Definition of gray

The noun gray has 9 senses? (first 4 from tagged texts)

(a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)

(clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey")

(any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey")

(horse of a light gray or whitish color)

(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)

(English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965))

(English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771))

(American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806))

(United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888))

The verb gray has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

(make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky")

(turn grey; "Her hair began to grey")

The adj gray has 4 senses? (first 3 from tagged texts)

(of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair")

(showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head")

(used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure")

(intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal")