[syn: grey, gray]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.]
[OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw,
OHG. gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
[Written also grey.]
1. any color of neutral hue between white and black; 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.
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These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I.
Newton.
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2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
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3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. -- Ames.
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4. gloomy; dismal.
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Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
Gray buck (Zool.), the chickara.
Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
Gray duck (Zool.), the gadwall; also applied to the female
mallard.
Gray falcon (Zool.) the peregrine falcon.
Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
Gray hen (Zool.), the female of the blackcock or black
grouse. See Heath grouse.
Gray mill or Gray millet (Bot.), a name of several plants
of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
Gray mullet (Zool.) any one of the numerous species of the
genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in the
Old World and America; as the European species
(Mugilid[ae] capito, and Mugilid[ae] auratus), the
American striped mullet (Mugilid[ae] albula), and the
white or silver mullet (Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis). See
Mullet.
Gray owl (Zool.), the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium
aluco). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits
arctic America.
Gray parrot (Zool.), an African parrot (Psittacus
erithacus), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its
aptness in learning to talk. Also called jako.
Gray pike. (Zool.) See Sauger.
Gray snapper (Zool.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See
Snapper.
Gray snipe (Zool.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
Gray whale (Zool.), a rather large and swift whale of the
northern Pacific (Eschrichtius robustus, formerly
Rhachianectes glaucus), having short jaws and no dorsal
fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet).
It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of
California, and is now rare; -- called also grayback,
devilfish, and hardhead. It lives up to 50 or 60 years
and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), n.
1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a
neutral or whitish tint.
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2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or
a kind of salmon.
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Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day.
That coats thy life, my gallant gray. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. (U. S. History) the Confederate army or a soldier in the
confederate army; as, a battle between the blue and the
gray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), n. [named after Louis Harold Gray, English
radiobiologist.]
the SI unit of absorbed dosage of ionizing radiation, equal
to an absorbed energy of 1 joule per kilogram of irradiated
material; -- abbreviated Gy. This unit is 100 times the
commonly used unit, the rad.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gray
adj 1: 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"
[syn: grey, gray, greyish, grayish]
2: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded
his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-
haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar,
hoary, white-haired]
3: used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil
War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure" [syn:
grey, gray]
4: intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between
clearly legal and strictly illegal" [syn: grey, gray]
n 1: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
[syn: gray, grayness, grey, greyness]
2: clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey" [syn:
grey, gray]
3: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey;
"the Confederate army was a vast grey" [syn: grey, gray]
4: horse of a light gray or whitish color [syn: grey, gray]
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 [syn: gray,
Gy]
6: English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit
of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named
(1905-1965) [syn: Gray, Louis Harold Gray]
7: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country
churchyard (1716-1771) [syn: Gray, Thomas Gray]
8: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and
who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) [syn: Gray,
Robert Gray]
9: United States botanist who specialized in North American
flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of
evolution (1810-1888) [syn: Gray, Asa Gray]
v 1: make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky" [syn:
grey, gray]
2: turn grey; "Her hair began to grey" [syn: grey, gray]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "gray":
Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, advanced,
advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient,
anemic, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, black, bleak, bled white,
bloodless, boring, buckskin, cadaverous, calico pony, canescence,
canescent, chestnut, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless,
dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead,
deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal,
dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, drabness, drear, drearisome, dreary,
dull, dullness, dun, dusty, elderly, etiolated, exsanguinated,
exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, funebrial,
funereal, ghastly, glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous,
glaucousness, gloomy, grave, gray with age, gray-black, gray-brown,
gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-haired, gray-headed,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grayishness,
grayness, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grown old,
haggard, hoar, hoary, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, iron-gray,
lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, leadenness, livid, lividity,
lividness, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, monotonous,
mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousiness, mousy, muddy, neutral,
neutral tint, old, old as Methuselah, paint, painted pony, pale,
pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, patriarchal, pearl,
pearl-gray, pearly, piebald, pinto, repetitive, roan, sad, sallow,
same, samely, saturnine, senectuous, sickly, silver, silver-gray,
silvered, silveriness, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slatiness,
slaty, smoke-gray, smokiness, smoky, sober, soberness, solemn,
somber, somberness, sombrous, sorrel, steel-gray, steely,
stone-colored, tallow-faced, taupe, tedious, toneless, triste,
uncolored, unrelieved, venerable, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak,
weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced, white, white with age,
white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wrinkled, wrinkly,
years old
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Gray
A parser generator written in Forth by Martin Anton Ertl
. Gray takes grammars in an
extended BNF and produces executable Forth code for
recursive descent parsers. There is no special support for
error handling. Version 3 runs under Tile Forth Release 2
by Mikael Patel.
(1992-05-22)
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Gray -- U.S. County in Kansas
Population (2000): 5904
Housing Units (2000): 2181
Land area (2000): 868.900957 sq. miles (2250.443051 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.439887 sq. miles (1.139302 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 869.340844 sq. miles (2251.582353 sq. km)
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.722709 N, 100.415469 W
Headwords:
Gray
Gray, KS
Gray County
Gray County, KS
U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000):
Gray -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 22744
Housing Units (2000): 10567
Land area (2000): 928.277123 sq. miles (2404.226608 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.971856 sq. miles (2.517095 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 929.248979 sq. miles (2406.743703 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 35.437533 N, 100.856145 W
Headwords:
Gray
Gray, TX
Gray County
Gray County, TX
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Gray, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 1811
Housing Units (2000): 713
Land area (2000): 2.418527 sq. miles (6.263956 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009479 sq. miles (0.024550 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.428006 sq. miles (6.288506 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34512
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.008620 N, 83.534067 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 31032
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gray, GA
Gray
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Gray, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 82
Housing Units (2000): 43
Land area (2000): 1.000854 sq. miles (2.592199 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.000854 sq. miles (2.592199 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32565
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.840074 N, 94.982547 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50110
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gray, IA
Gray
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Gray, TN -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Tennessee
Population (2000): 1273
Housing Units (2000): 586
Land area (2000): 1.677927 sq. miles (4.345811 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.005774 sq. miles (0.014954 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.683701 sq. miles (4.360765 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30700
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 36.417403 N, 82.475637 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 37615
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gray, TN
Gray
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Gray, LA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Louisiana
Population (2000): 4958
Housing Units (2000): 1799
Land area (2000): 11.640495 sq. miles (30.148743 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.640495 sq. miles (30.148743 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31180
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 29.680993 N, 90.781414 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70359
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gray, LA
Gray