Gray vs False - What's the difference?
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(label) Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
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(label) Dreary, gloomy.
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(label) Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
(label) Relating to older people.
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(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
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a proper noun gray
is ; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.gray
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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
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*References
Etymology 2
Named after (Louis Harold Gray).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}