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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  Gray
       
          A parser generator written in Forth by Martin Anton Ertl
          .  Gray takes grammars in an
          extended BNF and produces executable Forth code for
          recursive descent parsers.  There is no special support for
          error handling.  Version 3 runs under Tile Forth Release 2
          by Mikael Patel.
       
          (1992-05-22)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) : [ gazetteer ]


  Gray, GA (city, FIPS 34512)
    Location: 33.00739 N, 83.53575 W
    Population (1990): 2189 (799 housing units)
    Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 31032
  Gray, IA (city, FIPS 32565)
    Location: 41.84132 N, 94.98416 W
    Population (1990): 83 (45 housing units)
    Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 50110
  Gray, KY
    Zip code(s): 40734
  Gray, LA (CDP, FIPS 31180)
    Location: 29.67689 N, 90.78160 W
    Population (1990): 4260 (1496 housing units)
    Area: 30.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 70359
  Gray, ME
    Zip code(s): 04039
  Gray, TN (CDP, FIPS 30700)
    Location: 36.41117 N, 82.47974 W
    Population (1990): 1071 (444 housing units)
    Area: 7.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 37615

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.]
     [OE. gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw,
     OHG. gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
     [Written also grey.]
     1. any color of neutral hue between white and black; white
        mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of
        ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed
        color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
              mixing whites and blacks.             --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. -- Ames.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. gloomy; dismal.
        [PJC]
  
     Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
  
     Gray buck (Zo["o]l.), the chickara.
  
     Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
  
     Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
  
     Gray duck (Zo["o]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the
        female mallard.
  
     Gray falcon (Zo["o]l.) the peregrine falcon.
  
     Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
  
     Gray hen (Zo["o]l.), the female of the blackcock or black
        grouse. See Heath grouse.
  
     Gray mill or Gray millet (Bot.), a name of several plants
        of the genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
  
     Gray mullet (Zo["o]l.) any one of the numerous species of
        the genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in
        the Old World and America; as the European species
        ({Mugilid[ae] capito, and Mugilid[ae] auratus), the
        American striped mullet ({Mugilid[ae] albula), and the
        white or silver mullet ({Mugilid[ae] Braziliensis). See
        Mullet.
  
     Gray owl (Zo["o]l.), the European tawny or brown owl
        ({Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea})
        inhabits arctic America.
  
     Gray parrot (Zo["o]l.), an African parrot ({Psittacus
        erithacus), very commonly domesticated, and noted for its
        aptness in learning to talk. Also called jako.
  
     Gray pike. (Zo["o]l.) See Sauger.
  
     Gray snapper (Zo["o]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer.
        See Snapper.
  
     Gray snipe (Zo["o]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
  
     Gray whale (Zo["o]l.), a rather large and swift whale of
        the northern Pacific ({Eschrichtius robustus, formerly
        Rhachianectes glaucus), having short jaws and no dorsal
        fin. It grows to a length of 50 feet (someimes 60 feet).
        It was formerly taken in large numbers in the bays of
        California, and is now rare; -- called also grayback,
        devilfish, and hardhead. It lives up to 50 or 60 years
        and adults weigh from 20 to 40 tons.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), n.
     1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a
        neutral or whitish tint.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or
        a kind of salmon.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day.
              That coats thy life, my gallant gray. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (U. S. History) the Confederate army or a soldier in the
        confederate army; as, a battle between the blue and the
        gray.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Gray \Gray\ (gr[=a]), n. [named after Louis Harold Gray, English
     radiobiologist.]
     the SI unit of absorbed dosage of ionizing radiation, equal
     to an absorbed energy of 1 joule per kilogram of irradiated
     material; -- abbreviated Gy. This unit is 100 times the
     commonly used unit, the rad.
     [PJC]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Gray \Gray\, a. [Compar. Grayer; superl. Grayest.] [OE.
     gray, grey, AS. gr[=ae]g, gr[=e]g; akin to D. graauw, OHG.
     gr[=a]o, G. grau, Dan. graa, Sw. gr[*a], Icel. gr[=a]r.]
     [Written also grey.]
     1. White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt,
        or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark
        mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
  
              These gray and dun colors may be also produced by
              mixing whites and blacks.             --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
  
     2. Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
  
     3. Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
  
     Gray antimony (Min.), stibnite.
  
     Gray buck (Zo["o]l.), the chickara.
  
     Gray cobalt (Min.), smaltite.
  
     Gray copper (Min.), tetrahedrite.
  
     Gray duck (Zo["o]l.), the gadwall; also applied to the
        female mallard.
  
     Gray falcon (Zo["o]l.) the peregrine falcon.
  
