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English

Noun

gre (plural gres)

1. Obsolete form of gree.

Anagrams

• -erg-, EGR, ERG, GER, Ger, Ger., Ger??, Reg, erg, ger, reg

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French gré (“step”), from Latin gradus. The senses related to success are potentially from Scottish Gaelic gré.

Alternative forms

• gree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre (plural gres)

1. A step, gree or rung; a part of a staircase or ladder.
2. A stage or level as part of a scale; a level of a discontinuous scale.
3. A degree or extent; a level of a continuous scale.
4. Social or professional standing or status; one's position in society or a subset of it.
5. A degree or generation of ancestry; a stage in one's family history.
6. Success, winning or achievement in battle or sport.
7. (geometry) An angular measurement amounting to 1/360 of a circle.
8. (rare) A degree (educational qualification handed out by tertiary institutions)

Related terms

• degre

Descendants

• English: gree (obsolete)
• Scots: gree

References

• “gr??, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 2

From Old French gré (“goodwill”), from Latin gr?tum, a noun from Latin gr?tus.

Alternative forms

• gree

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre (uncountable)

1. A favourable or good attitude; goodwill, kindness.
   • 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.

2. Satisfaction, compensation, understanding.

Related terms

• agre
• greable
• green

Descendants

• English: gree (archaic)
• Scots: gree (obsolete)

References

• “gr??, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-15.

Etymology 3

Verb

gre

1. Alternative form of green

North Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gr?saz. Compare Mooring gra, Heligolandic grai, Föhr and Wiedingharde grä.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?r?/

Adjective

gre

1. (Sylt) grey

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English grey.

Adjective

gre

1. grey

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gregis (compare Old Irish graig (“horses”)); cognate with Latin grex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?/

Noun

gre f (plural greoedd)

1. stud (of horses), flock, herd

   Synonyms: haid, gyr, praidd, diadell

Mutation

English

Etymology

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Proper noun

grep

1. A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.

Verb

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)

1. (computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

2. By extension, to search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

Derived terms

• greppable

Translations

Further reading

• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003) , “grep”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7

Anagrams

• preg

Albanian

Alternative forms

• grap, gërepë, gërjepë

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), from *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), ultimately from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) (cf. English grapple, Old French grape, grappe, crape (“hook”), Norwegian grep (“grasp”)). Alternatively a contraction of variant gërepë, from archaic and dialectal gërjepë, from Proto-Albanian *ga-repa, from *repa (“to peel, tear off”) (modern rrjep). More at rrjep.

Noun

grep m

1. hook, fishhook

Derived terms

• grremç, gërrefshë, gërraç

Related terms

• gërreç
• zgrip

References

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English grep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????e?p?p???]

Noun

grep(????) • (gureppu) 

Verb

grep(????)?? • (gureppu suru) suru (stem grep(????)? (gureppu shi), past grep(????)?? (gureppu shita))

1. to grep

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the verb gripe

Noun

grep n (definite singular grepet, indefinite plural grep, definite plural grepa or grepene)

1. a grasp, grip.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• greip

Verb

grep

1. simple past of gripe.

References

• “grep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb gripe

Noun

grep n (definite singular grepet, indefinite plural grep, definite plural grepa)

1. a grasp, grip.

References

• “grep” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Clipping of grepfrut.

Noun

grep n (plural grepuri)

1. grapefruit

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse greip, from Proto-Germanic *graip?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?p/

Noun

grep c

1. garden fork, graip – a tool, resembling a pitchfork but where both handle and prongs are shorter and sturdier, and which is used more for digging than lifting

Declension

Verb

grep

1. past tense of gripa.