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gray



gray
grau


Definitionen

Englisch > Deutsch
gray
     1. Adjektiv:
     2. [1] (US-amerikanisch) zwischen schwarz und weiß, von ähnlicher Farbe wie Wolken bei Regen
Englisch > Englisch
gray
     1. adj. (US) Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
     2. adj. (US) Dreary, gloomy.
     3. adj. (US) Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
     4. adj. (US) Relating to older people.
           the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly
     5. v. (US) To become gray.
           My hair is beginning to gray.
     6. v. (US) To cause to become gray.
     7. v. (US, demography slang) 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
     8. subst. (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)
     9. subst. (US) An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
           (color panel, grey, 808080)
     10. subst. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
     11. subst. (chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
     12. subst. (US, two-up) A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243
     13. subst. 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. Symbol: Gy
Deutsch > Englisch
grau
     1. adj. grey, gray

Aussprache

pronunciation

Beispielsätze

They lived in a very small house at the end of a long, gray street. 
    Sie wohnten in einem sehr kleinen Haus am Ende einer langen, grauen Straße.
My office is on the fourth floor of that gray six-story building. 
    Mein Büro befindet sich im dritten Obergeschoss des grauen, sechsgeschossigen Gebäudes dort.
The man must be over sixty, for his hair is gray. 
    Der Mann muss über 60 sein, denn sein Haar ist schon grau.



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