     Gray Friar. See Franciscan, and Friar.
  
     Gray hen (Zo["o]l.), the female of the blackcock or black
        grouse. See Heath grouse.
  
     Gray mill or millet (Bot.), a name of several plants of the
        genus Lithospermum; gromwell.
  
     Gray mullet (Zo["o]l.) any one of the numerous species of
        the genus Mugil, or family Mugilid[ae], found both in
        the Old World and America; as the European species ({M.
        capito, and M. auratus), the American striped mullet
        ({M. albula), and the white or silver mullet ({M.
        Braziliensis). See Mullet.
  
     Gray owl (Zo["o]l.), the European tawny or brown owl
        ({Syrnium aluco). The great gray owl ({Ulula cinerea})
        inhabits arctic America.
  
     Gray+parrot+(Zo["o]l.),+a+parrot+({Psittacus+erithacus" rel="nofollow">Gray parrot (Zo["o]l.), a parrot ({Psittacus erithacus),
        very commonly domesticated, and noted for its aptness in
        learning to talk.
  
     Gray pike. (Zo["o]l.) See Sauger.
  
     Gray snapper (Zo["o]l.), a Florida fish; the sea lawyer.
        See Snapper.
  
     Gray snipe (Zo["o]l.), the dowitcher in winter plumage.
  
     Gray whale (Zo["o]l.), a rather large and swift California
        whale ({Rhachianectes glaucus), formerly taken in large
        numbers in the bays; -- called also grayback,
        devilfish, and hardhead.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Gray \Gray\, n.
     1. A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a
        neutral or whitish tint.
  
     2. An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or
        a kind of salmon.
  
              Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day. That coats
              thy life, my gallant gray.            --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  gray
       adj 1: an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of
              black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just
              turning gray" [syn: grey, grayish, greyish]
       2: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or
          white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;
          "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray-haired, grey-haired,
           gray-headed, grey-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary,
           white-haired]
       3: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray
          rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and
          thick" [syn: dull, grey, leaden]
       4: used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who
          wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure" [syn: grey]
       5: intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between
          clearly legal and strictly illegal" [syn: grey]
       n 1: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
            [syn: grayness, grey, greyness]
       2: gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray" [syn: grey]
       3: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray;
          "the Confederate army was a vast gray" [syn: grey]
       4: horse of a light grey or whitish color
       5: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country
          church-yard (1716-1771) [syn: Thomas Gray]
       6: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and
          who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) [syn: Robert
          Gray]
       7: United States botanist who specialized in North American
          flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories
          of evolution (1810-1888) [syn: Asa Gray]
       v 1: make gray; "The painter decided to grey the sky" [syn: grey]
       2: turn gray; "Her hair began to gray" [syn: grey]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     Αγγλικά a.
     (ΗΠΑ) (βλ: grey)
     Αγγλικά n.
     (ΗΠΑ) (βλ: grey)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     Czech n.
     (l en gray) (gloss: unit of absorbed radiation)
     Finnish n.
     #English (gloss: SI unit)
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt physics) (l en gray) (gloss: SI unit of absorbed radiation)
     Portuguese alt.
     (lb pt ufology) (l en gray) (gloss: one of a race of evil, short
  extraterrestrial beings)
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt ufology) (l en gray) (gloss: one of a race of evil, short
  extraterrestrial beings)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Gray
     n.
     1 (surname en from=nicknames); originally a nickname for someone with
  a gray beard or hair.
     2 (given name en male).
     3 (place en number of places c/USA):
     4 # (place en city/county seat co/Jones County s/Georgia).
     5 # (place en minor city co/Audubon County s/Iowa).
     6 # (place en unincorporated community co/Knox County s/Kentucky).
     7 # (place en CDP co/Terrebonne Parish s/Louisiana).
     8 # (place en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Cumberland County s/Maine).
     9 # (place en CDP co/Washington County s/Tennessee).
     10 (place en rural locality in north-east s/Tasmania c/Australia).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     a.
     1 Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an
  ember.
     2 dreary, gloomy.
     n.
     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 A gray whale, ''(l mul Eschrichtius robustus)''.
     4 (lb en chiefly US ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with
  grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
     5 (lb en US two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for
  cheating.<ref>Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language'', second
  edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243</ref>
     vb.
     1 To become gray.
     2 To cause to become gray.
     3 (lb en demography slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to
  graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a
  geographic region)
     4 (lb en transitive photography) To give a soft effect to (a
  photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass
  plate.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  Gray
     n.
     1 (surname en from=nicknames); originally a nickname for someone with
  a gray beard or hair.
     2 (given name en male).
     3 (place en number of places c/USA):
     4 # (place en city/county seat co/Jones County s/Georgia).
     5 # (place en minor city co/Audubon County s/Iowa).
     6 # (place en unincorporated community co/Knox County s/Kentucky).
     7 # (place en CDP co/Terrebonne Parish s/Louisiana).
     8 # (place en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Cumberland County s/Maine).
     9 # (place en CDP co/Washington County s/Tennessee).
     10 (place en rural locality in north-east s/Tasmania c/Australia).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     Czech n.
     (l en gray) (gloss: unit of absorbed radiation)
     Finnish n.
     #English (gloss: SI unit)
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt physics) (l en gray) (gloss: SI unit of absorbed radiation)
     Portuguese alt.
     (lb pt ufology) (l en gray) (gloss: one of a race of evil, short
  extraterrestrial beings)
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt ufology) (l en gray) (gloss: one of a race of evil, short
  extraterrestrial beings)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  Gray
     n.
     1 (surname en from=nicknames); originally a nickname for someone with
  a gray beard or hair.
     2 (given name en male).
     3 (place en number of places c/USA):
     4 # (place en city/county seat co/Jones County s/Georgia).
     5 # (place en minor city co/Audubon County s/Iowa).
     6 # (place en unincorporated community co/Knox County s/Kentucky).
     7 # (place en CDP co/Terrebonne Parish s/Louisiana).
     8 # (place en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Cumberland County s/Maine).
     9 # (place en CDP co/Washington County s/Tennessee).
     10 (place en rural locality in north-east s/Tasmania c/Australia).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     Czech n.
     (l en gray) (gloss: unit of absorbed radiation)
     Finnish n.
     #English (gloss: SI unit)
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt physics) (l en gray) (gloss: SI unit of absorbed radiation)
     Portuguese alt.
     (lb pt ufology) (l en gray) (gloss: one of a race of evil, short
  extraterrestrial beings)
     Portuguese n.
     (lb pt ufology) (l en gray) (gloss: one of a race of evil, short
  extraterrestrial beings)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  Gray
     n.
     1 (surname en from=nicknames); originally a nickname for someone with
  a gray beard or hair.
     2 (given name en male).
     3 (place en number of places c/USA):
     4 # (place en city/county seat co/Jones County s/Georgia).
     5 # (place en minor city co/Audubon County s/Iowa).
     6 # (place en unincorporated community co/Knox County s/Kentucky).
     7 # (place en CDP co/Terrebonne Parish s/Louisiana).
     8 # (place en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Cumberland County s/Maine).
     9 # (place en CDP co/Washington County s/Tennessee).
     10 (place en rural locality in north-east s/Tasmania c/Australia).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     n.
     (yhteys k=fi kemia fysiikka) SI-järjestelmän mukainen absorboitunut
  annos yksikkö (tunnus Gy)

