Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word GREY
GREY
Definitions of GREY
- an English earldom.
- (South African English, slang) Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).
- A nicknames surname from nicknames, alternative spelling of Gray.
- A placename
- (UK, military, historical, mostly, in the plural) A member of the Royal Scots Greys, a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1707 to 1971.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using GREY in a Sentence
- Lamo was a grey hat hacker who viewed the rise of the World Wide Web with a mixture of excitement and alarm.
- In the fictional history of Middle-earth, the original Certhas was created by the Sindar (or Grey Elves) for their language, Sindarin.
- Distinctive features of elephants include a long proboscis called a trunk, tusks, large ear flaps, pillar-like legs, and tough but sensitive grey skin.
- After Henry's death in 1547, Elizabeth's younger half-brother Edward VI ruled until his own death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to a Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, the Catholic Mary and the younger Elizabeth, in spite of statutes to the contrary.
- She was also a sometime mistress of other noblemen, including Edward's stepson, Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings but ended her life in bourgeois respectability.
- In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo, and western grey kangaroo.
- Other differences include a shorter bill, larger eyes, a larger, rounder head and darker grey wings in the red-legged kittiwake.
- Flathead grey mullet, or striped mullet, Mugil cephalus, a food fish species in the family Mugilidae.
- Graphite pencils (traditionally known as "lead pencils") produce grey or black marks that are easily erased, but otherwise resistant to moisture, most solvents, ultraviolet radiation and natural aging.
- It has various physical appearances, including a brick-red powder, a vitreous black solid, and a grey metallic-looking form.
- Like uncemented sand, sandstone may be imparted any color by impurities within the minerals, but the most common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white, and black.
- The wolf (Canis lupus; : wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a canine native to Eurasia and North America.
- Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), George Gill (lead guitar) and Robert Grey (aka Robert Gotobed; drums).
- Grey matter, or brain matter in American English, is a major component of the central nervous system, consisting of neuronal cell bodies, neuropil (dendrites and unmyelinated axons), glial cells (astrocytes and oligodendrocytes), synapses, and capillaries.
- It is consumed as food by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (butterfly and moth) species, including the grey pug.
- January 14 – Leonard Grey, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland, successfully negotiates a truce in the semi-independent County Laois, formerly an Irish Kingdom, over the areas leadership.
- On the death of Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1205, the election of a successor encountered difficulties: some of the younger canons of the cathedral chapter elected Reginald, the subprior of Christ Church, Canterbury, as Archbishop while another faction under pressure from King John chose John de Grey, Bishop of Norwich.
- In this, Gardner traces the history of the system back to similar systems of Pierre Hérigone and Richard Grey with uses by Lewis Carroll and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
- Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey or black, green, white, or brown in colour, and has a glassy or waxy appearance.
- Historical centre of the town, built in grey granite blocks (mainly 18th century); particularly Corso Matteotti, via Roma (Carrera Longa, Lu Runzatu, Lu Pultali), Piazza d'Italia (Piazza di l'Ara), Parco delle Rimembranze, Fonte Nuova (Funtana Noa) and Parco di San Lorenzo, via Mannu (ex via dei Nobili or dei Cavalieri).
- Blood Music deals with themes including biotechnology, nanotechnology (including the grey goo hypothesis), the nature of reality, consciousness, and artificial intelligence.
- Created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum, the Phoenix Force is famous for its central role in The Dark Phoenix Saga storyline, and is intrinsically linked to Jean Grey.
- Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout.
- Following the regular season, six teams compete in the league's three-week playoffs, which culminate in the Grey Cup championship game in late November.
- In severe cases, a grey or white patch develops in the throat, which can block the airway, and create a barking cough similar to what is observed in croup.
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