1. имя существительное 1) грек, гречанка 2) греческий язык (относится к индоевропейской семье языков) Например: Ancient Greek — древнегреческий язык 3) невнятная речь, тарабарщина Синоним(ы): gibberish 4) [устаревшее] проныра, карточный шулер, мухлёвщик Например: to be Greek to somebody — быть совершенно не понятным для кого-либо 2. прилагательное греческий
I. noun Etymology: Middle English Greke, from Old English Grēca, from Latin Graecus, from Greek Graikos 1. a. a native or inhabitant of ancient or modern Greece b. a person of Greek descent 2. a. the language used by the Greeks from prehistoric times to the present constituting a branch of Indo-European — see Indo-European languages table b. ancient Greek as used from the time of the earliest records to the end of the second century A.D. — see Indo-European languages table c. often not capitalized [translation of Latin Graecum (in the medieval phrase Graecum est; non potest legi Italian is Greek; it cannot be read)] something unintelligible Example: it's Greek to me 3. a member of a Greek-letter fraternity or sorority II. adjective 1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Greece, the Greeks, or Greek Example: Greek architecture 2. a. Eastern Orthodox b. of or relating to an Eastern church using the Byzantine rite in Greek c. of or relating to the established Orthodox church of Greece 3. of or relating to fraternities or sororities Example: the Greek system
1. 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.