gray

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

See grey.

• enPR: grā, IPA^(key): /ɡɹeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ
• Homophones: grey, greige

gray (comparative grayer, superlative grayest) (American spelling, spelled “grey” in the UK and the Commonwealth)

1. Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
   • Isaac Newton

     These grey and dun colors may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks.

2. Dreary, gloomy.
   • Daniel C. Gerould

     the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation

3. Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
4. Relating to older people.

   the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly

   • Ames

     grey experience

gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed) (American spelling, spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)

1. To become gray.

   My hair is beginning to 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)

   the graying of America

gray (plural grays) (American spelling, spelled “grey” in the UK and the Commonwealth)

1. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

   grey colour:  

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.[1]

Named after Louis Harold Gray.

gray (plural grays)

1. 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

• kilogray

• gray (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Gary, Yarg, gyra

gray m

1. gray (unit of absorbed radiation)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrei̯/, [ˈɡre̞i̯]

gray

1. gray (SI unit)

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɛj/

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gray m (plural grays)

1. gray (SI unit)

gray m (plural grays)

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

• grey

gray m (plural grays)

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

gray c

1. gray (SI unit)