grey

adj 1: an achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of

black and white; "gray flannel suit"; "hair just

turning gray" [syn: {gray}, {grayish}, {greyish}]

2: showing characteristics of age, especially having gray or

white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge;

"nodded his hoary head" [syn: {gray}, {gray-haired}, {grey-haired},

{gray-headed}, {grey-headed}, {hoar}, {hoary}, {white-haired}]

3: used to signify the Confederate forces in the Civil War (who

wore gray uniforms); "a stalwart gray figure" [syn: {gray}]

4: intermediate in character or position; "a gray area between

clearly legal and strictly illegal" [syn: {gray}]

5: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray

rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and

thick" [syn: {dull}, {gray}, {leaden}]

n 1: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are gray;

"the Confederate army was a vast gray" [syn: {gray}]

2: a neutral achromatic color midway between while and black

[syn: {gray}, {grayness}, {greyness}]

3: gray clothing; "he was dressed in gray" [syn: {gray}]

v 1: make gray [syn: {gray}]

2: turn gray; "Her hair began to gray" [syn: {gray}]

grep

A {Unix} command for

searching files for lines matching a given {regular

expression} (RE). Named after the {qed}/{ed} editor

subcommand "g/re/p", where re stands for a regular expression,

to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the

lines containing matches to it. There are two other variants,

fgrep which searches only for fixed strings and {egrep} which

accepts extended REs but is usually the fastest of the three.

Used by extension to mean "to look for something by pattern".

When browsing through a large set of files, one may speak of

"grepping around". "Grep the bulletin board for the system

backup schedule, would you?" See also {vgrep}.

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