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Definitions: GRE |
GRENoun1. See Gree, good will. 2. See Gree, a step. |
Date "GRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
"GRE" is a common misspelling or typo for: gee, germ, gore, greed, green, greet, grew, ogre. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | GRE Generic Routing Encapsulation. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GRE | English | Glucocorticoid response element | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Necessity | Adverb: necessarily; adVerb: of necessity, of course; ex necessitate rei; needs must; perforce; nolens volens; will he nil he, willy nilly, bon gre mal gre, willing or unwilling, coute que coute. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GRE |
| Specialty definitions using "GRE": Bon gre mal gre ♦ Generic Routing Encapsulation, green Moon, green Sun. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GRE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (flock, stud). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Babica gre na jug (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "GRE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.07% of the time. "GRE" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.07% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Unclassified Items | 15.52% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.07% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 10.34% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GRE": bon gre mal gre. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GRE": Gre-no-li. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gre | 3,571 | gre test preparation | 25 |
gre test | 311 | gre test prep | 22 |
gre exam | 221 | gre sample question | 22 |
gre score | 92 | kaplan gre | 21 |
gre online | 79 | gre testing center | 20 |
gre practice test | 75 | gre class | 18 |
gre testing | 72 | gre test book | 17 |
gre org | 64 | gre and gmat | 16 |
au gre michigan | 60 | free gre practice test | 15 |
gre preparation | 58 | gre test center | 15 |
gre test date | 58 | gre book | 15 |
gre vocabulary | 57 | gre practice exam | 15 |
gre prep | 52 | free gre test | 15 |
gre practice | 49 | gre words | 15 |
gre sample test | 48 | gre examination | 14 |
average gre score | 35 | free gre | 14 |
gre registration | 31 | good gre score | 14 |
gre prep course | 29 | gre study | 14 |
gre study guide | 29 | sample gre | 14 |
gre word list | 25 | gre math | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GRE": grease, greaseball, greaseballs, greased, greaseless, greasepaint, greasepaints, greaseproof, greaseproofs, greaser, greasers, greases, greasewood, greasewoods, greasier, greasiest, greasily, greasiness, greasinesses, greasing, greasy, great, greatcoat, greatcoats, greaten, greatened, greatening, greatens, greater, greatest, greathearted, greatheartedly, greatheartedness, greatheartednesses, greatly, greatness, greatnesses, greats, greave, greaved, greaves, grebe, grebes, grecianize, grecianized, grecianizes, grecianizing, grecize, grecized, grecizes, grecizing. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "GRE": eagre, emigre, maigre, malgre, maugre, meagre, ogre. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GRE": aggregate, aggregated, aggregately, aggregateness, aggregatenesses, aggregates, aggregating, aggregation, aggregational, aggregations, aggregative, aggregatively, aggress, aggressed, aggresses, aggressing, aggression, aggressions, aggressive, aggressively, aggressiveness, aggressivenesses, aggressivities, aggressivity, aggressor, aggressors, agree, agreeabilities, agreeability, agreeable, agreeableness, agreeablenesses, agreeably, agreed, agreeing, agreement, agreements, agrees, agrestal, agrestic, aigret, aigrets, aigrette, aigrettes, allegretto, allegrettos, antiaggression, antidesegregation, antiprogressive, antisegregation, congregant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: erg, reg. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-r" | |
-1 letter: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-r" | |
+1 letter: ager, berg, dreg, eger, ergo, ergs, gear, germ, goer, gore, gree, grew, grey, grue, gyre, ogre, rage, regs, urge. | |
+2 letters: agers, agger, agree, anger, argle, argue, auger, barge, bergs, cager, dirge, dregs, eager, eagre, edger, egers, eggar, egger, egret, ergot, erugo, forge, gager, gamer, gaper, gayer, gazer, gears, genre, genro, gerah, germs, germy, giber, giver, glare, gluer, goers, gofer, goner, gored, gores, gorge, gorse, grace, grade, grape, grate, grave, graze, great, grebe, greed, greek, green, grees, greet, grego, greys, gride, grief, grime, gripe, grope, grove, gruel, grues, grume, gurge, gyred, gyres, huger, jager, lager, large, leger, liger, luger, marge, merge, ogler, ogres, pager, parge, purge, raged, ragee, rages, range, regal, reges, regma, regna, reign, renig, repeg, rerig, retag, ridge, roger, rogue, rouge, rugae, sager, sarge, serge, surge, targe, terga, tiger, urged, urger, urges, verge, wager, yager. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)415239 |
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