Definitions For Gray

noun

• Horse of a light gray or whitish color
• Clothing that is a grey color
• A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
• Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
• United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
• American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
• English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
• English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
• 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

verb

• Turn grey
• Make grey
• To become gray
• To become older

adjective

• Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
• Intermediate in character or position
• Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
• Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair