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GREY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horse of a light gray or whitish color
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("grey" is a kind of...):
mount; riding horse; saddle horse (a lightweight horse kept for riding only)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Clothing that is a grey color
Example:
he was dressed in grey
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("grey" is a kind of...):
article of clothing; clothing; habiliment; vesture; wear; wearable (a covering designed to be worn on a person's body)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
Synonyms:
gray; grayness; grey; greyness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("grey" is a kind of...):
achromatic color; achromatic colour (a color lacking hue; white or grey or black)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grey"):
ash gray; ash grey; silver; silver gray; silver grey (a light shade of grey)
charcoal; charcoal gray; charcoal grey; oxford gray; oxford grey (a very dark grey color)
dapple-gray; dapple-grey; dappled-gray; dappled-grey (grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings)
iron-gray; iron-grey (the color of freshly broken cast iron)
tattletale gray; tattletale grey (a greyish white)
Davy's gray; Davy's grey; iron blue; steel gray; steel grey (slightly purplish or bluish dark grey)
Derivation:
grey (turn grey)
grey (make grey)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
Example:
the Confederate army was a vast grey
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("grey" is a kind of...):
organisation; organization (a group of people who work together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grey"):
Army of the Confederacy; Confederate Army (the southern army during the American Civil War)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Englishman who as Prime Minister implemented social reforms including the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire (1764-1845)
Synonyms:
Charles Grey; Grey; Second Earl Grey
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
Synonyms:
Grey; Lady Jane Grey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Queen of England (the sovereign ruler of England)
Holonyms ("Grey" is a member of...):
House of Tudor; Tudor (an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603))
Sense 7
Meaning:
United States writer of western adventure novels (1875-1939)
Synonyms:
Grey; Zane Grey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
Example:
a man with greyish hair
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
achromatic; neutral (having no hue)
Derivation:
greyness (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Intermediate in character or position
Example:
a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Similar:
intermediate (lying between two extremes in time or space or state)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
Example:
a stalwart grey figure
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
southern (in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
Example:
nodded his hoary head
Synonyms:
gray; gray-haired; gray-headed; grey; grey-haired; grey-headed; grizzly; hoar; hoary; white-haired
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they grey ... he / she / it greys
Past simple: greyed
Past participle: greyed
-ing form: greying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn grey
Example:
Her hair began to grey
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "grey" is one way to...):
color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
grey (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Make grey
Example:
The painter decided to grey the sky
Synonyms:
gray; grey
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "grey" is one way to...):
color; color in; colorise; colorize; colour; colour in; colourise; colourize (add color to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
grey (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
Context examples:
It presents as a grey mass covered by skin.
(External Auditory Canal Ceruminous Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)
You mean, answered Elinor, with forced calmness, Mr. Willoughby's marriage with Miss Grey.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Atherosclerosis and hair greying share similar mechanisms such as impaired DNA repair, oxidative stress, inflammation, hormonal changes and senescence of functional cells.
(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Then, suddenly, in the grey of the morning, the words came back to me.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dummling went straight into the forest, and there sat the little grey man to whom he had given his cake.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The sky was grey in several cities west and south of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
Grey areas remain, we will have to wait at least another 6 years before knowing the long-term effects are known.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
In particular, the researchers looked at the thickness of the cortex, the outer layer of the brain – our so-called ‘grey matter’ – and compared it to each child’s body mass index (BMI).
(Childhood obesity linked to structural differences in key brain regions, University of Cambridge)
Yet neurons grown in two dimensions are unable to replicate the complex structural organization of brain tissue, which consists of segregated regions of grey and white matter.
(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)
Originating in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia and kept in captivity since 1919, these hamsters exhibit a whitish/grey/brown coat color with a black stripe down the spine.
(Chinese Hamster, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
