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Definition of grey in English: grey(US gray) adjectivegreyer, greyest ɡreɪ 1Of a colour intermediate between black and white, as of ashes or lead. his hair was grey and wispy Example sentencesExamples - I'm sat on the upper floor of a Starbuck's on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, watching people come and go in the grey drizzle, while I catch up on my e-mail.
- He wore white T-shirt and dark gray pants with black belt.
- Gray chairs and a dull gray carpet give the visiting area a stark, lifeless appearance.
- Boys will wear black shoes, grey trousers, a white airtex polo shirt, and a navy v-neck sweatshirt featuring the school's specially designed logo.
- Every day she is getting closer to her 50th birthday and her honey blonde hair is slowly turning grey.
- After leaving Provence, grey skies and damp weather seem like an affront to the senses.
- Out in the playground during break boys dash around kicking a ball, their white shirts hanging out of their grey flannel trousers.
- People who dye their grey hair need to keep their roots up to date and never let them grow to an inch long.
- The narrow roads add to the town's character and are lined with grey buildings built out of Bath stone.
- He is of a medium build and has short grey receding hair and a moustache.
- One complaint, though: white / gray text on a black background is just plain painful on the eyes.
- She could feel Mike looking at her, his gray eyes boring into her.
- The skies were grey and cloudy, and it was growing darker at an alarming rate.
- Manda opened the door, and found herself looking at an elderly woman in a gray suit, sitting behind her desk.
- Thick gray rain clouds hid the sun, and there was a hint of thunder in the air.
- The fresh-faced 52-year-old looks energetic and youthful, despite his thinning grey hair and glasses.
- A cast-iron open fireplace with a pale grey marble mantel provides a focal point.
- Opposite him sat a tall girl who looked to be no more than in her early twenties with long curly dark brown hair and thin piercing grey eyes.
- Off on the horizon, dark grey storm clouds gathered.
- Pulling on his hat and scarf he walked out into the gray fog of San Francisco.
Synonyms greyish, silvery silver-grey, pearl-grey, pearly, gunmetal grey, slate-grey, smoke-grey, smoky, sooty white, silver, hoary ashen, wan, pale, pasty, pallid, colourless, sallow, leaden, bloodless, anaemic, white, waxen, chalky sickly, peaked, drained, sapped, washed-out, drawn, deathly, deathlike, ghostly informal peaky - 1.1 (of the weather) cloudy and dull.
a cold, grey November day Example sentencesExamples - The day went by quickly, everybody's mood seemed to be glum and the gray and rainy weather outside didn't help.
- Tannadice was enveloped by the kind of dreich, grey weather which made you wonder whether the floodlights would have sufficient wattage to illuminate the pitch.
- For the past three years Maggie Hall has been escaping the cold, grey winters of the UK.
- The weather started out grey and chill but has warmed steadily until, today, I resorted to wearing a pair of scruffy old shorts around the house and garden.
- It may be cloudy and grey outside, but I'm warm at the moment.
- Well, it was a midweek afternoon in November; the weather was grey and dank and not much was happening.
- With the weather being dull and grey outside, I am in shopping mood today.
- He looked exactly the same as yesterday, though that may have had something to do with the fact that the weather was grey and cloudy.
- The day dawned cloudy and gray, not typically amusement park weather, but absolutely perfect to avoid crowds.
- The Phipps Bridge estate does not look very welcoming on a grey and wet January afternoon.
- The weather was cool, grey and moist, and the scenery pretty bleak, but spectacular nonetheless.
- Last winter, I went to Tucson for a little break from the gray weather and cold in Northern California.
- Now normally you couldn't pay me to go to Hamleys but the grey weather was getting us all down.
- It is a grey morning, though the sun is trying to break through.
- It was grey and cloudy and looked as if a storm were in the works.
- The weather is gray and gloomy throughout much of the country.
