"greeble" meaning in All languages combined

See greeble on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɹiːbliː/ Audio: En-us-greeble.ogg Forms: greebles [plural]
Etymology: * A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film. * The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson. Head templates: {{en-noun}} greeble (plural greebles)
  1. A small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object and add visual interest, particularly in movie special effects. Synonyms: nurnie
    Sense id: en-greeble-en-noun-oKuyqQ47 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 55 22 23
  2. (psychology) Any of a set of invented novel objects used as stimuli in psychological studies of object and face recognition. Categories (topical): Psychology
    Sense id: en-greeble-en-noun-msbxKAho Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɹiːbliː/ Audio: En-us-greeble.ogg Forms: greebles [present, singular, third-person], greebling [participle, present], greebled [participle, past], greebled [past]
Etymology: * A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film. * The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson. Head templates: {{en-verb}} greeble (third-person singular simple present greebles, present participle greebling, simple past and past participle greebled)
  1. (transitive) To add greebles to a surface. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-greeble-en-verb-8e4-GVnp

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for greeble meaning in All languages combined (3.9kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "* A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film.\n* The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greebles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "greeble (plural greebles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gree‧ble"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "55 22 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object and add visual interest, particularly in movie special effects."
      ],
      "id": "en-greeble-en-noun-oKuyqQ47",
      "links": [
        [
          "detailing",
          "detailing"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ],
        [
          "visual",
          "visual"
        ],
        [
          "movie",
          "movie"
        ],
        [
          "special effect",
          "special effect"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nurnie"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Psychology",
          "orig": "en:Psychology",
          "parents": [
            "Social sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Hugh W. Catts, Alan G. Kamhi, The Connections Between Language and Reading Disabilities, page 93",
          "text": "Because, compared to other objects, face recognition seems to be especially sensitive to stimulus orientation, Gauthier had subjects perform a matching task with upright or inverted faces and greebles in the scanner, hypothesizing that greeble expertise would be specific to viewing them in the trained, upright orientation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a set of invented novel objects used as stimuli in psychological studies of object and face recognition."
      ],
      "id": "en-greeble-en-noun-msbxKAho",
      "links": [
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ],
        [
          "stimuli",
          "stimulus"
        ],
        [
          "recognition",
          "recognition"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(psychology) Any of a set of invented novel objects used as stimuli in psychological studies of object and face recognition."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹiːbliː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-greeble.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-us-greeble.ogg/En-us-greeble.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-us-greeble.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Robert Abelson"
  ],
  "word": "greeble"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "* A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film.\n* The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greebles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greebling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greebled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greebled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "greeble (third-person singular simple present greebles, present participle greebling, simple past and past participle greebled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gree‧ble"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're going to greeble the surface of the model to give it a more convincing look."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To add greebles to a surface."
      ],
      "id": "en-greeble-en-verb-8e4-GVnp",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To add greebles to a surface."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹiːbliː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-greeble.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-us-greeble.ogg/En-us-greeble.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-us-greeble.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Robert Abelson"
  ],
  "word": "greeble"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "* A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film.\n* The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greebles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "greeble (plural greebles)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gree‧ble"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object and add visual interest, particularly in movie special effects."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "detailing",
          "detailing"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ],
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ],
        [
          "visual",
          "visual"
        ],
        [
          "movie",
          "movie"
        ],
        [
          "special effect",
          "special effect"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "nurnie"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Psychology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2005, Hugh W. Catts, Alan G. Kamhi, The Connections Between Language and Reading Disabilities, page 93",
          "text": "Because, compared to other objects, face recognition seems to be especially sensitive to stimulus orientation, Gauthier had subjects perform a matching task with upright or inverted faces and greebles in the scanner, hypothesizing that greeble expertise would be specific to viewing them in the trained, upright orientation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of a set of invented novel objects used as stimuli in psychological studies of object and face recognition."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "psychology",
          "psychology"
        ],
        [
          "stimuli",
          "stimulus"
        ],
        [
          "recognition",
          "recognition"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(psychology) Any of a set of invented novel objects used as stimuli in psychological studies of object and face recognition."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹiːbliː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-greeble.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-us-greeble.ogg/En-us-greeble.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-us-greeble.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Robert Abelson"
  ],
  "word": "greeble"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "* A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film.\n* The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greebles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greebling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greebled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "greebled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "greeble (third-person singular simple present greebles, present participle greebling, simple past and past participle greebled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gree‧ble"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're going to greeble the surface of the model to give it a more convincing look."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To add greebles to a surface."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To add greebles to a surface."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɹiːbliː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-greeble.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-us-greeble.ogg/En-us-greeble.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-us-greeble.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Robert Abelson"
  ],
  "word": "greeble"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (372f256 and 664a3bc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.