gray
7 definitions found
gray - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), n. [named after Louis Harold Gray, English
radiobiologist.]
the SI unit of absorbed dosage of ionizing radiation, equal
to an absorbed energy of 1 joule per kilogram of irradiated
material; -- abbreviated Gy. This unit is 100 times the
commonly used unit, the rad.
[PJC]
Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.]
[OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw,
OHG. gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
[Written also grey.]
1. any color of neutral hue between white and black; white
mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of
ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed
color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
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These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
mixing whites and blacks. --Sir I.
Newton.
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2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
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3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. -- Ames.
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4. gloomy; dismal.
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Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
Gray buck (Zool.), the chickara.
Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
Gray duck (Zool.), the gadwall; also applied to the female
mallard.
Gray falcon (Zool.) the peregrine falcon.
Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
Gray hen (Zool.), the female of the blackcock or black
grouse. See Heath grouse.
Gray mill or Gray millet (Bot.), a name of several plants
of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
Gray mullet (Zool.) any one of the numerous species of the
genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in the
Old World and America; as the European species
(Mugilid[ae] capito, and Mugilid[ae] auratus), the
American striped mullet (Mugilid[ae] albula), and the
white or silver mullet (Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis). See
Mullet.
Gray owl (Zool.), the European tawny or brown owl (Syrnium aluco
). The great gray owl (Ulula cinerea) inhabits
arctic America.
Gray parrot (Zool.), an African parrot (Psittacus erithacus
), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its
aptness in learning to talk. Also called jako.
Gray pike. (Zool.) See Sauger.
Gray snapper (Zool.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer. See
Snapper.
Gray snipe (Zool.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
Gray whale (Zool.), a rather large and swift whale of the
northern Pacific (Eschrichtius robustus, formerly
Rhachianectes glaucus), having short jaws and no dorsal
fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet).
It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of
California, and is now rare; -- called also grayback,
devilfish, and hardhead. It lives up to 50 or 60 years
and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons.
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Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), n.
1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a
neutral or whitish tint.
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2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or
a kind of salmon.
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Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day.
That coats thy life, my gallant gray. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. (U. S. History) the Confederate army or a soldier in the
confederate army; as, a battle between the blue and the
gray.
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gray - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
gray
adj 1: of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate
between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey
cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"
[syn: grey, gray, greyish, grayish]
2: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or
white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded
his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray- haired
, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar,
hoary, white-haired]
3: used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil
War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure" [syn:
grey, gray]
4: intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between
clearly legal and strictly illegal" [syn: grey, gray]
n 1: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
[syn: gray, grayness, grey, greyness]
2: clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey" [syn:
grey, gray]
3: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey;
"the Confederate army was a vast grey" [syn: grey, gray]
4: horse of a light gray or whitish color [syn: grey, gray]
5: 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 [syn: gray,
Gy]
6: English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit
of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named
(1905-1965) [syn: Gray, Louis Harold Gray]
7: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country
churchyard (1716-1771) [syn: Gray, Thomas Gray]
8: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and
who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) [syn: Gray,
Robert Gray]
9: United States botanist who specialized in North American
flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of
evolution (1810-1888) [syn: Gray, Asa Gray]
v 1: make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky" [syn:
grey, gray]
2: turn grey; "Her hair began to grey" [syn: grey, gray]
gray - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
Gray
A parser generator written in Forth by Martin Anton Ertl
<anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>. Gray takes grammars in an
extended BNF and produces executable Forth code for
recursive descent parsers. There is no special support for
error handling. Version 3 runs under Tile Forth Release 2
by Mikael Patel.
(1992-05-22)
gray - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Gray, GA (city, FIPS 34512)
Location: 33.00739 N, 83.53575 W
Population (1990): 2189 (799 housing units)
Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 31032
Gray, IA (city, FIPS 32565)
Location: 41.84132 N, 94.98416 W
Population (1990): 83 (45 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50110
Gray, KY
Zip code(s): 40734
Gray, LA (CDP, FIPS 31180)
Location: 29.67689 N, 90.78160 W
Population (1990): 4260 (1496 housing units)
Area: 30.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 70359
Gray, ME
Zip code(s): 04039
Gray, TN (CDP, FIPS 30700)
Location: 36.41117 N, 82.47974 W
Population (1990): 1071 (444 housing units)
Area: 7.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 37615
gray - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "gray":
Quaker-colored, achromatic, achromic, acier, advanced,
advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient,
anemic, ashen, ashy, bay, bayard, black, bleak, bled white,
bloodless, boring, buckskin, cadaverous, calico pony, canescence,
canescent, chestnut, chloranemic, cinereous, cinerous, colorless,
dapple, dapple-gray, dappled, dappled-gray, dark, dead,
deadly pale, deathly pale, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, dismal,
dove-colored, dove-gray, drab, drabness, drear, drearisome, dreary,
dull, dullness, dun, dusty, elderly, etiolated, exsanguinated,
exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, flat, funebrial,
funereal, ghastly, glaucescence, glaucescent, glaucous,
glaucousness, gloomy, grave, gray with age, gray-black, gray-brown,
gray-colored, gray-drab, gray-green, gray-haired, gray-headed,
gray-spotted, gray-toned, gray-white, grayed, grayish, grayishness,
grayness, grim, griseous, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, grown old,
haggard, hoar, hoary, hueless, humdrum, hypochromic, iron-gray,
lackluster, lead-gray, leaden, leadenness, livid, lividity,
lividness, lurid, lusterless, mat, mealy, monotonous,
mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousiness, mousy, muddy, neutral,
neutral tint, old, old as Methuselah, paint, painted pony, pale,
pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, patriarchal, pearl,
pearl-gray, pearly, piebald, pinto, repetitive, roan, sad, sallow,
same, samely, saturnine, senectuous, sickly, silver, silver-gray,
silvered, silveriness, silvery, skewbald, slate-colored, slatiness,
slaty, smoke-gray, smokiness, smoky, sober, soberness, solemn,
somber, somberness, sombrous, sorrel, steel-gray, steely,
stone-colored, tallow-faced, taupe, tedious, toneless, triste,
uncolored, unrelieved, venerable, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak,
weariful, wearisome, weary, whey-faced, white, white with age,
white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wrinkled, wrinkly,
years old
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