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GREY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Horse of a light gray or whitish colorplay

Synonyms:

gray; grey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("grey" is a kind of...):

mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Clothing that is a grey colorplay

Example:

he was dressed in grey

Synonyms:

gray; grey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("grey" 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 blackplay

Synonyms:

gray; grayness; grey; greyness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("grey" 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 "grey"):

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:

grey (turn grey)

grey (make grey)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are greyplay

Example:

the Confederate army was a vast grey

Synonyms:

gray; grey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("grey" is a kind of...):

organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grey"):

Army of the Confederacy; Confederate Army (the southern army during the American Civil War)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)play

Synonyms:

Charles Grey; Grey; Second Earl Grey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)play

Synonyms:

Grey; Lady Jane Grey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)

Holonyms ("Grey" is a member of...):

House of Tudor; Tudor (an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603))

Sense 7

Meaning:

United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)play

Synonyms:

Grey; Zane Grey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

 II. (adjective) 

Comparative and superlative

Comparative: greyer  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Superlative: greyest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and blackplay

Example:

a man with greyish hair

Synonyms:

gray; grayish; grey; greyish

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

achromatic; neutral (having no hue)

Derivation:

greyness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Intermediate in character or positionplay

Example:

a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

Synonyms:

gray; grey

Classified under:

Adjectives

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)play

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 hairplay

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 grey  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it greys  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: greyed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: greyed  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: greying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn greyplay

Example:

Her hair began to grey

Synonyms:

gray; grey

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "grey" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

grey (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make greyplay

Example:

The painter decided to grey the sky

Synonyms:

gray; grey

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "grey" 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:

grey (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It presents as a grey mass covered by skin.

(External Auditory Canal Ceruminous Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

You mean, answered Elinor, with forced calmness, Mr. Willoughby's marriage with Miss Grey.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Atherosclerosis and hair greying share similar mechanisms such as impaired DNA repair, oxidative stress, inflammation, hormonal changes and senescence of functional cells.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Then, suddenly, in the grey of the morning, the words came back to me.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dummling went straight into the forest, and there sat the little grey man to whom he had given his cake.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The sky was grey in several cities west and south of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

Grey areas remain, we will have to wait at least another 6 years before knowing the long-term effects are known.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

In particular, the researchers looked at the thickness of the cortex, the outer layer of the brain – our so-called ‘grey matter’ – and compared it to each child’s body mass index (BMI).

(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)

Yet neurons grown in two dimensions are unable to replicate the complex structural organization of brain tissue, which consists of segregated regions of grey and white matter.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

Originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia and kept in captivity since 1919, these hamsters exhibit a whitish/grey/brown coat color with a black stripe down the spine.

(Chinese Hamster, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)




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