different between elderly vs gray

English

Etymology

elder +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??ld?li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ld?li/
• Hyphenation: eld?er?ly

Adjective

elderly

1. old; having lived for relatively many years.

   Synonyms: elder, old; see also Thesaurus:elderly

2. Of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging.

   Synonyms: dated, outworn, decrepit, timeworn; see also Thesaurus:obsolete, Thesaurus:deteriorated

Translations

Noun

elderly (plural elderlies)

1. An elderly person.
2. (with article, collective) Older people as a whole.

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English

Alternative forms

• grey (used in the UK and the Commonwealth and also in the US)

Etymology 1

From grey.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gr?, IPA^(key): /??e?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: grey, greige

Adjective

gray (comparative grayer or more gray, superlative grayest or most gray)

1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
2. Dreary, gloomy.
   • 1980, Daniel C. Gerould, Stanis?aw I. Witkiewicz, The Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents

     the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation

3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
4. Relating to older people.
   • February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington

     gray experience

   • 2004, Betty Berzon, Permanent Partners: Building Gay & Lesbian Relationships That Last (page 20)

     In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places.

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Verb

gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed)

1. To become gray.

2. To cause to become gray.
3. (demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

4. (transitive, photography) To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

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Noun

gray (plural grays)

1. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

2. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
3. (chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
4. (US, two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

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References

Etymology 2

Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965).

Noun

gray (plural grays)

2. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy

   Coordinate term: rad

Derived terms

• kilogray

Translations

Further reading

• gray (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gary, Yarg, gyra

Czech

Noun

gray m

1. gray (unit of absorbed radiation)

Further reading

• gray in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??rei?/, [??re?i?]

Noun

gray

1. gray (SI unit)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???j/

Noun

gray m (plural grays)

1. gray (SI unit)

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

gray m (plural grays)

1. (physics) gray (SI unit of absorbed radiation)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• grey

Noun

gray m (plural grays)

1. (ufology) gray (one of a race of evil, short extraterrestrial beings)

Swedish

Noun

gray c

1. gray (SI unit)