with gray uniforms: Historically, "gray" can refer to the Confederate army in the American Civil War.

  3. Verb:

    • To become gray: "gray" means to turn the color gray, often used to describe hair losing its pigment with age.
    • To make gray: "gray" means to cause something to become gray in color.
Examples of Usage

  • Adjective:

    • The sky was a dull, gray color before the storm.
    • He has wise, gray eyes.
    • Her hair turned gray prematurely.
    • The legal issue occupied a gray area between two statutes.

  • Noun:

    • She prefers to wear gray because it is a neutral color.
    • The old photograph had faded to shades of gray.
    • The general led the gray into battle.

  • Verb:

    • Stress can cause your hair to gray early.
    • The artist decided to gray the background to make the subject stand out.
Advanced Usage

  • "Gray matter": (informal) intelligence or intellect, referring to the brain's tissue.

    • You need to use your gray matter to solve this puzzle.

  • "Gray power": the influence or economic power of elderly people in society.

    • Politicians are starting to pay more attention to gray power.

  • "Gray market": the trade of a commodity through distribution channels that are legal but unofficial or unauthorized.

    • He bought the camera through the gray market to save money.
Variants and Related Words
  • Grey: (adj, n, v) The standard spelling in British English. The definitions are identical to "gray".
  • Grayish (adj): somewhat gray.
    • The walls were painted a grayish blue.
  • Grayness (n): the quality or state of being gray.
    • The grayness of the winter day was depressing.
Synonyms
  • Ashen: pale gray, like ash.
  • Hoary: gray or white with age.
  • Grizzled: having gray or partly gray hair.
  • Slate: a dark bluish-gray color.
  • Silver: a light gray color resembling the metal.
  • Vague: (for the indeterminate sense) not clearly expressed or defined.
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)

(Note: "Gray" is not commonly used to form phrasal verbs. Its verbal use is typically straightforward.)

Related Idioms

  • "Gray area": a situation or topic that is not clearly defined or that falls between two categories, making it difficult to judge.

    • The ethics of the new technology are a real gray area.

  • "To give someone gray hair": to cause someone great worry or stress.

    • My teenage son is going to give me gray hair with his reckless driving.

  • "All cats are gray in the dark": (proverb) in the absence of distinguishing features, all things seem the same; physical appearance is unimportant in certain situations.

Verb
  1. turn grey
    • Her hair began to grey
  2. make grey
    • The painter decided to grey the sky
Adjective
  1. intermediate in character or position
    • a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
  2. used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
    • a stalwart grey figure
  3. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
    • whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge
    • nodded his hoary head
  4. 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
  1. United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
  2. American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
  3. English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
  4. English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
  5. 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
  6. horse of a light gray or whitish color
  7. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
    • the Confederate army was a vast grey
  8. clothing that is a grey color
    • he was dressed in grey
  9. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

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