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Meaning of grays

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

grays

Pronunciation:/ɡɹeɪz/

noun

Definitions

  1. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

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

  3. An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

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

verb

Definitions

  1. To become gray.

    Example: My hair is beginning to gray.

  2. To cause to become gray.

  3. 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

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

noun

Definitions

  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. Symbol: Gy