Meaning

9 senses
  1. (US)An achromatic colour between black and white.

    a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

  2. (US)A gray dye or pigment.

  3. (US)A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of gray pigment.

  4. (US)An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

    Grau

    се́рыйséryj

  5. (US)A gray wolf

    horse of a light gray or whitish color

  6. (US)A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

  7. (US)Synonym of grey alien.

    Graue, Grauen

    clothing that is a grey color

  8. (US)A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

  9. (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.

    Gray

    грейgrej

    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

Examples

260 sentences
  1. Tom is wearing a gray suit and a red tie.

    На Томі сірий костюм та червона краватка.

    ruНа Томе серый костюм с красным галстуком.

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  2. He had gray hair.

    У нього було сиве волосся.

    ruУ него были седые волосы.

    deEr hatte graues Haar.

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  3. The sky was gray.

    Небо було сіре.

    ruНебо было серым.

    deDer Himmel war grau.

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  4. Tom has gray hair.

    Том має сиве волосся.

    ruТом седой.

    deTom hat graues Haar.

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  5. Does Tom have gray hair?

    У Тома сиве волосся?

    ruУ Тома седые волосы?

    deHat Tom graue Haare?

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
colour:
SI unit of absorbed radiation:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
colour:
extraterrestrial being:
SI unit of absorbed radiation:

Origin

From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects t

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 Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).

Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965).

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Forms

plural: grays

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black:graynessgreygreyness
  • United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888):Asa Gray
  • American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806):Robert Gray
  • English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771):Thomas Gray
  • English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965):Louis Harold Gray
  • 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:Gy

Word family

4 related words

Collocations

6 patterns
  • wearing a gray
  • gray hair
  • a gray suit
  • has gray hair
  • turned gray
  • gray suit

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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