gray

/ɡreɪ/

意味: 灰色

例文: Philo turned gray during winter.
　　  フィロは冬になると灰色になった。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: gray hair(白髪), gray area(曖昧な領域), gray sky(曇り空)

定義: 灰色は、白と黒の間の色です。曇りの日や、年を取った人の髪の色を表すことがあります。また、はっきりしない状況や、明確な答えがない場合にも使われます。

grayは約40,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
Noun: clothing that is a grey color
Noun: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey
Noun: horse of a light gray or whitish color
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
Noun: English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray (the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation) was named (1905-1965)
Noun: English poet best known for his elegy written in a country churchyard (1716-1771)
Noun: American navigator who twice circumnavigated the globe and who discovered the Columbia River (1755-1806)
Noun: United States botanist who specialized in North American flora and who was an early supporter of Darwin’s theories of evolution (1810-1888)
Verb: make grey
Verb: turn grey
Adjective: of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
Adjective: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; -Coleridge
Adjective: used to signify the Confederate forces in the American Civil War (who wore grey uniforms)
Adjective: intermediate in character or position

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The sky turned gray before the storm arrived.(嵐が来る前に空が灰色になった。)
She wore a gray sweater to the meeting.(彼女は会議に灰色のセーターを着ていた。)
The cat has soft gray fur and green eyes.(その猫は柔らかい灰色の毛と緑の目をしている。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he was dressed in grey
Noun: the Confederate army was a vast grey
Verb: The painter decided to grey the sky
Verb: Her hair began to grey
Adjective: the little grey cells
Adjective: gray flannel suit
Adjective: a man with greyish hair
Adjective: whose beard with age is hoar
Adjective: nodded his hoary head
Adjective: a stalwart grey figure
Adjective: a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): Asa Gray, Gray, Gy, Louis Harold Gray, Robert Gray, Thomas Gray, gray, gray-haired, gray-headed, grayish, grayness, grey, grey-haired, grey-headed, greyish, greyness, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): achromatic color, clothing, color, discolor, organization, radioactivity unit, radiobiologist, saddle horse

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accessory, adhocracy, affiliate, alliance, american saddle horse, appaloosa, apparel, arabian, array, association, attire, aurify, azure, beachwear, black, blacken, blackwash, blue, blush, buckskin, bureaucracy, change, civilian clothing, company, cow pony, crowbait, curie, defense, deputation, drag, dun, dye, embrown, enterprise, establishment, federation, fiefdom, fire brigade, footwear, force, garment, girl scouts, gray, green, grey, hack, handcolor, handwear, headdress, hierarchy, host, imbue, incarnadine, institution, knitwear, leisure wear, line of defense, line organization, lippizan, loungewear, machine, man’s clothing, millicurie, morgan, motley, mottle, musical organization, neckpiece, nightwear, nongovernmental organization, outerwear, pale, palfrey, party, peace corps, pigment, pinkify, polity, polychrome, pool, prancer, professional organization, protective garment, purple, quango, quarter horse, rad, ready-to-wear, redden, rem, remount, retouch, roentgen, rutherford, silver, slip-on, slops, street clothes, sunburn, tailor-made, tammany hall, tan, tennessee walker, tint, togs, tone, turn, uniform, union, unit, verdigris, vestiture, warhorse, white, whiten, woman’s clothing, work-clothing, yellow

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): ash grey, charcoal, confederate army, dapple-grey, iron blue, iron-grey, tattletale grey

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: gray, grayness, grey, greyness, grizzle, hoariness

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: science

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): y

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: disgust, sadness