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How to pronounce gray
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What does gray mean?
adjOf a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.
Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.
“the era of gray, boring banality and stagnation”
Indistinct, disputed or ambiguous, especially in respect of moral acceptability, legality, etc.
“a gray area; a morally gray politician”
verbTo turn gray.
“My hair is beginning to gray.”
To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
“the graying of America”
To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
nounAn achromatic colour between black and white.
A gray dye or pigment.
A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of gray pigment.
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