What does GRAY mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gray, grayness, grey, greynessnoun

    a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

  2. grey, graynoun

    clothing that is a grey color

    "he was dressed in grey"

  3. grey, graynoun

    any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

    "the Confederate army was a vast grey"

  4. grey, graynoun

    horse of a light gray or whitish color

  5. gray, Gynoun

    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

  6. Gray, Louis Harold Graynoun

    English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

  7. Gray, Thomas Graynoun

    English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

  8. Gray, Robert Graynoun

    American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

  9. Gray, Asa Grayadjective

    United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

  10. grey, gray, greyish, grayishadjective

    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"

  11. grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-hairedadjective

    showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

    "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head"

  12. grey, grayadjective

    used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)

    "a stalwart grey figure"

  13. grey, grayverb

    intermediate in character or position

    "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

  14. grey, grayverb

    make grey

    "The painter decided to grey the sky"

  15. grey, grayverb

    turn grey

    "Her hair began to grey"

GCIDE

  1. Grayadjective

    gloomy; dismal.

  2. Graynoun

    (U. S. History) the Confederate army or a soldier in the confederate army; as, a battle between the blue and the gray.

  3. Graynoun

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. graynoun

    A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating. (Reference: Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243.)

  2. gray

    an extraterrestrial creature with gray skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

  3. grayverb

    To become gray or cause to become gray.

    My hair is beginning to gray.

  4. graynoun

    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

  5. grayadjective

    grey

  6. Graynoun

    ; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. GRAYadjective

    Etymology: græg, Saxon; grau, Danish; graau, Dutch.

    They left me then, when the gray headed even,
    Like a sad votarist in palmer’s weed,
    Rose from the hindmost wheels of Phœbus’ wain. John Milton.

    These gray and dun colours may be also produced by mixing whites and blacks, and by consequence differ from perfect whites, not in species of colours, but only in degree of luminousness. Isaac Newton, Opt.

    Living creatures generally do change their hair with age, turning to be gray; as is seen in men, though some earlier and some later; in horses, that are dappled and turn white; in old squirrels that turn grisly, and many others. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

    Thou hast neither forsaken me now I am become gray headed, nor suffered me to forsake thee in the late days of temptation. Izaak Walton, Life of Bishop Sanderson.

    Anon
    Gray headed men and grave, with warriors mix’d,
    Assemble. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xi.

    The restoration of gray hairs to juvenility, and renewing the exhausted marrow, may be effected. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

    Gray headed infant! and in vain grown old!
    Art thou to learn that in another’s gold
    Lie charms resistless? John Dryden, Juvenal, Sat. 13.

    We most of us are grown gray headed in our dear master’s service. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 517.

    Her gray hair’d synods damning books unread,
    And Bacon trembling for his brazen head. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

    Our women’s names are more gracious than their Cæsilia, that is, gray eyed. William Camden, Remains.

    The gray ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night,
    Chequ’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light. William Shakespeare.

    I’ll say yon gray is not the morning’s eye;
    ’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow. William Shakespeare, R. and Jul.

    Soon as the gray ey’d morning streaks the skies,
    And in the doubtful day the woodcock flies. John Gay, Trivia.

  2. Graynoun

    A badger. Robert Ainsworth

ChatGPT

  1. gray

    Gray is a neutral color that exists between black and white on a color spectrum. It is considered achromatic or devoid of color, evoking feelings of dullness, neutrality, modesty, or dreariness. In the RGB color model used in computing, gray is created by equal intensities of red, blue, and green light. The term can also apply to a cloudy, gloomy, or foggy state of weather. Additionally, it may refer to the intermediate, indefinite, or uncertain position between two extremes. In terms of aging, 'gray' can refer to the graying hair of an elderly person.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gray

    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

  2. Gray

    gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary

  3. Gray

    old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames

  4. Graynoun

    a gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint

  5. Graynoun

    an animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon

  6. Etymology: [OE. gray, grey, AS. grg, grg; akin to D. graauw, OHG. gro, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr, Icel. grr.]

