Gray vs Bray - What's the difference?
gray | bray |
(label) Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
* Isaac Newton
(label) Dreary, gloomy.
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(label) Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
(label) Relating to older people.
* Ames
(label) To become gray.
(label) To cause to become gray.
To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
(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
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
Of a donkey, to make its cry.
Of a camel, to make its cry.
To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
* Milton
* Sir Walter Scott
* Gray
The cry of an ass or donkey.
The cry of a camel
Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
* Jerrold
To crush or pound, especially with a mortar.
* Bible, Proverbs xxvii. 22
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 141:
(British, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.
* 2011 , , Butchers Perfume'' from ''The Beautiful Indifference , Faber and Faber (2011), page
As verbs the difference between gray and bray
is that gray is to become gray while bray is of a donkey, to make its cry.As nouns the difference between gray and bray
is that gray is an achromatic colour intermediate between black and white while bray is the cry of an ass or donkey.As proper nouns the difference between gray and bray
is that gray is {{surname|from=nicknames}}; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair while Bray is {{surname|lang=en}.As an adjective gray
is having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.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)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)Noun
See also
*References
Etymology 2
Named after (Louis Harold Gray).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* kilograySee also
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* * English eponyms ----bray
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) braire, from ).Verb
(en verb)- Whenever I walked by, that donkey brayed at me.
- He threw back his head and brayed with laughter.
- Arms on armour clashing, brayed / Horrible discord.
- And varying notes the war pipes brayed .
- Heard ye the din of battle bray ?
Noun
(en noun)- The bray and roar of multitudinous London.
Synonyms
* hee-hawEtymology 2
From (etyl) breier (Modern French broyer).Verb
(en verb)- Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- Their heads and shoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle [...].
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- If anything he brayed him all the harder - the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.