From Finnish Wiktionary: Finnish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-fi-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     n.
     (yhteys k=fi kemia fysiikka) SI-järjestelmän mukainen absorboitunut
  annos yksikkö (tunnus Gy)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     Engelska a.
     (tagg amerikansk engelska färger språk=en) grå; som har grå färg
     Franska n.
     (tagg kat=fysik språk=fr) #Svenska
     Nynorska n.
     (tagg kat=fysik språk=nn) #Svenska

From Swedish Wiktionary: Swedish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-sv-2023-07-27 ]


  gray
     n.
     (tagg: kat=fysik) SI-enheten för absorberad dos, det vill säga hur
  mycket joniserande strålning som absorberats

From Deutsch-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2020.10.04 : [ freedict:deu-bul ]


  Gray /ɡʁeɪ̯/ 
  грей
  Physik: Maßeinheit der Dosis an Energie, die durch ionisierte Strahlung verursacht wird

From Deutsch-français FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:deu-fra ]


  Gray /ɡʁeɪ̯/ 
  gray
  Physik: Maßeinheit der Dosis an Energie, die durch ionisierte Strahlung verursacht wird

From Deutsch-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:deu-ind ]


  Gray /ɡʁeɪ̯/ 
  gray
  Physik: Maßeinheit der Dosis an Energie, die durch ionisierte Strahlung verursacht wird

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Gray /ɡɹˈeɪ/
  1. رمادي
  2. أشيب
  3. كئيب
  4. يجعله رمادياً

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  gray //ɡɹeɪ// 
  сив
  having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  gray //ɡɹeɪ// 
  сив
  colour

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  gray //ɡɹeɪ// 
  посивявам
  to become gray