gray
/ɡɹeɪ//ɡɹeɪ/noun
Definitions
An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
verb
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To become gray.
Example: My hair is beginning to gray.
To cause to become gray.
To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
Example: the graying of America
To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
adjective
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Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
Dreary, gloomy.
Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
Relating to older people.
Example: the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly