gray

aggettivo

1. 1

   Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

2. 2

   figuratoDreary, gloomy, cloudy.

   the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation

   It's a pretty grey outlook for England if these are a sample of the mothers of the coming generation.

3. 3

   Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.

4. 4

   Gray-haired.

   I have already gone gray and lost my looks.

5. 5

   Old.

   Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]

   In a subculture that idealizes youth, being gay and gray does not exactly make one a hot ticket. Older gays and lesbians often relegate themselves to separate and unequal meeting places.

6. 6

   Relating to older people.

   the gray dollar

   February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.

verbo

1. 1

   To turn gray.

   My hair is beginning to gray.

2. 2

   gergoTo turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

   the graying of America

   It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.

3. 3

   To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

sostantivo

1. 1

   An achromatic colour between black and white.

2. 2

   An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

3. 3

   A gray wolf

   Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.

4. 4

   A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

   Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.

5. 5

   Synonym of grey alien.

6. 6

   A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

sostantivo

1. 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.

Forme

plurale

grays

comparativo

grayer, more gray

superlativo

grayest, most gray

passato

grayed

participio passato

grayed

participio presente

graying

3ª persona singolare

grays