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greek

/ɡɹiːk/

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noun

An inhabitant, resident, or person of descent from Greece.

Examples :

"My neighbor, Mr. Papadopoulos, is a Greek who moved to America twenty years ago. "

nation person culture

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noun

Examples :

""The professor started talking about quantum physics, and it was all Greek to me." "

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noun

A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are characterised by being named after Greek letters. (See also Greek system.)

Examples :

"Was Joe a Greek in college?"

culture group organization education society

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noun

A cunning rogue; a merry fellow.

Examples :

""My little brother, a real greek, managed to convince Mom he cleaned his room while he was secretly playing video games." "

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Greek cuisine; traditional Greek food.

Examples :

"We ordered Greek for dinner tonight: souvlaki, spanakopita, and baklava. "

food culture tradition

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noun

(chiefly in the plural) One of the Greeks, measures of derivative price sensitivity.

Examples :

"The options trader carefully analyzed the greeks of the option contract to understand how its price would change with fluctuations in the underlying asset and time. "

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verb

To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.

Examples :

"The website greeked the addresses in the contact list preview to load the page faster. "

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verb

To fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form can be focused on instead of content.

Examples :

"The designer decided to greek the website mockup with Lorem Ipsum text so the client could focus on the layout and color scheme, not get distracted by the content itself. "

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