- No great penalty because the weather has turned somewhat grey and dour, with a bite in the wind that's guaranteed to find its way through all but the stoutest of outdoor clothing.
- The weather was overcast and gray but rain held off for the entire day until the group was on its way back to the cars.
- Woody Allen says he loves London's famous gray and dreary weather and its residents' ever-expressive slang.
- It's grey and dull and slightly damp (like my spirits).
Synonyms cloudy, overcast, dull, dim, dark, sunless gloomy, dreary, dismal, sombre, drab, bleak, cheerless, depressing, glum misty, foggy, murky - 1.2 (of a person) having grey hair.
as complement she's getting on a bit, and going grey Example sentencesExamples - Wearing a brown jacket, blue shirt and blue jeans, he's undoubtedly grey.
- There's nothing wrong with changing your hair if you're going grey and don't like it.
- When the allegations became public Leslie turned grey overnight.
- When it comes to their own hair, many men seem to feel that going grey somehow just happened to them.
- He's grey, got a few miles on the clock and hooks into the public purse as though he was a fair-dinkum member of the royal family, but a merry old soul he is not.
- He had gone quite grey, she noticed, since her last visit.
- I started going grey when I was 19.
- No wonder I'm completely gray; you two have worried the color plumb out of my hair.
- Tall, unsmiling and prematurely grey, he lacks the personal presence you might expect from a media power-player.
Synonyms grey-haired, hoary, grizzled - 1.3informal Relating to old people collectively.
Example sentencesExamples - At the same time, driven by less positive reasons - such as poverty and exasperation - we are witnessing a real growth of grey power.
- Away from the political and economic aspects of grey power, a quiet revolution is taking place in the retirement housing market.
- ‘If grey power gets itself organised, they'll be the most fantastic force in the land,’ she says.
- Tourism chiefs are waking up to the power of the grey pound, with VisitScotland now predicting the bulk of tourism income will come from the cash-rich over-50s.
- In America, grey power is the key to electoral victory.
- This retirement community is the ultimate expression of grey power.
- Moreover, others warn, the burden of financing Scotland's new grey army could put further pressure on the UK.
- The growing importance of the ‘grey market’ has shattered the travel industry's traditional view of older clients and is forcing tour operators to take people over the age of 55 more seriously.
- Several companies have launched savings accounts aimed at what they call the grey market.
- In a wry demonstration of grey power, the young are finally saved from annihilation when the professor assembles a team of aged scientists who are immune to the alien attraction.
- In addition, it is worth noting, Bush has struck a blow for grey power.
- It felt more like a rally of the grey power movement.
- With Britain's population ageing, the power of the grey pound is constantly on the increase.
Synonyms grey-haired, hoary, grizzled - 1.4 (of a person's face) pale, as through tiredness, age, or illness.
his face looked grey and drawn Example sentencesExamples - When I turned to look at him, I was shocked to see his face was gray, covered in perspiration and his breathing was shallow.
- He turned to see Ned staggering, and then collapsing on to the floor, his face ghostly grey with beads of sweat across his forehead.
- Keziah could see the boy's shoulders sagging with exhaustion, and his face was grey with fatigue.
- Even though his face was so gray, red patches of fever burned in his cheeks.
- Their guru's eyes were deep in their sockets, his face was gray, his lips were curled and his throat was dry.
- My sister's face was gray with tears and I knew that I had not caused them, I hadn't been there.
- His brown eyes were quite noticeable on his otherwise gray face.
- He was grey and barely breathing - six days after he was first admitted after suffering a series of fits at his family's home in Flamborough.
- She was grey, she was cold, I picked her up and patted her back and got no response.
- Matt's hair was untamed and messy and his face was grey with hot red flushes in his cheeks.
Synonyms pale, deathly pale, pallid, white, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, corpse-like, deathlike, ghostly
2Without interest or character; dull and nondescript. Example sentencesExamples - The Holloway road is a grim grey artery filled with traffic pollution and lined by nondescript retail outlets.
