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Cyan vs Grey - What's the difference?

cyan | grey |

As nouns the difference between cyan and grey

is that cyan is a colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light while grey is alternative form of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between cyan and grey

is that cyan is of the colour cyan while grey is alternative form of lang=en.

As a verb grey is

alternative form of lang=en.

As a proper noun Grey is

{{surname|from=nicknames}}, an alternative spelling of Gray|nocap=1|lang=en.

cyan

English

(wikipedia cyan)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum; the complementary colour of red; the colour obtained by subtracting red from white light.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of the colour cyan.

    • Related terms

    * cyan- * cyano-

    See also

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    grey

    English

    Adjective

    (greyer)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey , the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey -suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
    Usage notes
    A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: gre'''y'' is the (British) '''E'''nglish spelling, while ''gr'''a'''y'' is the '''A merican spelling. However, ''grey is also frequently found in American English.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, battleship grey , grey area , greybeard , grey eminence , grey-haired , greyhound , greyness , grey ghost , grey matter}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
    • My hair is beginning to grey.

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • See also

    *

    Anagrams

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