Grey definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary GREY. [See Gray.] WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: of ... intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair" [syn: grey, gray, greyish, grayish] 2: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray- haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, ...
... intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair" [syn: grey, gray, greyish, grayish] 2: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey-haired, gray- haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] 3: ...
grey market definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ... than the official price set by a regulatory agency [syn: grey market, gray market] Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (grey markets) Note: in AM, use 'gray market' 1. Grey market goods are bought unofficially and then sold to customers at lower prices than usual. (BUSINESS) Grey-market perfumes and toiletries are now commonly sold by mail. N-SING: oft N n, the N 2. Grey market shares are sold to investors before they have ...
grey-headed definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
grey area definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ... that is not clearly one thing or the other [syn: grey area, gray area] Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (grey areas) Note: in AM, use 'gray area' If you refer to something as a grey area, you mean that it is unclear, for example because ... the moment, the law on compensation is very much a grey area. ...that gray area between blue-collar laborers and white ...
grey matter definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: greyish ... fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons [syn: grey matter, gray matter, grey substance, gray substance, substantia grisea] Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Note ... You can refer to your intelligence or your brains as grey matter. (INFORMAL) ...an unsolved mathematical equation which has caused his grey matter to work overtime.
grey-haired definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired]
American grey birch definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: medium ... sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree [syn: grey birch, gray birch, American grey birch, American gray birch, Betula populifolia]
iron-grey definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: of the grey color of iron [syn: iron-grey, iron-gray] n 1: the color of freshly broken cast iron [syn: iron-grey, iron-gray]