Grey area

Definition

grey (also esp US gray ) / greÇ / adj ၁။ (က) ျပာႏွမ္းႏွမ္း (သို႔) ခဲေရာင္။ မီးခိုးေရာင္။ grey eyes/ hair ❍ grey suit. (ခ) (ဆံပင္) ျဖဴ [ေသာ]။ She's gone very grey. (ဂ) မိုးေမွာင္ က်ေသာ။ a grey day/ sky ❍ The weather was grey and cold. (ဃ) ျဖဴဖပ္ျဖဴေရာ္ ျဖစ္ေသာ။ a face grey with pain ❍ The next morning she looked grey and holloweyed. ၂။ (က) ၿငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္ ေကာင္းေသာ။ a grey existence ❍ Life seemed grey and pointless after she'd gone. (ခ) ( derog ) ထံုထိုင္းေသာ။ ႀကံရည္ဖန္ရည္ မရိွေသာ။ လုပ္ရည္ကိုင္ရည္ မရိွေသာ။ a government department run by grey and faceless men. (also esp US gray ) n ၁။ [U,C] မီးခိုးေရာင္။ a suit of dark/ light/ charcoal grey. ၂။ [U] မီးခိုးေရာင္အဝတ္အစားမ်ား။ dressed in grey. ၃။ ေဖာင္းဝတ္။ ေဖာင္း (ျမင္း)။ v ျဖဴသည္။ His hair had greyed entirely. ❍ greying curls ❍ He was 50 and greying. ❍ Worry had greyed her hair. ❏ grey area n ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား မရိွေသာ အပိုင္းအျခား။ We're in a bit of a grey area. ❍ The new rules for police procedure cleared up a lot of grey areas. ❏ grey-haired adj ဆံပင္ျဖဴေသာ။ ေခါင္းျဖဴစြယ္က်ဳိး။ ❏ greyish (also esp US grayish ) adj ျဖဴေရာင္သန္းေသာ။ ❏ grey market n [sing] ( commerce ) အစု ရွယ္ယာမ်ားကို တရားဝင္ထုတ္မေပးမီ ေရာင္းခ်ျခင္း။ trade on the grey market. ❏ grey matter n [U] ( infml ) ဦးေႏွာက္။ ဉာဏ္။ He doesn't have much grey matter, I'm afraid.

Examples

1. He wore a dark grey suit.
2. The water was a greyish-green.
3. She seems to have gone grey very quickly.
4. [grey with] : His face was grey with pain.
5. In London it was a grey November day.
6. The rain stopped and the grey skies began to clear.
7. The drab grey tedium of his life
8. A grey area in environmental law
9. The grey vote