- But as long as it doesn't serve the economical interests of the grey men, those who control the governments that control the world, it won't happen.
- I went along for an interview in London, and a particularly grey, faceless person interviewed me.
- Zahariev works at a gas station and participation in the contest brought him a ray of light from his normally gray and monotonous routine.
- Certainly as far as a candidate and a politician, he is gray.
- Color is emotion, the opposite of the gray world of accounting.
Synonyms characterless, colourless, nondescript, unremarkable, faceless lifeless, soulless, passionless, spiritless, insipid, jejune, flat, bland, dry, stale dull, uninteresting, unimaginative, boring, tedious, monotonous neutral, anonymous, wishy-washy 3(of financial or trading activity) not accounted for in official statistics. Example sentencesExamples - According to the e-zine, the share of the grey economy in Bulgaria has been growing since 1993.
- Purvanov said he had no information on any relationship between those in the grey economy, and political parties.
- Increased use of electronic payments is one way to decrease the share of the grey economy.
- The country's grey economy is robbing the Government of close to €1.6 billion in unpaid taxes annually.
- In his opinion, the idea of the measures was rather to bring a larger part of the gray economy into the light.
- UDF MP Nikola Nikolov told a news conference that for his party, such an amendment to the law will reduce the grey economy in this sector.
- The latest studies indicate that the grey economy in Bulgaria is at 20 per cent.
- The higher rates will doom some companies, while others will be forced to shift into the grey economy in order to survive.
- Actually, the so-called grey economy operates very well outside official regulation.
- Finance Minister Milen Velchev believes that the grey economy has receded in Bulgaria in recent years, albeit by a modest degree.
- Some analysts believe that it will increase the scale of the grey economy.
- This next phase would build on existing measures to clamp down on the grey economy and close the loopholes allowing for tax evasion.
- Sixty five per cent of the transactions are done by the grey economy.
- According to one authoritative estimate, nearly a quarter of India's economy is in the grey economy - almost twice the level of China.
- Most children working without a contract are hired in the grey economy.
- No less alarming was the growing grey economy consistently sustained by well-organised smuggling networks and crime groups.
- One of the problems was that these labourers were working in a part of the grey economy that is free of those often decried regulations.
Synonyms unofficial, informal, irregular, back-door 4South African historical Relating to an ethnically mixed residential area. Example sentencesExamples - Rand Afrikaans University researchers have listed 13 ‘grey’ suburbs in cities across SA.
noun ɡreɪ 1mass noun Grey colour or pigment. dirty intermediate tones of grey Example sentencesExamples - The sky is now a uniform shade of grey and it's raining fairly steadily.
- The sets are effective; economical and fairly traditional, with drained out colour, predominantly greys and blues.
- It's a startling shade of blue grey, but apart from that, it's very well styled.
- Oriental blue and silver gray are the colors traditionally associated with Military Intelligence units.
- Today the restaurant is a discreetly elegant affair, all subtle greys and white.
- The sun was just beginning to set and the sky was a combination of blue, orange and gray.
- The film is dominated by the grays, whites, and browns of Newfoundland in the early spring.
- Instead, opt for solid colors such as plain whites, blacks and grays; they're classics and can easily be matched with the rest of your wardrobe.
- He will wear more earthy tones such as brown, and of course, black, white and gray.
- The snow seemed amazingly white against the cold grey of an Ontario winter sky.
- The anemic palate that colours the film - grays, browns, and other hushed earth tones - provide the foreboding backdrop.
- I'd go for a dark shade of gray because it blends well with just about everything.
- His hair was also a light gray that looked almost white, but it was very short, like it had just been shaved.
- It was only two o'clock, yet the sky was a deep grey dotted with small white clouds.
- Suit colours for the summer include stone, muted grey, cream and oyster.
- Their water pots are a sudden burst of colour against the dusty grey of the road.
