What's the difference between gray and white?

Gray


Definition:

  • (superl.) White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray eye of a dove.
  • (superl.) Gray-haired; gray-headed; of a gray color; hoary.
  • (superl.) Old; mature; as, gray experience. Ames.
  • (n.) A gray color; any mixture of white and black; also, a neutral or whitish tint.
  • (n.) An animal or thing of gray color, as a horse, a badger, or a kind of salmon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The anatomic and functional development of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) was studied in the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica.
  • (2) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
  • (3) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
  • (4) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
  • (5) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (6) Proenkephalin A-related immunoreactive neuronal perikarya were detected in the central gray, reticular formation, nucleus raphes, trapezoid body, nucleus parabrachialis lateralis and medialis, nucleus spinalis nervi trigemini, nucleus dorsalis nervi vagi, and in the nucleus tractus solitarii.
  • (7) Ratios of lobar to global gray matter metabolism also were calculated.
  • (8) To summarize this case, one should consider the possibility that excessive polytherapy induces seizures, particularly in patients with structural brain abnormalities such as heterotopic gray matter.
  • (9) But Vokes’s second-half penalty and Gray’s 61st-minute strike won it for Burnley and left Fulham two points away from the relegation zone.
  • (10) Low numbers of [125I]endothelin-1 [( 125I]ET-1) binding sites were detected in the gray matter of the human frontal cortex, with little binding in the white matter.
  • (11) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
  • (12) Total RNA extracted from both white and gray matter of brain tissue from multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and controls was analyzed using a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction for the presence of the nucleic acid of human coronavirus (HCV) 229E and OC43, the two strains characterized to date and associated with respiratory infections.
  • (13) Bouton-like terminals were found to be of two types according to their vesicle content, namely, boutons with ovoid, clear synaptic vesicles forming Gray type-1 synapses and boutons with pleomorphic clear synaptic vesicles forming Gray type-2 synapses.
  • (14) These findings support the view that the periaqueductal gray matter is actively involved in endogenous mechanisms of analgesia.
  • (15) I want to make it very clear that the state’s attorney’s office did not release the Freddie Gray autopsy report,” she said.
  • (16) ruber, anterodorsolateral midbrain tegmentum, superior and inferior colliculi, pontine gray, cerebral peduncles, medial pontine reticular formation, raphe and vestibular nuclei did not affect the acoustic structure of the calls tested.
  • (17) Single axon collaterals arising from the descending axons gave off terminal fibers to the left or the right gray matter.
  • (18) Colloidal gold labeled with monoclonal antibody recognized human hemoglobin was agglutinated with hemoglobin and changed the color from red to gray.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A child praying at the vigil site for Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
  • (20) Phoenix will next be seen in James Gray's Lowlife, a historical drama about immigrants in 1900s New York.

White


Definition:

  • (superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
  • (superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  • (superl.) Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  • (superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  • (superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  • (superl.) Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  • (n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.
  • (n.) Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
  • (n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
  • (n.) A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.
  • (n.) A white pigment; as, Venice white.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
  • (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
  • (2) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
  • (3) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
  • (5) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (6) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
  • (7) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (8) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (9) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
  • (10) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
  • (11) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (12) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
  • (13) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
  • (14) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
  • (15) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (16) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (17) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (18) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
  • (19) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
  • (20) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.