See grayscale on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for grayscale meaning in All languages combined (5.3kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gray",
"3": "scale"
},
"expansion": "gray + scale",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gray + scale",
"forms": [
{
"form": "grayscales",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "grayscale (countable and uncountable, plural grayscales)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Photography",
"orig": "en:Photography",
"parents": [
"Art",
"Human activity",
"Media",
"Culture",
"Human behaviour",
"Communication",
"Society",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "21 49 10 20",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 53 18 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times."
],
"id": "en-grayscale-en-noun-XHtn7rVq",
"links": [
[
"photography",
"photography"
],
[
"exposure",
"exposure"
],
[
"development",
"development"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(photography) A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"photography"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Joe Habraken, Microsoft Office 2010 in Depth",
"text": "You can view your presentation in grayscale or black-and-white and then customize how the various colors are translated to grayscale or black-and-white.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray."
],
"id": "en-grayscale-en-noun-6Zq93H2J",
"links": [
[
"black and white",
"black and white"
]
],
"qualifier": "imaging",
"raw_glosses": [
"(imaging) The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "greyscale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gray-scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "grey-scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gray scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "grey scale"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"grayscale"
],
"word": "grayscale"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"english": "easily divided into two groups",
"word": "black and white"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gray",
"3": "scale"
},
"expansion": "gray + scale",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gray + scale",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "grayscale (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine",
"text": "Tetris’s graphics were simple enough to work on the Game Boy’s small gray-scale screen; its motion was slow enough not to blur; its action was a repetitive, storyless puzzle that could be picked up, with no loss of potency, at any moment, in any situation.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Black and white, representing color with shades of gray."
],
"id": "en-grayscale-en-adj-yxSWFImJ",
"links": [
[
"Black and white",
"black and white"
]
],
"qualifier": "imaging",
"raw_glosses": [
"(imaging) Black and white, representing color with shades of gray."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "in shades of gray",
"word": "black and white"
},
{
"word": "monochrome"
}
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "giving colour in shades of gray",
"word": "灰度"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "giving colour in shades of gray",
"word": "kiwikiwitea"
}
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "greyscale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gray-scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "grey-scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gray scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "grey scale"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"grayscale"
],
"word": "grayscale"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gray",
"3": "scale"
},
"expansion": "gray + scale",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gray + scale",
"forms": [
{
"form": "grayscales",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "grayscaling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "grayscaled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "grayscaled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "grayscale (third-person singular simple present grayscales, present participle grayscaling, simple past and past participle grayscaled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To convert to grayscale."
],
"id": "en-grayscale-en-verb-dx71envh",
"links": [
[
"convert",
"convert"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To convert to grayscale."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "grisaille"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "greyscale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gray-scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "grey-scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "gray scale"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "grey scale"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"grayscale"
],
"word": "grayscale"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjective-noun compound nouns",
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gray",
"3": "scale"
},
"expansion": "gray + scale",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gray + scale",
"forms": [
{
"form": "grayscales",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "grayscale (countable and uncountable, plural grayscales)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Photography"
],
"glosses": [
"A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times."
],
"links": [
[
"photography",
"photography"
],
[
"exposure",
"exposure"
],
[
"development",
"development"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(photography) A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"photography"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Joe Habraken, Microsoft Office 2010 in Depth",
"text": "You can view your presentation in grayscale or black-and-white and then customize how the various colors are translated to grayscale or black-and-white.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray."
],
"links": [
[
"black and white",
"black and white"
]
],
"qualifier": "imaging",
"raw_glosses": [
"(imaging) The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray."
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "greyscale"
},
{
"word": "gray-scale"
},
{
"word": "grey-scale"
},
{
"word": "gray scale"
},
{
"word": "grey scale"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"grayscale"
],
"word": "grayscale"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"english": "easily divided into two groups",
"word": "black and white"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjective-noun compound nouns",
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gray",
"3": "scale"
},
"expansion": "gray + scale",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gray + scale",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "grayscale (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine",
"text": "Tetris’s graphics were simple enough to work on the Game Boy’s small gray-scale screen; its motion was slow enough not to blur; its action was a repetitive, storyless puzzle that could be picked up, with no loss of potency, at any moment, in any situation.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Black and white, representing color with shades of gray."
],
"links": [
[
"Black and white",
"black and white"
]
],
"qualifier": "imaging",
"raw_glosses": [
"(imaging) Black and white, representing color with shades of gray."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"english": "in shades of gray",
"word": "black and white"
},
{
"word": "monochrome"
},
{
"word": "greyscale"
},
{
"word": "gray-scale"
},
{
"word": "grey-scale"
},
{
"word": "gray scale"
},
{
"word": "grey scale"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "giving colour in shades of gray",
"word": "灰度"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "giving colour in shades of gray",
"word": "kiwikiwitea"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"grayscale"
],
"word": "grayscale"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjective-noun compound nouns",
"English adjectives",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gray",
"3": "scale"
},
"expansion": "gray + scale",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "gray + scale",
"forms": [
{
"form": "grayscales",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "grayscaling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "grayscaled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "grayscaled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "grayscale (third-person singular simple present grayscales, present participle grayscaling, simple past and past participle grayscaled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "grisaille"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To convert to grayscale."
],
"links": [
[
"convert",
"convert"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To convert to grayscale."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "greyscale"
},
{
"word": "gray-scale"
},
{
"word": "grey-scale"
},
{
"word": "gray scale"
},
{
"word": "grey scale"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"grayscale"
],
"word": "grayscale"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.