- Although the set is colourful, the costumes themselves range from shades of grey to black and white.
- I know that grey isn't the best background colour to use on a webpage, but I'll put up with it.
- Although the underlying colour scheme of grey and red remains the same, some old pieces have been dropped and new ones added.
- His eyes were a very deep grey, almost blue, but they were still very familiar.
- 1.1 Grey clothes or material.
Example sentencesExamples - A woman entered dressed in dark gray, the dress was similar to mine, but the shoulders were covered.
- For this show, Marc continues the dark, gloomy feel with black, navy and gray.
- The one in charge had gray hair and was wearing gray.
- Ethan's train of thought was cut short by a man dressed in monochromatic gray.
- Diago wore gray beneath his white robes as well, though he hid it better.
- They walked quickly over to a young man in charcoal grey, with hair the same color.
- My attire that evening, as my father had requested, was a gown of ivory silk overlaid in a surcoat of deep grey.
- There are two pairs of dancers on stage, one dressed in red, one dressed in pale grey.
- It was a man dressed in gray and in his arms he was carrying another man dressed in the same drab gray clothes.
- Luxurious satin corsets in gun-metal grey, deep mauve, and black mix with slim-fitting trousers and ground-sweeping skirts.
- A man wearing a smart but casual suit of light grey sat behind one of the largest desks that Jasmine had ever seen.
- 1.2 Grey hair.
he sighed at the amount of grey at his temple Example sentencesExamples - She noticed the laugh lines around his eyes and the streaks of gray in his hair.
- Kevin smiled at the older woman, who had hardly a sprinkle of gray in her hair.
- Something in the combination seems to work for him - at 55 he looks at least a decade younger, and there's no grey in his glossy black hair.
- He wasn't running to fat yet, which was a good thing, and there was no grey in his moustache, which was always a dead giveaway.
- The woman looked middle aged with dark black hair shot with stony gray.
- That was the first time I noticed the streaks of gray in his dark hair.
- There is quantity certainly, but quality too: clear skin, facial contours, thick dark hair with very little grey.
- In the center is Frank, wearing a black tuxedo and looking much younger - no beard then, and certainly no gray in his hair.
- But take off the wig and she is proud to acknowledge just a little grey in her dark hair.
- He laid a shaking hand on his son's forehead, then smoothed the black hair that was now streaked with gray at the temples.
- His tawny hair was touched with wisps of silver grey.
- His hair was black with some distinguished gray around his temple.
- He has brown hair with some grey that came down just below his ears.
- I've got lines on my face, grey in my hair, and after the exertion of yesterday my muscles ache like an old, old man.
2A grey thing or animal, in particular a grey or white horse. Example sentencesExamples - Inside a house at Farm Road, Hyde, the collection of young adults, blacks, whites and greys had been happily breeding unchecked.
- Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
- The four greys are both carriage and riding horses - Heloise, Marta, Tayten, and Nerid.
- Eager equestrians were paraded round the ring by charming chestnuts and graceful greys in the popular horse classes.
- The Makah were renowned whale hunters and stratigraphic unit V yielded the remains of at least 67 animals, mainly humpbacks and greys.
- The powerful grey will carry the colours of the Fair City Flyers, who are local to Miss Russell's Kinross base.
- Because greys are much less common in racing than horses of a darker hue, they have always been popular - and few have more fans than ‘Dessie’.
- Among the greys is a darker-coloured shark with brilliant white trailing edges to its fins - the first silvertip I have seen.
verb ɡreɪ 1no object (especially of hair) become grey with age. he had put on weight and greyed somewhat Example sentencesExamples - His black hair was slightly greying and his leathery face well worn and he seemed quite content to sit on the grass, letting the day pass him by.
- His dark hair was greying and his face was careworn and weary.
- His hair was starting to gray around the edges, and his eyes were sunken, hidden away behind bags and wrinkles that were now forming.
