gray American English spelling


gray - noun

  • a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
  • clothing that is a grey color
  • any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
  • horse of a light gray or whitish color
  • 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
  • English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
  • English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
  • American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
  • United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

  • gray - verb

    • make grey
    • turn grey

    gray - adjective

    • of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
    • showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
    • used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
    • intermediate in character or position

    gray - thesaurus

    grayish American English spelling   grayness American English spelling   grey British English spelling   greyish British English spelling   greyness British English spelling   grizzly   gy   hoar   hoary  


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    Scrabble score for gray

    g is 2 r is 1 a is 1 y is 4
    Scrabble score = 8

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