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As verbs the difference between greek and gree

is that greek is (computing) to display a placeholder instead of text, especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read while gree is .

As an adjective greek

is .

As a noun greek

is nonsense writing or talk; gibberish.

greek

English

Alternative forms

* (abbreviation):

Noun

  • (countable) An inhabitant, resident, or a person of descent from Greece.
  • (US, countable) A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are commonly characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system)
    • "Was Joe a Greek in college?"
  • (uncountable) Unintelligible speech or text, such as foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the listener is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon; or statements that the listener does not understand or agree with.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1821 , author=Mary Jane Mackenzie , title=Geraldine, or Modes of faith and practice , page=8 citation , isbn= , passage="I don't hear one word in ten that they say," continued Mrs. Abingdon; "it's Greek to me. However, ..."}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1859 , author=Kinahan Cornwallis , title=Two journeys to Japan, 1856-7, Volume 2 , page=246 citation , isbn= , passage="It's all Greek to me," said my companion at the outset, but as the warrior continued, his fears arose within him; it might be sentence of death — what did he know what it might not be?}}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year=1951 , date=December , author= , coauthors= , title=Which Kind of Life Insurance Policy? , magazine=Changing Times - The Kiplinger Magazine , volume=5 , issue=12 , page=28 citation , passage=...preferred risk...family maintenance...20-pay life. That's a bare sampling of the merchandise you're asked to pick and choose from. If it sounds like Greek' to you, don't worry. It sounds like ' Greek to most people. }}
  • (uncountable, slang) Anal sex.
  • * 2001 , "(unknown)", ASP: "Julie" of Oral-Land-Oh'' (on newsgroup ''alt.sex.prostitution )
    • She is absolutely a total GFE, no limits, except no Greek . (Well...I say “no Greek” - - if she is really hot for you, and if she is really turned on in a long session, she might beg for a finger in her anus while you suck her clit, but she is just too tiny and tight for any “real meat” in the backdoor.)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language of the Greek people, spoken in Greece and in Greek communities.
  • The writing system used in Greek language.

    • Usage notes

    In writings about the modern world, Greek is used primarily for the modern language currently spoken in Greece, and Ancient Greek will be used for older forms of the language. In the classics and other pre-modern studies, Greek will be used for the old forms of the language, and if the modern language is mentioned, it will be called Modern Greek.

    Derived terms

    * Ancient Greek * Byzantine Greek * Cappadocian Greek * Indo-Greek * Mediaeval Greek * Modern Greek * Mycenaean Greek * Proto-Greek

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of or relating to Greece, the Greek people, or the Greek language.
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • (lb) Of or pertaining to a fraternity or sorority.
  • Unintelligible, especially regarding foreign speech or text, or regarding subjects the speaker is not familiar with, such as mathematics or technical jargon.

    • Synonyms

    * Graeco- * Grecian * Hellenic * Helleno-

    Derived terms

    * Ancient Greek * Classical Greek * Demotic Greek * Greek alphabet * Greek chorus * Greek fire * Greek house * Greekish * Greek numbers * Greek Orthodox * Greek salad * Greek system * it's all Greek to me * Koine Greek * Modern Greek * Protogreek

    Related terms

    * (El Greco) * Grecian * Greco- * Greco-Roman

    See also

    * (wikipedia) (Other headwords of interest) * Dhimotiki * Hellenic * Hellenism * Hellenistic * Hellenize * Katharevousa * Koine * (el) * Language list

    Statistics

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    External links

    * Greek–English Dictionary]: from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster’s Dictionary — the Rosetta Edition. * * *

    gree

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Compare (degree), (grade).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) One of a flight of steps.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) , Chapter 5:
    • "My grand-daughter doesn't like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees , for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock."
  • (label) A stage in a process; a degree of rank or station.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
    • He is a shepherd great in gree .
  • Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
  • *
  • *:And thenne the kynge lete blowe to lodgynge / and by cause sir Palomydes beganne fyrste / and neuer he went nor rode oute of the feld to repose / but euer was doynge merueyllously wel outher on foote or on horsbak / and lengest durynge Kynge Arthur and alle the kynges gaf sir Palomydes the honour and the gree as for that daye
  • A degree.

    • Etymology 2

    From (pre-reform) (etyl) , from Old (etyl) (gray).

    Noun

  • Pre-eminence; victory or superiority in combat (hence also, the prize for winning a combat).
  • * 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
    • bycause Sir Palomydes beganne fyrste, and never he wente nor rode oute of the fylde to repose hym, but ever he was doynge on horsebak othir on foote, and lengest durynge, Kynge Arthure and all the kynges gaff Sir Palomydes the honoure and the gre as for that day.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Pleasure, goodwill, satisfaction.
  • * Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Man of Law's Tale :
    • And notified is þur?out þe toun / Þat every wi?t, wiþ greet devocioun, / Sholde preyen Crist þat he þis mariage / Recyve in gree and spede þis viage.
  • * Fairfax
    • Accept in gree , my lord, the words I spoke.
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night . vol. 1:
    • When it was the Second Night, said Dunyazad to her sister Shahrazad, "O my sister, finish for us that story of the Merchant and the Jinni;" and she answered "With joy and goodly gree , if the King permit me."

    Etymology 3

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To agree.
    • (Fuller)