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Words with a similar base: gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness

'gray'

[gray.n.01] as in: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

'gray'

[grey.n.06] as in: clothing that is a grey color

Examples:
he was dressed in grey

'gray'

[grey.n.04] as in: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

Examples:
the Confederate army was a vast grey

'gray'

[grey.n.07] as in: horse of a light gray or whitish color

'gray'

[gray.n.05] as in: 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'

[gray.n.06] as in: English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

'gray'

[gray.n.07] as in: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

'gray'

[gray.n.08] as in: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

'gray'

[gray.n.09] as in: United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

'gray'

[grey.v.01] as in: make grey

Examples:
The painter decided to grey the sky

'gray'

[grey.v.02] as in: turn grey

Examples:
Her hair began to grey

'gray'

[grey.s.01] as in: of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

Examples:
the little grey cells
gray flannel suit
a man with greyish hair

'gray'

[grey.s.02] as in: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge

Examples:
whose beard with age is hoar
nodded his hoary head

'gray'

[grey.s.03] as in: used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)

Examples:
a stalwart grey figure

'gray'

[grey.s.04] as in: intermediate in character or position

Examples:
a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

Origins

					gray (English)
└── grǣġ (Old English (ca. 450-1100))