gray

A1 CET-4 大学 FREQ #3350

n. 灰色, 暗淡 a. 灰色的, 灰白的, 面色苍白的, 年老的, 老练的, 阴沉的 v. (使)变灰色

发音

US /ɡɹeɪ/
UK /ɡɹeɪ/
US /ɡɹeɪ/
CA /ɡɹeɪ/

词形变化

grays 复数 grayed graying grays 三单 grays graying 现在分词 grayed 过去式 grayed 过去分词 grayer 比较级 grayer grayest more gray 比较级 grayest 最高级 most gray 最高级

别名

grey GRY

教材释义与例句

动词

使成灰色或灰白

动词

成为灰色或灰白

形容词

灰色的；苍白的；灰白头发的；阴郁的

释义与例句

n. A1
  1. 1.

    An achromatic colour between black and white.

    美国
  2. 2.

    An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

    美国
  3. 3.

    A gray wolf

    美国
  4. 4.

    A gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus.

    美国
  5. 5.

    Synonym of grey alien.

    美国 宗教 神话 哲学
  6. 6.

    A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.

    美国
  7. 1.

    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.

    美国
v.
  1. 1.

    To turn gray.

    美国

    My hair is beginning to gray.

  2. 2.

    To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)

    美国 俚语

    the graying of America

  3. 3.

    To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

    美国 及物 艺术
adj. A1
  1. 1.

    Of a color between black and white, having neutral hue and intermediate brightness.

    灰色

    美国
  2. 2.

    Dreary, gloomy, cloudy.

    美国 比喻

    1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries It's a pretty grey outlook for England if these are a sample of the mothers of the coming generation.

  3. 3.

    Of indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality or acceptability.

    美国
  4. 4.

    Gray-haired.

    美国

    I have already gone gray and lost my looks.

  5. 5.

    Old.

    美国
  6. 6.

    Relating to older people.

    美国

    the gray dollar

    February 8, 1800, Fisher Ames, Eulogy on Washington Gray experience listened to his counsels with respect, and, at a time when youth is almost privileged to be rash, Virginia committed the safety of her frontier, and ultimately the safety of America, not merely to his valor,—for that would be scarcely praise,—but to his prudence.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

grey grayness greyness GY

上位词 10

wear organization mount clothing organisation wearable habiliment radiobiologist riding horse saddle horse

下位词 9

silver charcoal ash gray ash grey iron blue iron gray iron grey silver-gray silver-grey
动词

同义词 1

grey

上位词 10

color colour color in colorise colorize colour in colourise colourize discolor discolour
形容词

同义词 10

grey grizzly white-haired gray-haired gray-headed grayish grey-haired grey-headed greyish hoar

近义相关 5

old southern neutral intermediate achromatic

相关短语

gray tape gray collar gray hat gray matter [医] 灰质 gray area 灰色地区 Gray code [计] 葛莱码 gray langur gray jay [网络] 灰色的jay gray wolf 灰狼 灰狼（歌名, Gray Wolf） gray areas gray seal gray seals gray water 灰水 中水 gray jays

词源

From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, grǣw (“grey”), 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”).

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