gray
a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,008 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,173 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black also: grayness, grey, greyness
- clothing that is a grey color also: grey he was dressed in grey
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey also: grey the Confederate army was a vast grey
- horse of a light gray or whitish color also: grey
- 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 also: Gy
- English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965) also: Louis Harold Gray
gray in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I've seen you over there rocking a magnificent gray cat.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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I turned half-way round and saw Dorian Gray for the first time.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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You're old and gray And weary with the miles you've walked today.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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The thirty-five-year graduates, eighty strong, the men who are handling the nation, wear a unanimous sudden growth of rolling gray beard.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The inundation had swept away trees, crops, and cattle, and left in their stead a waste of red sand and gray mud.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1