gray

/ɡɹeɪ/

noun

  1. 1

    An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

  2. 2

    An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

  3. 3

    An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

  4. 4

    A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

verb

  1. 1

    To become gray.

    My hair is beginning to gray.
  2. 2

    To cause to become gray.

  3. 3

    To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

    the graying of America
  4. 4

    To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.

  2. 2

    Dreary, gloomy.

  3. 3

    Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.

  4. 4

    Relating to older people.

    the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly

noun

  1. 1

    In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy

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