Definitions For Gray

noun

  • Horse of a light gray or whitish color
  • Clothing that is a grey color
  • A neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
  • Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
  • United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888)
  • American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
  • English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
  • English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
  • 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

verb

  • Turn grey
  • Make grey
  • To become gray
  • To become older

adjective

  • Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
  • Intermediate in character or position
  • Used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
  • Showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair

Is Gray a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
8

The word Gray is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Gray in a Sentence

  • What will you do when you are old and gray?
  • My friends have all gone gray.
  • It was a gray winter day.

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