gray

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 grā

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An achromatic colour between black and white. US
  2. 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. US
  3. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon. US
  4. A gray wolf US
    — Caywood holds the rifle which time after time brought down a raging, snarling prairie gray.
  5. A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus. US
    — Log-shaped barnacles become embedded in the hide of the gray.
  6. Synonym of grey alien. US
  7. A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating. US
动词 v.
  1. To turn gray. US,ergative
    — My hair is beginning to gray.
  2. To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) US,slang
    — the graying of America
  3. To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate. US,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness. US
  2. Dreary, gloomy, cloudy. US,figuratively,sometimes
    — the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation
  3. Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability. US
  4. Gray-haired. US
    — I have already gone gray and lost my looks.
  5. Old. US
    — Two hours, whose mighty circle did embrace More time than might make grey the infant world, Rolled thus, a weary and tumultuous space: […]
  6. Relating to older people. US
    — the gray dollar
    the purchasing power of the elderly

词形变化

grayer comparative more gray comparative grayest superlative most gray superlative grey alternative grays present,singular,third-person graying participle,present grayed participle,past grayed past grey alternative grays plural grey alternative grays plural grey alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
all cats are gray at night all cats are gray in the dark ash gray ash-gray ash-gray leaf bug back gray battleship-gray battleship gray blackish-gray antshrike blue-gray cadet gray cool gray dove gray eastern gray kangaroo eastern gray squirrel get gray hair from give gray hair to give someone gray hair gray-A gray ace gray alien gray amber gray ammonia gray angelfish gray area gray asexual gray asexuality gray baby syndrome graybeard gray-blue grayboard graybody gray-box testing gray catbird gray ceiling gray cells gray-collar gray collar gray commissure gray cuscus gray divorce gray dogwood gray eminence grayen gray energy gray ephedra grayey gray fox gray friar gray ghost gray gold gray ground squirrel gray-haired gray hat grayhead gray-headed gray hen grayhound gray hydrogen gray iron grayish gray jay gray knight gray langur grayling gray literature grayly gray magic gray magick gray man graymap gray market gray marketeer gray matter gray mullet graymuzzle gray-necked bunting grayness gray night gray noise gray nomad grayordinate gray out gray pine gray platelet syndrome gray power gray rape gray reef shark gray rocking gray rock method grayromantic gray-scale gray scale grayscale grayschist gray seal graysexual gray-sexual graysexuality gray short-tailed opossum gray silver gray sole gray squirrel graystone gray syndrome gray tape gray teal gray town gray tree frog gray treefrog gray triggerfish grayware graywater gray water gray whale gray wolf gray zorro green-gray groutfit gunmetal gray gunmetal-gray insular gray fox iron gray island gray fox long gray line military gray millennial gray nongray Patagonian gray fox Payne's gray pearl gray periaqueductal gray silver-gray slate gray South American gray fox ungray western gray kangaroo shades of gray

词源

词源 1
From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ (West Saxon). The spelling gray reflects the West Saxon vowel development, whereas the variant grey stems from the Anglian form grēġ (through Middle English grey). Further derived from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz (“grey”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
Cognate with West Frisian grau (“grey”), Dutch grauw (“grey”), German Low German grau, graag (“grey”), German grau (“grey”), Swedish grå (“grey”), Icelandic grár (“grey”), Latin rāvus (“tawny, grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), archaic Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).
词源 2
Named after English physicist Louis Harold Gray (1905–1965).
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