(a.) Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
(n.) A swindler; a knave; a cheat.
(n.) Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(2) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(3) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(4) Greek police have said the 45-year old man arrested over the attack has admitted being a member of the extremist Golden Dawn Party.
(5) Thus, the dental health and dietary habits of the Greek immigrant and the Swedish children were generally very similar, while the Greek rural children showed a less favourable cariological status.
(6) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
(7) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
(9) Would the Greek crisis have been avoided if Europe had stuck to fiscal discipline?
(10) Greece standoff over €86bn bailout eases after Brussels deal Read more But while the bailout chiefs are poised to agree on a route map, the journey for the Greek people seems no less long and arduous.
(11) "But if public opposition to further austerity measures hardens, the Greek government could find it even tougher to put the public finances back on a sustainable footing."
(12) Financial experts aren't immediately sure what to make of the report, but one theory is that the figure includes the 'profits' the European Central Bank has made by buying Greek debt at distressed levels since the crisis began: econhedge (@econhedge) suggestion that this is planned EUR31.5b+ECB profits.
(13) The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras welcomed the IMF’s intervention saying in a TV interview that what the IMF said was never put to him during negotiations.
(14) To leave the Euro, says Clarke, would be "disastrous" for the Greeks.
(15) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
(16) In the context of a simplified diamond lattice model of a six-member, Greek key beta-barrel protein that is closely related in topology to plastocyanin, the nature of the folding and unfolding pathways have been investigated using dynamic Monte Carlo techniques.
(17) Greek debt crisis: What's in the proposals from Athens?
(18) The decision triggers a refusal by the EU and the IMF to forward new funds to pay interest on Greek debts.
(19) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(20) In Paris, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President François Hollande tried to plot a common strategy after Greeks returned a resounding no to five years of eurozone-scripted austerity.
Mnemonic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Mnemonical
Example Sentences:
(1) The selected students had normal intellectual capacity but often showed inadequate progress in school, attentive-mnemonic deficiencies, and psychopathological elements of a depressive nature.
(2) Although those receiving active pretraining plus mnemonics did not differ from one another at Time 3, they recalled more than those with no active pretraining.
(3) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
(4) No consistent hemispheric specialization nor difference in direction of interhemispheric communication was observed despite the use of different types of material and the different mnemonic tasks.
(5) It is suggested that natural analogs of pyrimidine, whose precursor is orotic acid, are universal endogenous regulators of mnemonic and antianxiety functions.
(6) The young group showed significantly higher recall and recognition (both immediate and delayed) for the digit-symbol pairs and were more likely to report the use of mnemonic techniques in learning the pairs.
(7) Thus, theta-rhythm may play a modulating role in the induction of LTP, suggesting a possible mnemonic function for the rhythm during the behaviors in which it occurs.
(8) A combination of drugs dilating the heart vessels with drugs improving metabolism and the brain blood flow resulted in an improvement of mnemonic function.
(9) Women must be taught the serious adverse effects to watch for: a mnemonic "ACHES" is suggested.
(10) The effect of intravenous atropine (1 mg) or saline on mnemonic function was tested in patients with various forms of dementia and age-matched controls.
(11) These results indicate that animals showing a definitive sign of tolerance to OP administration (subsensitivity to a cholinergic agonist) were also functionally impaired on both the mnemonic and motoric demands of a working memory task.
(12) In essence, it is argued that the human amygdala is responsible for activating or reactivating those mnemonic events which are of an emotional significance for the subjects' life history and that this (re-)activation is performed by charging sensory information with appropriate emotional cues.
(13) Sixty-two normal elderly subjects averaging 71 years old were taught a common mnemonic device for recall of lists using a Computer-Aided Instruction (CAI) package.
(14) In summary, these results indicate that primate prefrontal cortex participates in visual information processing and may code several aspects of visual stimuli including behavioral significance and mnemonic representations.
(15) These results suggest that frequency-specific RF plasticity in the MGv may be a substrate of short-term mnemonic processes that could participate in long-term storage of information and modification of the representation of the CS at the auditory cortex.
(16) This finding identifies a neurochemical change associated with classical conditioning which is similar to the increase in transmitter release seen in hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), and which is consistent with the hypothesis that an LTP-like mechanism is involved in mnemonic processes.
(17) Activation by vaginocervical stimulation of the "mnemonic" neurogenic system that controls the autonomous nocturnal prolactin surges did not interfere with the reflexive pup-induced release of prolactin in maternally behaving virgins.
(18) The deteriorating effect of amphetamine on mnemonic processes and its facilitatory effect on behaviors directed to get more than the usual amount of pleasant tactile stimulation might underlie the behavioral changes described in this study.
(19) The study of this effect in the case of poly(dA).oligo(dT) replication led us to propose a mnemonic model for Pol I, in which the 3' to 5' excision activity warms up when the enzyme is actively polymerizing, and cools down when it dissociates from the template.
(20) Although mnemonic interpretations of hippocampal function in people have been readily accepted for many years, similar interpretations of hippocampal function in animals have received a number of challenges.