gray
English Thesaurus
1. horse of a light gray or whitish color (noun.animal)
2. clothing that is a grey color (noun.artifact)
3. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black (noun.attribute)
| hyponym | : | iron-gray, iron-grey, |
| definition | : | the color of freshly broken cast iron (noun.attribute) |
4. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey (noun.group)
5. United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) (noun.person)
6. American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) (noun.person)
| instance hypernym | : | navigator, |
| definition | : | in earlier times, a person who explored by ship (noun.person) |
7. English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771) (noun.person)
| instance hypernym | : | poet, |
| definition | : | a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) (noun.person) |
8. English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965) (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | radiobiologist, |
| definition | : | a biologist who studies the effects of radiation on living organisms (noun.person) |
9. 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 (noun.quantity)
10. turn grey (verb.change)
11. make grey (verb.change)
12. of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black (adj.all)
13. intermediate in character or position (adj.all)
| similar | : | intermediate, |
| definition | : | lying between two extremes in time or space or state (adj.all) |
14. used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) (adj.all)
| similar | : | southern, |
| definition | : | in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line (adj.all) |
15. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair (adj.all)
| similar | : | old, |
| definition | : | (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age (adj.all) |
16. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black (noun.attribute)
| derivation | : | gray, grey, |
| definition | : | turn grey (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | gray, grey, |
| definition | : | make grey (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | gray, grayish, grey, greyish, |
| definition | : | of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black (adj.all) |
17. turn grey (verb.change)
| derivation | : | gray, grayness, grey, greyness, gray, grayness, grey, greyness, gray, grayness, grey, greyness, |
| definition | : | a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black (noun.attribute) |
18. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair (adj.all)
| derivation | : | grizzle, |
| definition | : | a grey wig (noun.artifact) |
| derivation | : | hoariness, |
| definition | : | great age (especially grey or white with age) (noun.attribute) |
19. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black (noun.attribute)
| derivation | : | gray, grey, |
| definition | : | turn grey (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | gray, grey, |
| definition | : | make grey (verb.change) |
| derivation | : | gray, grayish, grey, greyish, |
| definition | : | of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black (adj.all) |
20. turn grey (verb.change)
| derivation | : | gray, grayness, grey, greyness, gray, grayness, grey, greyness, gray, grayness, grey, greyness, |
| definition | : | a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black (noun.attribute) |
21. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair (adj.all)
| derivation | : | grizzle, |
| definition | : | a grey wig (noun.artifact) |
| derivation | : | hoariness, |
| definition | : | great age (especially grey or white with age) (noun.attribute) |
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