gray
Because it is a word with a single syllable, gray is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofgray
- An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
- An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.
- An extraterrestrial humanoid with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
- A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.
- To become gray.
Example: "My hair is beginning to gray."
- To cause to become gray.
- To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)
Example: "the graying of America"
- To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.
- Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
- Dreary, gloomy.
- Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
- Relating to older people.
Example: "the gray dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly"
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