grey
part of speech
adjective (grey, greyer, greyest; US spelling gray); noun (grey); verb (grey — go grey)
meaning for a pupil
1) Grey is a colour between black and white, like the colour of clouds before rain, ash or an elephant. tree →
2) Grey hair is the white or silver hair of older people. tree →
3) A grey day is dull and cloudy. tree →
4) A grey area is something not clearly right or wrong. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a colour used to sort things; others = total − grey. In art: mixing black and white makes grey. In everyday life: grey skies, grey school uniform, a grey squirrel, Grandpa's grey hair. Phrases: «grey hair», «go grey», «grey sky», «grey area».
examples
- There are 4 grey cats and 3 white cats. tree →
- The grey box weighs 5 kg. tree →
- How many grey stones are there? tree →
- She paints 2 grey walls. tree →
- The sky was grey and it started to rain. tree →
- Mix black and white paint to make grey. tree →
- Grandpa's hair has gone grey. tree →
- A grey squirrel ran up the tree. tree →
- Little grey ones, little grey ones! tree →
note
«Grey» (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland), «gray» (USA) — the same word. Maths: a colour that sorts groups; no clue to the operation.
In the corpora
- Everyone gets older: grey hair, glasses and stiffer knees come, but so do experience and wisdom.
- Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light.
- A grey parrot called Alex learned to name colours, shapes and numbers in experiments with Irene Pepperberg.
- A great grey owl can plunge through deep snow to grab a vole it has only heard.
- Not every shark is a big grey hunter like the one in Jaws.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «grey» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.