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What (who) is greek - definition
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GREEK; Greek (disambiguation); Ἑλληνική; GreeK
Greek
·noun A swindler; a knave; a cheat.
II. Greek ·adj Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
III. Greek ·noun Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me.
IV. Greek ·noun A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
greek
1. <text, graphics> To display text as abstract dots and lines
in order to give a preview of layout without actually being
legible. This is faster than drawing the characters correctly
which may require scaling or other transformations. Greeking
is particularly useful when displaying a reduced image of a
document where the text would be too small to be legible on
the display anyway.
A related technique is lorem ipsum.
(2006-09-18)
Greek
¦ noun
1. a native or national of Greece, or a person of Greek descent.
a Greek-speaking native of one of the ancient city states of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.
2. the ancient or modern Indo-European language of Greece.
3. US a member of a fraternity or sorority having a Greek-letter name.
¦ adjective relating to Greece, its people, or their language.
Phrases
it's (all) Greek to me informal I can't understand it at all.
Derivatives
Greekness noun
Origin
OE Grecas 'the Greeks', from L. Graeci, from Gk Graikoi, which according to Aristotle was the prehistoric name of the Hellenes.
Examples of use of greek
1. Fener Greek Patriarch Bartolomeos, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Teodoros Kasimis, Greek Ambassador George Yennimatas, Greek Consul General in Istanbul Alexis Alexandris and other people from the Turkish and Greek business and art communities attended the opening ceremony.
2. Greek spaceman Greek–Russian astronaut Theodoros Yurtsihin told the Athens News Agency yesterday that he is willing to help train a Greek person to go into space.
3. Greek newspapers have named one British and eight Greek secret service officers allegedly involved.
4. It could also write Greek characters – ancient Greek was a love from his college days.
5. Greek authorities said a search was under way for the pilot of the Greek plane.