Gray (gr ), Asa 1810-1888. American botanist who greatly enlarged and improved the description of North American flora and was the chief American advocate of Charles Darwin's theories. |
| Gray, Robert 1755-1806. American explorer who twice circumnavigated the globe (1787-1790 and 1790-1793) and discovered Grays Harbor and the Columbia River (1792). |
| Gray, Thomas 1716-1771. British poet considered a forerunner of English romanticism. His most famous work is Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751). |
| gray 1 also grey (gr) adj. gray·er also grey·er, gray·est also grey·est 1. Of or relating to an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white. 2. a. Dull or dark: a gray, rainy afternoon. b. Lacking in cheer; gloomy: a gray mood. 3. a. Having gray hair; hoary. b. Old or venerable. 4. Intermediate in character or position, as with regard to a subjective matter: the gray area between their differing opinions on the film's morality. n. 1. An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white. 2. An object or animal of the color gray. 3. often Gray a. A member of the Confederate Army in the Civil War. b. The Confederate Army. v. grayed also greyed, gray·ing also grey·ing, grays also greys v.tr. To make gray. v.intr. 1. To become gray. 2. a. To become old; age. b. To include a large or increasing proportion of older people: "Federal food programs can't keep up with the nation's rapidly graying population" (Michael J. McCarthy). [Middle English grei, from Old English gr  g.]gray  ly adj.gray ness n. |
| gray 2 (gr) n. Abbr. Gy The SI unit for the energy absorbed from ionizing radiation, equal to one joule per kilogram. [After Louis Harold Gray (1905-1965), British radiobiologist.] |
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1. (Biographies / Gray, Simon (James Holiday) (1936 M, British, WRITING: writer, THEATRE: dramatist) Simon (James Holiday). born 1936, British writer: his plays include Butley (1971), The Common Pursuit (1988), and Life Support (1997)
2. (Biographies / Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) M, English, WRITING: poet) Thomas. 1716-71, English poet, best known for his Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (1751)
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(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) a variant spelling (now esp US) of grey
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(Mathematics & Measurements / Units) the derived SI unit of absorbed ionizing radiation dose or kerma equivalent to an absorption per unit mass of one joule per kilogram of irradiated material. 1 gray is equivalent to 100 rads. Symbol Gy
[named after Louis Harold Gray (1905-65), English physicist]
| gray (gr) The SI derived unit used to measure the energy absorbed by a substance per unit weight of the substance when exposed to radiation. One gray is equal to one joule per kilogram, or 100 rads. The gray is named after British physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905-1965). |
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| Noun | 1. |  gray - a neutral achromatic color midway between white and blackachromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or grey or black dapple-gray, dapple-grey, dappled-gray, dappled-grey - grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings tattletale gray, tattletale grey - a greyish white |
| 2. | gray - clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey" article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | |
| 3. | gray - any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey" organization, organisation - a group of people who work together Army of the Confederacy, Confederate Army - the southern army during the American Civil War | |
| 4. | gray - horse of a light gray or whitish color | |
| 5. | 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 radioactivity unit - a measure of radioactivity | |
| 6. | Gray - English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965) radiobiologist - a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms | |
| 7. |  Gray - English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771) | |
| 8. |  Gray - American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) | |
| 9. |  Gray - United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) | |
| Verb | 1. | gray - make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky" |
| 2. | gray - turn grey; "Her hair began to grey" | |
| Adj. | 1. | gray - 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" achromatic, neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white" |
| 2. | gray - showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?" | |
| 3. | gray - used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure" southern - in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line; "southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations" | |
| 4. | gray - intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal" intermediate - lying between two extremes in time or space or state; "going from sitting to standing without intermediate pushes with the hands"; "intermediate stages in a process"; "intermediate stops on the route"; "an intermediate range plane" |
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