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英英字典: Gray


KK Pronunciation

〔 gre 〕

Pronunciation

〔 ɡrei 〕


Overview of noun gray

The noun gray has 9 senses


  • gray, grayness, grey, greyness -- (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)

  • grey, gray -- (clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey")

  • grey, gray -- (any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey")

  • grey, gray -- (horse of a light gray or whitish color)

  • gray, Gy -- (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)

  • Gray, Louis Harold Gray -- (English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965))

  • Gray, Thomas Gray -- (English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771))

  • Gray, Robert Gray -- (American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806))

  • Gray, Asa Gray -- (United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888))


Overview of verb gray

The verb gray has 2 senses


  • grey, gray -- (make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky")

  • grey, gray -- (turn grey; "Her hair began to grey")


Overview of adj gray

The adj gray has 4 senses


  • grey, gray, greyish, grayish -- (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")

  • grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired -- (showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head")

  • grey, gray -- (used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure")

  • grey, gray -- (intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal")

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