- Her blond hair, though slightly graying, still curled gorgeously past her shoulders.
- His hair had been graying when she met him, but now it was completely white.
- His hair was starting to grey, but he still looked as if he could give anyone a good beating.
- Her straight, dark hair is graying, but her dark eyes are just as sharp and intelligent as they ever were.
- He appears to be in a vigorous middle age, his black hair greying at the temples.
- Even his neat crop of raven hair was beginning to grey at the edges.
- He's greying, but in a distinguished manner, at the temples and behind the ears.
- He was an older man, hair graying at the temples and a handlebar moustache taking up most of his face.
- When hair starts greying prematurely, it can cause a great deal of anxiety and hopelessness.
- Beside him sat a jovial fellow in his late forties or early fifties, with dark greying hair which was cropped short on the sides.
- Her flame-red hair, beginning to gray with age, marked her as a foreigner.
- His once brown hair was slowly graying and he'd put on some weight.
- Dapper, charming, and handsome, with a full head of sandy hair that greyed attractively over the years, Felt resembled actor Lloyd Bridges.
- The hair might be greying, but the brow is unfurrowed.
- Her hair had greyed prematurely, her once youthful face lined with worry and fraught with grief.
- I may be two stone heavier and my hair may be greying, but I've been training for a while now, and was pretty confident I'd be up to speed.
- In his late fifties, his sandy-coloured hair is greying and a thick grey beard accentuates his rounded face.
- 1.1 (of a person) become older.
the workforce is greying rapidly Example sentencesExamples - It is apparent that our membership has been graying for many years and that fewer and fewer young people are choosing to join us.
- As I have grayed, however, I am much more wary of this approach.
- But the graying of their workforce may present problems in the near future.
- On the one hand the current secondary school workforce is greying.
- There's been a lot written recently of the greying of the Canadian population.
- Analysis of the academic pharmacy workforce has confirmed the graying of the professoriate.
- In short, the graying of entrepreneurs will change the way organizations large and small do business with smaller enterprises.
- Plan for it because the world is graying and Seniors are already using the Internet in droves.
- The greying of the teacher librarian obviously refers to one aspect of the issue: the fact that so many of our profession are ageing.
- The New York Times needs to loosen up if it hopes to be relevant not just to my graying generation but to younger people.
- The unprecedented greying of Canadian society has many calling for a seniors’ bill of rights that would enshrine in law the specific needs of this emerging group.
- But the revived interest in ergonomic theories to some extent must be the result of the graying of our work force.
Synonyms age, get old, grow old, mature
Phrasal Verbs Display a menu option in a light font to indicate that it is not available. temporarily unavailable items are listed in a lighter, ‘greyed-out’ font Example sentencesExamples - But better to simply not show them or grey them out so they can't even be selected.
- When it loads up you don't get a blue screen at all and all the options on the remote are greyed out so that you can't access them.
- I cannot access any of the background images in the desktop background options… they are all greyed out.
- When I open the Address Book and click on the File menu, the Import and Export options are grayed out.
- Unfortunately, this option is grayed out [ghosted] and I cannot change the setting.
Derivatives adjective ˈɡreɪɪʃ The roof above is concrete struts with glass tiled pavement slabs forming hundreds of mini-skylights that let in a certain amount of greyish London light… Example sentencesExamples - His skin is pale and greyish, and his hands painfully contorted by years of rheumatoid arthritis.
- Iron is a silvery white or grayish metal that is ductile and malleable.
- The birds have green/yellow legs and greyish heads.
- The sky took on a grayish hue and the temperature fell but after a few minutes conditions were back to normal.
adverb Morning light filtered grayly through the curtains and I dressed quietly not wishing to disturb the elderly person who had granted me such a night of quiet rest. Example sentencesExamples - After the excellence of the first half, it sounded grayly uninspired.
- There was something greyly uniform, even vaguely Soviet, about the British high street - a drab shabbiness that infected not just public buildings, but even shop fronts and street signs.
