Gray vs Fracas - What's the difference?
gray | fracas |
(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
A noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.
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* 1964 , , Vintage Books 2002, paperback edition, p. 37,
As nouns the difference between gray and fracas
is that gray is an achromatic colour intermediate between black and white while fracas is a noisy disorderly quarrel, fight, brawl, disturbance or scrap.As an adjective 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.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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Etymology 2
Named after (Louis Harold Gray).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
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* * English eponyms ----fracas
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Noun
(en-noun)- And I recall also some years ago, Mr Rayne, who travelled to America as valet to Sir Reginals Mauvis, remarking that a taxi driver in New York regularly addressed his fare in a manner which if repeated in London would end in some sort of fracas , if not in the fellow being frogmarched to the nearest police station.
- The Oregon-Northern California region had lost much of its population during the fracas of 1980; it had been heavily hit by Red Chinese guided missiles, and of course the clouds of fallout had blanketed it in the subsequent decade.