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Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
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Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.figurativelysometimes
- 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.
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Indistinct, disputed or ambiguous, especially in respect of moral acceptability, legality, etc.
- a gray area; a morally gray politician
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Gray-haired.
- I have already gone gray and lost my looks.
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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.
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Relating to older people.
- the gray dollar
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To turn gray.ergative
- My hair is beginning to gray.
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To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)slang
- the graying of America
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To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.transitive
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Less common form of gray out.form-ofuncommon
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An achromatic colour between black and white.
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A gray dye or pigment.
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A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of gray pigment.
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An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
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A gray wolf
- Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.
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A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.
- Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.
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Synonym of grey alien.US
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A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.US
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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.