Definition of gray

"gray" in the noun sense

1. gray, grayness, grey, greyness

a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

2. grey, gray

clothing that is a grey color

"he was dressed in grey"

3. grey, gray

any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

"the Confederate army was a vast grey"

4. grey, gray

horse of a light gray or whitish color

5. gray, Gy

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

6. Gray, Louis Harold Gray

English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

7. Gray, Thomas Gray

English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)

8. Gray, Robert Gray

American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)

9. Gray, Asa Gray

United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)

"gray" in the verb sense

1. grey, gray

make grey

"The painter decided to grey the sky"

2. grey, gray

turn grey

"Her hair began to grey"

"gray" in the adjective sense

1. grey, gray, greyish, grayish

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"

2. grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired

showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

"whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge

"nodded his hoary head"

3. grey, gray

used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms

"a stalwart grey figure"

4. grey, gray

intermediate in character or position

"a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

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Quotations for gray

A gray eye is a sly eye,
And roguish is a brown eye,-
Turn full upon me thy eye,-
Ah, how its wavelets drown one!
A blue eye is a true eye;
Mysterious is a dark one,
Which flashes like a spark-sun!
A black eye is the best one. [ W. R. Alger ]

Gray hairs are death's blossoms. [ Schiller ]

Gray hairs are churchyard flowers. [ German Proverb ]

O good gray head which all men knew. [ Tennyson ]

Slowly, slowly falls night's curtain
Over all the wide-spread land;
And the angels of the twilight
At the gates of heaven stand.
Lo, they come, a band of angels.
Clad in robes of tender gray;
And before their gracious presence,
Fades the sun's last lingering ray. [ C. E, Charles ]

Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. [ Bryant ]

Look, the gentle day,
Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. [ William Shakespeare ]

Deep brown eyes running over with glee;
Blue eyes are pale, and gray eyes are sober;
Bonnie brown eyes are the eyes for me. [ Constance F. Woolson ]

Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far
To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth? [ Jul. Caes ]

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray,
Had in her sober livery all things clad. [ Milton ]

There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate. [ Pope ]

Confound the cats! All cats - alway -
Cats of all colors, black, white, gray;
By night a nuisance and by day - Confound the cats! [ Dobbin ]

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. [ William Shakespeare ]

Yon gray lines that fret the clouds are messengers of day. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion. [ Schiller ]

Worn, gray olive-woods, which seem the fittest foliage for a dream. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life. [ Jean Paul ]

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds, - in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray. [ Richter ]

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. [ Bancroft ]

I never knew the old gentleman with the scythe and hour-glass bring anything but gray hairs, thin cheeks, and loss of teeth. [ Dryden ]

Many a beggar at the crossway, or gray-haired shepherd on the plain, hath more of the end of all wealth than hundreds who multiply the means. [ Tupper ]

So, on the eastern summit, clad in gray, morn, like a horseman girt for travel, comes, and from his tower of mist night's watchman hurries down. [ H. K. White ]

As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of eternity. [ Bishop Heber ]

Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]

The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray. [ Willmott ]

A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics. It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses. [ Whittier ]

Few have borrowed more freely than Gray and Milton; but with a princely prodigality, they have repaid the obscure thoughts of others, with far brighter of their own - like the ocean, which drinks up the muddy water of the rivers from the flood, but replenishes them with the clearest from the shower. [ Colton ]

gray in Scrabble®

The word gray is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters gray:

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gray in Words With Friends™

The word gray is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters gray:

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Words within the letters of gray

2 letter words in gray (4 words)

3 letter words in gray (4 words)

4 letter words in gray (1 word)

gray + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving gray

Shorter words in gray

ay ray

Longer words containing gray

grayed

grayer

grayest

grayfish grayfishes

grayflies

grayfly

grayhair grayhaired

grayhound grayhounds

graying

grayish

grayling graylings

grayness

grayout grayouts

grays grayscale grayscales

grays graystone graystones

grays stingrays

graywacke graywackes

graywater graywaters

stingray stingrays