Meaning & Definition of Gray in English

1. A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

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)

7. English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

8. American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the columbia river (1755-1806)

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"

2. Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

• "Whose beard with age is hoar"-coleridge

• "Nodded his hoary head"

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"