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# grey

«grey» in Mova's school dictionary: **a colour between black and white, like the colour of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#m1)

2) Grey hair is the white or silver hair of older people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#m2)

3) A grey day is dull and cloudy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#m3)

4) A grey area is something not clearly right or wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x1)
- The grey box weighs 5 kg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x2)
- How many grey stones are there? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x3)
- She paints 2 grey walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x4)
- The sky was grey and it started to rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x5)
- Mix black and white paint to make grey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x6)
- Grandpa's hair has gone grey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x7)
- A grey squirrel ran up the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x8)
- Little grey ones, little grey ones! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/40-being-a-good-grown-up/13/)
- [Mixing many paint colours together makes brown or grey, because each paint soaks up different parts of the light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/13-colours-mixing-the-colour-wheel-warm-and-cool/6/)
- [A grey parrot called Alex learned to name colours, shapes and numbers in experiments with Irene Pepperberg.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/13/)
- [A great grey owl can plunge through deep snow to grab a vole it has only heard.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/9/)
- [Not every shark is a big grey hunter like the one in Jaws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «grey» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grey/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.