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GRAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horse of a light gray or whitish color
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gray" is a kind of...):
mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Clothing that is a grey color
Example:
he was dressed in grey
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("gray" is a kind of...):
article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
Synonyms:
gray; grayness; grey; greyness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("gray" is a kind of...):
achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gray"):
ash gray; ash grey; silver; silver gray; silver grey (a light shade of grey)
charcoal; charcoal gray; charcoal grey; oxford gray; oxford grey (a very dark grey color)
dapple-gray; dapple-grey; dappled-gray; dappled-grey (grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings)
iron-gray; iron-grey (the color of freshly broken cast iron)
tattletale gray; tattletale grey (a greyish white)
Davy's gray; Davy's grey; iron blue; steel gray; steel grey (slightly purplish or bluish dark grey)
Derivation:
gray (turn grey)
gray (make grey)
gray (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
Example:
the Confederate army was a vast grey
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("gray" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gray"):
Army of the Confederacy; Confederate Army (the southern army during the American Civil War)
Sense 5
Meaning:
United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)
Sense 6
Meaning:
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
Synonyms:
Gray; Robert Gray
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)
Sense 7
Meaning:
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
Synonyms:
Gray; Thomas Gray
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Sense 8
Meaning:
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
Synonyms:
Gray; Louis Harold Gray
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Gray" is a kind of...):
radiobiologist (a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms)
Sense 9
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("gray" is a kind of...):
radioactivity unit (a measure of radioactivity)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
Example:
a man with greyish hair
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Derivation:
gray; grayness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Intermediate in character or position
Example:
a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Similar:
intermediate (lying between two extremes in time or space or state)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
Example:
a stalwart grey figure
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
southern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Example:
nodded his hoary head
Synonyms:
gray; gray-haired; gray-headed; grey; grey-haired; grey-headed; grizzly; hoar; hoary; white-haired
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they gray ... he / she / it grays
Past simple: grayed
Past participle: grayed
-ing form: graying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn grey
Example:
Her hair began to grey
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "gray" is one way to...):
color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
gray (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make grey
Example:
The painter decided to grey the sky
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "gray" is one way to...):
color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
gray (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
Context examples:
The colors are white, golden, tan or gray with black markings, in either solid or mixed colors.
(Borzoi, NCI Thesaurus)
It is calculated by averaging the radiation dose delivered over x,y and z directions and expressed in the SI unit of Gray (Gy).
(Computed Tomography Dose Index Volume, NCI Thesaurus)
The posterior column of gray matter extending the length of the spinal cord.
(Dorsal Horn of the Spinal Cord, NCI Thesaurus)
A serrated strip of gray matter under the medial border of the hippocampus and in its depths.
(Dentate Gyrus, NCI Thesaurus)
The nerve fibers running from the cortex to the tegmentum, pontine gray matter, and the spinal cord.
(Crus Cerebri, NCI Thesaurus)
Always, they broke camp in the dark, and the first gray of dawn found them hitting the trail with fresh miles reeled off behind them.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The gray came in just after, and thereby prevented any ill treatment which the others might have given me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The 'Last Stand of the Grays' won't be in it.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The haze particles themselves are likely gray or red, but the way they scatter blue light has gotten the attention of the New Horizons science team.
(New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto, NASA)
“Seven yards windage, Hal,” said one, whose hair was streaked with gray.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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