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–noun.1. a color made by mixing black and white.2. a gray pigment or dye.3. gray cloth or clothing.4. a gray horse.5. gray or subdued light: »
In the gray of the daybreak (Longfellow).
6. something gray.7. person wearing gray.8. an international unit for measuring absorbed doses of radiation, equal to 1 joule per kilogram. It is intended to replace the rad. »Among the SI's derived units with special names are those for…absorbed dose of radiation (the gray, or joules per kilogram) (Scientific American).
–adjective.1. having a color between black and white: »Ashes, lead, and hair becoming white with age are all gray.
2. having gray hair. SYNONYM(S): grizzled.5. Figurative. a) not clearly defined or identified: »a gray area.
b) not fully acceptable or legal: »the gray market.
6. wearing gray, as the Cistercian monks and others do.–transitive verb, intransitive verb.to make gray; become gray: »The decrease in the blood delivered to his head causes first a “graying” of his vision, then total blackness (Scientific American).
Also, especially British, grey.╂[Old English græg]–gray´ness, noun.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.