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say it: gray
gray is a noun, adjective and verb meaning "a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black". It carries 15 recorded senses.
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
“the Confederate army was a vast grey”
horse of a light gray or whitish color
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
English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
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”
showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
“whose beard with age is hoar”
“nodded his hoary head”
intermediate in character or position
“a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gray come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.