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argent | gray |

As nouns the difference between argent and gray

is that argent is the metal silver while gray is an achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

As adjectives the difference between argent and gray

is that argent is of silver or silver-coloured while gray is having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.

As a verb gray is

to become gray.

As a proper noun Gray is

{{surname|from=nicknames}}; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.

argent

English

(wikipedia argent)

Alternative forms

* (heraldry)

Noun

(-)
  • The metal silver.
  • (tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  • * 1909 , Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
    • The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent ".
  • (obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
  • * Tennyson
    • The polished argent of her breast.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of silver or silver-coloured.
  • (tincture): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  • * 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry

    • Synonyms

    * blanc, silver

    Derived terms

    {{der3, argentic , argentiferous , argentine , argentite , argentum nitricum}}

    Related terms

    * Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

    See also

    *

    Quotations

    * 1667', Those '''argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost * 1733', Or ask of yonder '''argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? — Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man * 1817', she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her '''argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy — John Keats, ''Endymion * 1817', Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine '''argent luxuries! — John Keats, ''Endymion * 1818', Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair '''argent wings — John Keats, ''Hyperion * 1819', At length burst in the '''argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain — John Keats, ''The Eve of St Agnes * 1891',"A castle '''argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly. — Thomas Hardy, ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles * 1922', Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled '''argent , honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses * 1922', Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field '''argent displayed. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses * 1967', '''Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets

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    gray

    English

    Alternative forms

    * grey (used in the UK and the Commonwealth and also in the US)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ).

    Adjective

    (er) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)
  • (label) Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
  • * Isaac Newton
  • (label) Dreary, gloomy.
  • *
  • (label) Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
  • (label) Relating to older people.
  • * Ames
    • Usage notes
    A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: gre'''y'' is the '''E'''nglish spelling, while ''gr'''a'''y'' is the '''A merican spelling. However, ''grey is also found in American English.
    Derived terms
    {{der3, battleship gray , gray area , graybeard , gray-haired , grayhound , grayness , gray ghost , gray matter}}

    Verb

    (en-verb) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)
  • (label) To become gray.
  • (label) To cause to become gray.
  • To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

    • Noun

  • (en noun) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)
  • (label) An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
  • an extraterrestrial creature with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
  • 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

    • See also

    *

    References

    Etymology 2

    Named after (Louis Harold Gray).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • Derived terms
    * kilogray
    See also
    *

    Anagrams

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