gray
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adjective- 1.
(US)Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
Đồng nghĩa: grayish, grizzly, gray / grey, grayey / greyey, grayish / greyish, griseous, grisescent, hoary
- 2.
(US, figuratively, sometimes)(sometimes figurative) Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
Đồng nghĩa: bleak, sombre, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful
- 3.
(US)Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.
Đồng nghĩa: fuzzy, wooly, ambiguous, equivocal, fuzzy, generic, gray, imperspicuous, imprecise, indeterminate, indefinite, indistinct, murky, nebulous, turbid, uncertain, unclear, undefined, undefinable, vague, woolly
- 4.
(US)Gray-haired.
I have already gone gray and lost my looks.
Đồng nghĩa: grizzly, silver-haired, white-haired, gray / grey, gray-headed / grey-headed, grey-haired / gray-haired, grisly, grizzled, grizzly, hoary, mouldy, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired
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(US)Old.
Đồng nghĩa: cobwebbed, hoary, ancient, aged, age-old, antediluvian, auld, cobwebbed, cobwebby, decrepit, eld, eldern, gamol, gray, hoary, moss-grown, old, old as the hills, old as the Pyramids, olden, older than dirt, older than the hills, older than the Pyramids, venerable, wintry
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(US)Relating to older people.
the gray dollar
February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.
Đồng nghĩa: elder, geriatric, elder, elderly, geriatric, gerontologic, gerontological, long in the tooth, matured, of a certain age, old as Methuselah, on in years, over the hill, senior, superannuated, ivy-covered, preserved, wintry
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verb- 1.
(US, ergative)To turn gray.
My hair is beginning to gray.
- 2.
(US, slang)(demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
the graying of America
- 3.
(US, transitive)(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- 1.
(US)An achromatic colour between black and white.
- 2.
(US)An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
- 3.
(US)A gray wolf
- 4.
(US)A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
- 5.
(US)(chiefly US, ufology) Synonym of grey alien.
Đồng nghĩa: grey alien
- 6.
(US)(US, two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
- 7.
(US)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.
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ine-pro From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (grey), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (to green, to grow).