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gray



gray
gris


Définitions

anglais > français
gray
     1. adj. Gris.
           Beware the Gray Ghost.
           Prenez garde au Fantôme gris.
     2. n. Gris.
     3. n. (Métrologie) Gray (unité de mesure de dose absorbée).
     4. v. Grisonner.
           His hair was greying.
           Ses cheveux grisonnaient.
     5. v. Griser.
           I grayed out this section of text.
           J'ai grisé cette section de texte.
     6. v. Devenir âgé avec les cheveux gris.
anglais > anglais
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. n. (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)
     9. n. (US) An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
           (color panel, grey, 808080)
     10. n. An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
     11. n. (chiefly US, ufology) an extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
     12. n. (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. n. 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
français > anglais
gris
     1. adj. grey, gray
     2. adj. (colloquial) drunk, tipsy
     3. n-m. gray

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Exemples de phrases

They lived in a very small house at the end of a long, gray street. 
    Ils vivaient dans une toute petite maison au bout d'une longue rue grise.
At first they drove through streets of small, gray houses. 
    Ils roulèrent d'abord dans des rues bordées de petites maisons grises.
He's always somewhat tired and anxious, his eyes only shine a dim blue-gray light. 
    Il est toujours plus ou moins fatigué et anxieux, ses yeux ne reflètent qu'un faible éclat bleu-gris.
Her gray hair makes her look older than her age. 
    Ses cheveux gris la rendent plus vieille qu'elle ne l'est vraiment.
My office is on the fourth floor of that gray six-story building. 
    Mon bureau est au troisième étage de cet immeuble gris de cinq étages.



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