different between grep vs grex

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.

English

Etymology

Latin grex (“flock”).

Noun

grex (plural greges or grexes)

1. (biology) A multicellular aggregate of amoeba.
2. (horticulture) A kind of group used in horticultural nomenclature, applied to the progeny of an artificial cross from specified parents, in particular for orchids.

   Synonym: gx

Further reading

• Grex (horticulture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?ger- (“to assemble, gather together”). See also Spanish grey (“flock, crowd”) Lithuanian gurguole (“mass, crowd”) and gurgulys (“chaos, confusion”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (grusti, “handful”), Sanskrit ?? (ga?á, “flock, troop, group”) and ????? (gr??ma, “troop, collection, multitude; village, tribe”), and Ancient Greek ?????? (ageír?, “I gather, collect”), whence ????? (agorá). See Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?reks/, [?r?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?reks/, [?r?ks]

Noun

grex m (genitive gregis); third declension

1. (zoology) A group of smaller animals: a flock (of birds, sheep, etc.), a pack (of dogs, wolves, etc.), a swarm (of insects), etc.
2. (figuratively) A similar group of other things, particularly:
   1. A group of people: a crowd, a clique, a company, a band, a troop, etc.
   2. (sports) A team of charioteers.
   3. (theater) A troupe of actors.

Usage notes

Properly, a herd or drove of larger animals form a pecus n, a iumentum (when pulling carts), or a armenta (when pulling a plow), while smaller animals—especially domesticated pecud?s—form a grex. Its use for people is not necessarily pejorative in the way pecus is.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Hyponyms

• pecus

Derived terms

• greg?lis
• greg?rius
• greg?tim

Related terms

• greg?

Descendants

References

• grex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• grex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• grex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• "Pecus; Jumentum; Armentum; Grex" in H.H. Arnold's translation of Ludwig von Döderlein's Hand-Book of Latin Synonymes (1841), pp. 158–9.