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1. Of an achromatic colour of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
   - grey [Brit, Cdn], greyish [Brit, Cdn], grayish [US]
    
2. Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
   - grey [Brit, Cdn], grey-haired [Brit, Cdn], gray-haired [US], grey-headed [Brit, Cdn], gray-headed [US], grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired
    
3. Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
   - grey [Brit, Cdn]
    
4. Intermediate in character or position
   - grey [Brit, Cdn]

1. A neutral achromatic colour midway between white and black
   - grayness [US], grey [Brit, Cdn], greyness [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. Clothing that is a grey colour
   - grey [Brit, Cdn]
    
3. Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
   - grey [Brit, Cdn]
    
4. Horse of a light grey or whitish colour
   - grey [Brit, Cdn]
    
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 grey equals 100 rad
   - Gy, grey [Brit, Cdn]

1. Make grey
   - grey [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. Turn grey
   - grey [Brit, Cdn]

1. American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
   - Robert Gray
    
2. English radiobiologist in whose honour the grey (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
   - Louis Harold Gray
    
3. English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
   - Thomas Gray
    
4. United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
   - Asa Gray

Derived forms: grayed, grayer, grayest, graying, grays

See also: achromatic, intermediate, neutral, old, southern

Type of: achromatic color [US], achromatic colour [Brit, Cdn], article of clothing, botanist, clothing, color [US], color in [US], colorise [Brit], colorize [US], colour [Brit, Cdn], colour in [Brit, Cdn], colourise [Brit], colourize [Brit, Cdn], discolor [US], discolour [Brit, Cdn], habiliment [archaic], mount, navigator, organisation [Brit], organization, phytologist, plant scientist, poet, radioactivity unit, radiobiologist, riding horse, saddle horse, vesture, wear, wearable

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