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gray

noun

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Sense 1 noun

a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

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Sense 2 verb

make grey

The painter decided to grey the sky

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Sense 3 adjective

of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

the little grey cells

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Sense 4 noun

clothing that is a grey color

he was dressed in grey

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Sense 5 verb

turn grey

Her hair began to grey

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Sense 6 adjective

showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

whose beard with age is hoar

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Sense 7 noun

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

the Confederate army was a vast grey

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Sense 8 adjective

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

a stalwart grey figure

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Sense 9 noun

horse of a light gray or whitish color

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Sense 10 adjective

intermediate in character or position

a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

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Sense 11 noun

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

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SenseRelationGroupWord
1 derivation Related & opposite grey
1 derivation Related & opposite grey
1 derivation Related & opposite grey
1 hypernym Types & categories achromatic color
1 hyponym Types & categories ash grey
1 hyponym Types & categories charcoal grey
1 hyponym Types & categories dapple-grey
1 hyponym Types & categories iron-grey
1 hyponym Types & categories tattletale grey
1 hyponym Types & categories iron blue
2 derivation Related & opposite gray
2 hypernym Types & categories color
3 derivation Related & opposite gray
3 similar to Related & opposite achromatic
4 hypernym Types & categories clothing
5 derivation Related & opposite gray
5 hypernym Types & categories discolour
6 derivation Related & opposite grizzle
6 derivation Related & opposite hoariness
6 derivation Related & opposite hoariness
6 similar to Related & opposite old
7 hypernym Types & categories organization
7 hyponym Types & categories Confederate Army
8 similar to Related & opposite southern
9 hypernym Types & categories mount
10 similar to Related & opposite intermediate
11 hypernym Types & categories radioactivity unit