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English to English adjective
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White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove. |  | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black | | Example: the little grey cells
gray flannel suit
a man with greyish hair
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showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | | Example: whose beard with age is hoar
nodded his hoary head
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used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) | | Example: a stalwart grey figure
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intermediate in character or position | | Example: a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
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noun
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a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black | | source: wordnet30
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clothing that is a grey color | | Example: he was dressed in grey
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any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey | | Example: the Confederate army was a vast grey
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horse of a light gray or whitish color | | source: wordnet30
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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 | | source: wordnet30
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English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965) | | source: wordnet30
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English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771) | | source: wordnet30
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American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) | | source: wordnet30
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United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) | | source: wordnet30
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A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint. | | source: webster1913
verb
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make grey | | Example: The painter decided to grey the sky
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turn grey | | Example: Her hair began to grey
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