The noun gray has 7 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (6) gray, grayness, grey, greyness -- (a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black)
2. (3) grey, gray -- (clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey")
3. (1) grey, gray -- (any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey; "the Confederate army was a vast grey")
4. (1) grey, gray -- (horse of a light gray or whitish color)
5. Gray, Thomas Gray -- (English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771))
6. Gray, Robert Gray -- (American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806))
7. Gray, Asa Gray -- (United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888))
Overview of verb gray
The verb gray has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. grey, gray -- (make grey; "The painter decided to grey the sky")
2. grey, gray -- (turn grey; "Her hair began to grey")
Overview of adj gray
The adj gray has 5 senses (first 4 from tagged texts)
1. (39) grey, gray, greyish, grayish -- (of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair")
2. (6) grey, gray, grey-haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired -- (showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head")
3. (4) dull, grey, gray, leaden -- (darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a grey rainy afternoon"; "grey clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick")
4. (3) grey, gray -- (used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms); "a stalwart grey figure")
5. grey, gray -- (intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal")