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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
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