Gray

(noun.) a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black.

(noun.) United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888).

(noun.) American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806).

(noun.) English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771).

(noun.) English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965).

(noun.) the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad.

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• I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He was riding a big gray gelding and he wore a khaki beret, a blanket cape like a poncho, and heavy black boots. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Some distance off, across a paddock, lay a long gray-tiled out-building. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• M. Le Gray, of Paris, was the first to suggest collodion for this purpose, but Mr. Scott Archer, of London, in 1851, was the first to carry it out practically. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Means for quarter sawing in both directions of log travel are shown in patent to Gray, No. 550,825, December 3, 1895. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The plaster of the broken houses was gray and wet. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• She was very gray and weak and tired. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• A brougham was coming down it, and there could be no mistaking those gray horses. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• A pearl-white moon smiles through the gray trees; does he care for her smile? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A brougham and pair of grays, under the glare of a gas-lamp, stood before the doctor's door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It was twenty minutes, and the reds had all faded into grays before Holmes and the trainer reappeared. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• These colors were bright, and were generally yellows, blues, and grays, although sometimes he used greens, violets, and browns. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• For example, with alum and oxalic acid as a mordant and logwood as a dye, blue is obtained; but with a mordant of ferric sulphate and a dye of logwood, blacks and grays result. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.

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