Wikidata

  1. Gray

    The gray is the SI derived unit of absorbed dose, specific energy and of kerma. Such energies are typically associated with ionizing radiation such as X-rays or gamma particles or with other nuclear particles. It is defined as the absorption of one joule of such energy by one kilogram of matter. Unlike the pre-1971 roentgen, the gray has always been defined independently of any target material. The same beam of 1 roentgen would impart more grays to biological tissue than it does to air. The gray is sometimes used to measure beam kerma, in which case the reference target material must be defined explicitly. The gray was named after the British physicist Louis Harold Gray, a pioneer in the field of measurement of radium radiation and X-rays and their effects on living tissue, and was adopted as part of SI by the 15th CGPM in 1975. The SI unit is similar to the traditional cgs unit, the rad, which remains common in industry in the United States, while "strongly discouraged" in the style guide for U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology authors.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Gray

    Grey, grā, adj. of a white colour mixed with black: ash-coloured: (fig.) aged, gray-haired, mature.—n. a gray colour: an animal of a grayish colour, as a horse, &c.—v.t. to cause to become gray: to give a soft effect to a photograph by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate: to depolish.—v.i. to grow or become gray.—n. Gray′beard, one with a gray beard—hence an old man: a coarse earthenware vessel for holding liquors, a bellarmine.—adjs. Gray′-coat′ed (Shak.), having a gray coat; Gray′-eyed (Shak.), having gray eyes.—n. Gray′-fly (Milt.), the trumpet or gad fly.—adjs. Gray′-haired, Gray′-head′ed, having gray hair.—n. Gray′hound (same as Greyhound).—adj. Gray′ish, somewhat gray.—ns. Gray′-lag, the common gray or wild goose; Gray′ling, a silvery gray fish of the salmon family, but with a smaller mouth and teeth, and larger scales.—adv. Gray′ly.—ns. Gray′ness; Gray′-owl, the common tawny owl; Gray′stone, a grayish or greenish volcanic rock allied to basalt; Grayweth′er (see Greywether).—Gray mare (see Mare). [A.S. grǽg; allied to Ger. grau, and L. ravus, tawny.]

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  1. GRAY

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Who Was Who?

  1. Gray

    The man who wrote a clever cemetery poem the first line of which is remembered by everybody.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. GRAY

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gray is ranked #87 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Gray surname appeared 246,116 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 83 would have the surname Gray.

    68.6% or 169,032 total occurrences were White.
    25.1% or 61,849 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 5,931 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 5,735 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 2,240 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 1,329 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of GRAY in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of GRAY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of GRAY in a Sentence

  1. Shannen Doherty:

    I want people to not hear stage 4 cancer and think of the person that is gray and falling over and they can't move and they're going into hospice and they can't work, you get written off so quickly, even though you're vital and healthy and happy and wanting to go out there and work.

  2. Andrea Fishkin:

    Fishkin told Fox News. SCIENTISTS DISCOVER POTENTIAL CURE FOR GRAY HAIR Fishkin said her mother started going gray when she was 18, so she knew there was a good chance she would follow the same silver path. After 12 years of dyeing her hair every four to six weeks, Fishkin decided to accept her silver tresses. I get compliments every day, it really makes me who I am. I love the brightness of it, I think it really matches me really well. Women like Fishkin are not alone in their silver journey. Celebrities like Jamie Lee Curtis and Helen Mirren were some of the first to embrace full silver. And now younger women like Kendall Jenner, Pink and Lady Gaga have followed suit. We’re talking about the last five years the silver trend has been going on, and I'm amazed at how many women actually look really great with silver hair, Massey said.

  3. Phil Lounibos:

    What Oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign DNA entering someone that's bitten by an Oxitec mosquito, i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter.

  4. Elijah Cummings:

    I feel confident that the (Justice Department) will conduct thorough investigations and that the findings will help provide answers to the many questions surrounding the death of Freddie Gray and the policies and practices of the Baltimore City Police Department.

  5. Angela Lamb:

    We do not have any good research that stress directly causes gray hair.

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