gray — Dizionario inglese

Aggettivo

1. Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

   Uso

   • uso statunitense

   Sinonimi

   grayishgrizzly

2. Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.

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   • uso statunitense
   • figurato
   • sometimes

   Sinonimi

   bleaksombre

   Esempi

   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.

3. Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.

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   • uso statunitense

   Sinonimi

   fuzzywooly

4. Gray-haired.

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   • uso statunitense

   Sinonimi

   grizzlysilver-hairedwhite-haired

   Esempi

   I have already gone gray and lost my looks.

5. Old.

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   • uso statunitense

   Sinonimi

   cobwebbedhoary

   Esempi

   Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.

6. Relating to older people.

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   • uso statunitense

   Sinonimi

   eldergeriatric

   Esempi

   the gray dollar

   Altri esempi (1)

   February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.

Verbo

1. To turn gray.

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   • uso statunitense
   • ergative

   Esempi

   My hair is beginning to gray.

2. To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

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   • uso statunitense
   • gergo

   Esempi

   the graying of America

   It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.

3. To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

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   • uso statunitense
   • transitivo

Sostantivo

1. An achromatic colour between black and white.

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   • uso statunitense

2. A gray dye or pigment.

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   • uso statunitense

3. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of gray pigment.

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   • uso statunitense

4. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

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   • uso statunitense

5. A gray wolf

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   • uso statunitense

   Esempi

   Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.

6. A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

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   • uso statunitense

   Esempi

   Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.

7. Synonym of grey alien.

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   • uso statunitense

8. A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

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   • uso statunitense

Sostantivo

1. 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.

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   • uso statunitense

Aggettivo

1. of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black

   Sinonimi

   greygreyishgrayish

   Esempi

   the little grey cells

   gray flannel suit

   Altri esempi (1)

   a man with greyish hair

2. showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

   Sinonimi

   greygrey-hairedgray-hairedgrey-headedgray-headedgrizzlyhoarhoarywhite-haired

   Esempi

   nodded his hoary head

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

   Sinonimi

   grey

   Esempi

   a stalwart grey figure

4. intermediate in character or position

   Sinonimi

   grey

   Esempi

   a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

Sostantivo

1. a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black

   Sinonimi

   graynessgreygreyness

   Termini più generali

   achromatic colorachromatic colour

2. clothing that is a grey color

   Sinonimi

   grey

   Termini più generali

   clothingarticle of clothingvesturewearwearablehabiliment

   Esempi

   he was dressed in grey

3. any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey

   Sinonimi

   grey

   Termini più generali

   organizationorganisation

   Esempi

   the Confederate army was a vast grey

4. horse of a light gray or whitish color

   Sinonimi

   grey

   Termini più generali

   saddle horseriding horsemount

5. 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

   Sinonimi

   Gy

   Termini più generali

   radioactivity unit

Verbo

1. make grey

   Sinonimi

   grey

   Termini più generali

   colorcolorizecolorisecolourisecolourizecolourcolor incolour in

   Esempi

   The painter decided to grey the sky

2. turn grey

   Sinonimi

   grey

   Termini più generali

   discolordiscolourcolourcolor

   Esempi

   Her hair began to grey