gray /greɪ/
1. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
synset: gray, grayness, grey, greyness
2. clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey"
3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey"
4. horse of a light gray or whitish color
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. English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
synset: Gray, Louis_Harold_Gray
7. English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
synset: Gray, Thomas_Gray
8. American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
synset: 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)
1. make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky"
2. turn grey; "Her hair began to grey"
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"
synset: 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"
synset: 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"
4. intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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