- Sin and evil weren't black - he'd argued the point with a priest - but were greyly anonymous.
- We climbed a narrow staircase that led to a dusty office lit grayly by one narrow window.
noun ˈɡreɪnəsˈɡreɪnəs Some people would tell the story of your earlier life as an escape from the austerity and puritanism and greyness and lack of colour of Britain at that time. Example sentencesExamples - A worthy winner of the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction, Levy's novel is set largely in the grim greyness of post-war London.
- A brightly coloured housing centre provides the only relief from the greyness.
- As a rule of thumb, use olive- or yellow-toned cover-up or foundation to conceal redness around the nose and chin, and pale orange tones to conceal greyness and under-eye circles.
- Despite the greyness, despite the rain, all is right with the world.
Origin Old English grǣg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grauw and German grau. An Old English word that since the Middle Ages has been used to describe the weather when the sky is overcast. The extension of this to mean ‘dismal or sad’ dates from the early 18th century. The following 1969 quotation from The Times appears to be one of the earliest instances of the word carrying connotations of ‘faceless or anonymous’: ‘The identity of these grey men of politics should be revealed.’ A grey area is an ill-defined situation which does not readily fit into an existing category. It is so called because it is ‘not black or white’, and cannot be simply analyzed or put into a single category. The expression was first used in the late 1940s in reference to countries that had Communist sympathies but were not completely pro- or anti-Communist. The name of the greyhound has nothing to do with the colour grey. It comes from Old English grighund, which meant ‘bitch hound’. In the late 19th century an ocean greyhound was a steamship specially built for great speed.
Rhymes affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea adjectiveɡreɪɡrā 1Of a color intermediate between black and white, as of ashes or an overcast sky. Synonyms greyish, silvery white, silver, hoary ashen, wan, pale, pasty, pallid, colourless, sallow, leaden, bloodless, anaemic, white, waxen, chalky - 1.1 (of the weather) cloudy and dull; without sun.
a cold, gray November day Synonyms cloudy, overcast, dull, dim, dark, sunless - 1.2 (of a person) having gray hair.
a gray, fatherly gentleman Synonyms grey-haired, hoary, grizzled - 1.3informal Relating to old people, especially when seen as an oppressed group.
the political power of the gray vote Synonyms grey-haired, hoary, grizzled - 1.4 (of a person's face) pale, as through tiredness, age, or illness.
a few people, their faces gray and bitter Synonyms pale, deathly pale, pallid, white, bloodless, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, chalky, chalk-white, grey, white-faced, whey-faced, waxen, waxy, corpse-like, deathlike, ghostly
2Dull and nondescript; without interest or character. Synonyms characterless, colourless, nondescript, unremarkable, faceless 3(of financial or trading activity) not accounted for in official statistics. Synonyms unofficial, informal, irregular, back-door
nounɡreɪɡrā 1Gray color or pigment. dirty intermediate tones of gray Example sentencesExamples - The film is dominated by the grays, whites, and browns of Newfoundland in the early spring.
- He will wear more earthy tones such as brown, and of course, black, white and gray.
- Their water pots are a sudden burst of colour against the dusty grey of the road.
- Suit colours for the summer include stone, muted grey, cream and oyster.
- The anemic palate that colours the film - grays, browns, and other hushed earth tones - provide the foreboding backdrop.
- Oriental blue and silver gray are the colors traditionally associated with Military Intelligence units.
- His hair was also a light gray that looked almost white, but it was very short, like it had just been shaved.
- His eyes were a very deep grey, almost blue, but they were still very familiar.
- Instead, opt for solid colors such as plain whites, blacks and grays; they're classics and can easily be matched with the rest of your wardrobe.
- Although the underlying colour scheme of grey and red remains the same, some old pieces have been dropped and new ones added.
- The sky is now a uniform shade of grey and it's raining fairly steadily.
