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The correct spelling is gray.
How to pronounce gray
/ɡɹeɪ/
nounIPA: /ɡɹeɪ/
Say it like: Graee
The correct spelling is gray. An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white. For example: "My hair is beginning to gray."
Usage Examples
“My hair is beginning to gray.”
“the graying of America”
“the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly”
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- 5.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
verb
- 1.To become 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)
- 4.To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
adjective
- 1.Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
- 2.Dreary, gloomy.
- 3.Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
- 4.Relating to older people.
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