Wordcyclopedia | English | pale gray shrew

pale Adjective

— If someone or something is pale, then their color is very light.

pale Verb

— If something pales in comparison to something else, then its importance becomes lower.

pale Noun

— A pale is a wooden stake.

gray

— adjective (= grey, greyish, grayish) of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black the little grey cells gray flannel suit a man with greyish hair — noun a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black — adjective (= grey, hoar, hoary) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair whose beard with age is hoar — Coleridge nodded his hoary head — adjective (= grey) used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms) a stalwart grey figure — noun (= grey) clothing that is a grey color he was dressed in grey — noun (= grey) horse of a light gray or whitish color — noun (= grey) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey the Confederate army was a vast grey — noun the SI unit of energy absorbed from ionizing radiation; equal to the absorption of one joule of radiation energy by one kilogram of matter; one gray equals 100 rad — verb (= grey) turn grey Her hair began to grey — verb (= grey) make grey The painter decided to grey the sky — adjective (= grey) intermediate in character or position a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

Gray

— noun American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806) — noun English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771) — noun United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin's theories of evolution (1810-1888) — noun English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)

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shrew

— noun a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman — noun small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles

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