- The snow seemed amazingly white against the cold grey of an Ontario winter sky.
- The sun was just beginning to set and the sky was a combination of blue, orange and gray.
- It's a startling shade of blue grey, but apart from that, it's very well styled.
- I know that grey isn't the best background colour to use on a webpage, but I'll put up with it.
- It was only two o'clock, yet the sky was a deep grey dotted with small white clouds.
- Today the restaurant is a discreetly elegant affair, all subtle greys and white.
- I'd go for a dark shade of gray because it blends well with just about everything.
- Although the set is colourful, the costumes themselves range from shades of grey to black and white.
- The sets are effective; economical and fairly traditional, with drained out colour, predominantly greys and blues.
- 1.1 Gray clothes or material.
Example sentencesExamples - A man wearing a smart but casual suit of light grey sat behind one of the largest desks that Jasmine had ever seen.
- For this show, Marc continues the dark, gloomy feel with black, navy and gray.
- There are two pairs of dancers on stage, one dressed in red, one dressed in pale grey.
- Diago wore gray beneath his white robes as well, though he hid it better.
- Ethan's train of thought was cut short by a man dressed in monochromatic gray.
- It was a man dressed in gray and in his arms he was carrying another man dressed in the same drab gray clothes.
- Luxurious satin corsets in gun-metal grey, deep mauve, and black mix with slim-fitting trousers and ground-sweeping skirts.
- The one in charge had gray hair and was wearing gray.
- My attire that evening, as my father had requested, was a gown of ivory silk overlaid in a surcoat of deep grey.
- A woman entered dressed in dark gray, the dress was similar to mine, but the shoulders were covered.
- They walked quickly over to a young man in charcoal grey, with hair the same color.
- 1.2 Gray hair.
he sighed at the amount of gray at his temple Example sentencesExamples - Something in the combination seems to work for him - at 55 he looks at least a decade younger, and there's no grey in his glossy black hair.
- That was the first time I noticed the streaks of gray in his dark hair.
- He has brown hair with some grey that came down just below his ears.
- His tawny hair was touched with wisps of silver grey.
- I've got lines on my face, grey in my hair, and after the exertion of yesterday my muscles ache like an old, old man.
- She noticed the laugh lines around his eyes and the streaks of gray in his hair.
- In the center is Frank, wearing a black tuxedo and looking much younger - no beard then, and certainly no gray in his hair.
- He wasn't running to fat yet, which was a good thing, and there was no grey in his moustache, which was always a dead giveaway.
- He laid a shaking hand on his son's forehead, then smoothed the black hair that was now streaked with gray at the temples.
- The woman looked middle aged with dark black hair shot with stony gray.
- His hair was black with some distinguished gray around his temple.
- There is quantity certainly, but quality too: clear skin, facial contours, thick dark hair with very little grey.
- But take off the wig and she is proud to acknowledge just a little grey in her dark hair.
- Kevin smiled at the older woman, who had hardly a sprinkle of gray in her hair.
- 1.3usually Gray The Confederate army in the Civil War, or a member of that army.
2A gray thing or animal, in particular a gray or white horse. Example sentencesExamples - The four greys are both carriage and riding horses - Heloise, Marta, Tayten, and Nerid.
- Eager equestrians were paraded round the ring by charming chestnuts and graceful greys in the popular horse classes.
- Inside a house at Farm Road, Hyde, the collection of young adults, blacks, whites and greys had been happily breeding unchecked.
- The Makah were renowned whale hunters and stratigraphic unit V yielded the remains of at least 67 animals, mainly humpbacks and greys.
- Among the greys is a darker-coloured shark with brilliant white trailing edges to its fins - the first silvertip I have seen.
- Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
- Because greys are much less common in racing than horses of a darker hue, they have always been popular - and few have more fans than ‘Dessie’.
