gama de grises

Phonetic: "/ɡɹeɪ/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Having a color.

Example: Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.

Definition: Having a particular color or kind of color.

Example: The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.

Definition: Having prominent colors; colorful.

Example: The singer wore a colored shirt.

Definition: Influenced pervasively but subtly.

Example: My opinions are colored by my upbringing.

Definition: Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.

Definition: Of neither black nor white skin color.

Example: Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.

Definition: Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

Example: a colored drinking fountain

Phonetic: "/ɡɹeɪ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.

Definition: An animal or thing of grey colour, such as a horse, badger, or salmon.

Definition: An extraterrestrial humanoid with greyish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.

Phonetic: "/ɡɹeɪ/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To become grey.

Example: My hair is beginning to grey.

Definition: To cause to become grey.

Definition: To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

Example: the greying of Europe

Definition: To give a soft effect to (a photograph) by covering the negative while printing with a ground-glass plate.

Phonetic: "/ɡɹeɪ/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.

Definition: Dreary, gloomy.

Definition: Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.

Definition: Relating to older people.

Example: the grey dollar, i.e. the purchasing power of the elderly

Phonetic: "/skeɪl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

Definition: An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.

Example: Please rate your experience on a scale from 1 to 10.

Definition: Size; scope.

Example: The Holocaust was insanity on an enormous scale.

Definition: The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.

Example: This map uses a scale of 1:10.

Definition: A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.

Definition: A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.

Definition: A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.

Example: the decimal scale; the binary scale

Definition: Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.

Definition: A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.

Example: Sally wasn't the star of the show, so she was glad to be paid scale.

Phonetic: "/skeɪl/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.

Example: We should scale that up by a factor of 10.

Definition: To climb to the top of.

Example: Hilary and Norgay were the first known to have scaled Everest.

Definition: To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.

Example: That architecture won't scale to real-world environments.

Definition: To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.