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gray
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)
- Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
- Dreary, gloomy.
- 1980, Daniel C. Gerould, Stanis?aw I. Witkiewicz, The Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents
- the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation
- 1980, Daniel C. Gerould, Stanis?aw I. Witkiewicz, The Beelzebub Sonata: Plays, Essays, Documents
- Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
- 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.
- February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed)
- To become gray.
- To cause to become gray.
- (demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
- (transitive, photography) To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
Translations
Noun
gray (plural grays)
- An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
- An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
- (chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
- (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)
- 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
- 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
- gray (SI unit)
Declension
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???j/
Noun
gray m (plural grays)
- gray (SI unit)
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Noun
gray m (plural grays)
- (physics) gray (SI unit of absorbed radiation)
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- grey
Noun
gray m (plural grays)
- (ufology) gray (one of a race of evil, short extraterrestrial beings)
Swedish
Noun
gray c
- gray (SI unit)
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pyrena
English
Etymology
From New Latin pyr?na, from Ancient Greek ????? (pur?n, “stone (of fruit)”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa???i?n?/
Noun
pyrena (plural pyrenae)
- (botany) A nutlet resembling a seed, or the kernel of a drupe
Anagrams
- napery, penary
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