- The powerful grey will carry the colours of the Fair City Flyers, who are local to Miss Russell's Kinross base.
verbɡreɪɡrā [no object]1(especially of hair) become gray with age. he had put on weight and grayed somewhat Example sentencesExamples - Her straight, dark hair is graying, but her dark eyes are just as sharp and intelligent as they ever were.
- Even his neat crop of raven hair was beginning to grey at the edges.
- The hair might be greying, but the brow is unfurrowed.
- His hair was starting to gray around the edges, and his eyes were sunken, hidden away behind bags and wrinkles that were now forming.
- Dapper, charming, and handsome, with a full head of sandy hair that greyed attractively over the years, Felt resembled actor Lloyd Bridges.
- Her flame-red hair, beginning to gray with age, marked her as a foreigner.
- Beside him sat a jovial fellow in his late forties or early fifties, with dark greying hair which was cropped short on the sides.
- His hair had been graying when she met him, but now it was completely white.
- He was an older man, hair graying at the temples and a handlebar moustache taking up most of his face.
- I may be two stone heavier and my hair may be greying, but I've been training for a while now, and was pretty confident I'd be up to speed.
- His once brown hair was slowly graying and he'd put on some weight.
- When hair starts greying prematurely, it can cause a great deal of anxiety and hopelessness.
- His hair was starting to grey, but he still looked as if he could give anyone a good beating.
- He appears to be in a vigorous middle age, his black hair greying at the temples.
- In his late fifties, his sandy-coloured hair is greying and a thick grey beard accentuates his rounded face.
- Her hair had greyed prematurely, her once youthful face lined with worry and fraught with grief.
- He's greying, but in a distinguished manner, at the temples and behind the ears.
- Her blond hair, though slightly graying, still curled gorgeously past her shoulders.
- His dark hair was greying and his face was careworn and weary.
- His black hair was slightly greying and his leathery face well worn and he seemed quite content to sit on the grass, letting the day pass him by.
- 1.1 (of a person) become older.
the workforce is graying rapidly Example sentencesExamples - Analysis of the academic pharmacy workforce has confirmed the graying of the professoriate.
- The greying of the teacher librarian obviously refers to one aspect of the issue: the fact that so many of our profession are ageing.
- On the one hand the current secondary school workforce is greying.
- Plan for it because the world is graying and Seniors are already using the Internet in droves.
- But the revived interest in ergonomic theories to some extent must be the result of the graying of our work force.
- As I have grayed, however, I am much more wary of this approach.
- The unprecedented greying of Canadian society has many calling for a seniors’ bill of rights that would enshrine in law the specific needs of this emerging group.
- There's been a lot written recently of the greying of the Canadian population.
- The New York Times needs to loosen up if it hopes to be relevant not just to my graying generation but to younger people.
- It is apparent that our membership has been graying for many years and that fewer and fewer young people are choosing to join us.
- In short, the graying of entrepreneurs will change the way organizations large and small do business with smaller enterprises.
- But the graying of their workforce may present problems in the near future.
Synonyms age, get old, grow old, mature
Phrasal Verbs Display a menu option in a light font to indicate that it is not available. temporarily unavailable items are listed in a lighter, ‘grayed-out’ font
Origin Old English grǣg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grauw and German grau. nounɡreɪɡrā Physics The SI unit of the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, corresponding to one joule per kilogram. Example sentencesExamples - When a doctor prescribes a treatment he will define it in terms of dose in Grays required at a point.
- Radiation doses are measured in rads or grays, where 1 gray equals 100 rads.
- To calculate the dose equivalent one of the workers would receive in sieverts, you would need to multiply the dose in grays, by the quality factor.
- Thus for these particular radiations the dose equivalent in sieverts is numerically equal to the absorbed dose in grays.
- The sievert is numerically equivalent to the gray for electrons and for X-rays irradiating the whole body.
Origin 1970s: named after Louis H. Gray (1905–65), English radiobiologist. |