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Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.
Chris Pine

Meaning of "grey area" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GREY AREA

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GREY AREA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Grey area is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GREY AREA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of grey area in the English dictionary

The first definition of grey area in the dictionary is a region in which unemployment is relatively high. Other definition of grey area is an area or part of something existing between two extremes and having mixed characteristics of both. Grey area is also an area, situation, etc, lacking clearly defined characteristics.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GREY AREA

grey alder
grey body
grey duck
grey eminence
grey fox
Grey Friar
grey gum
grey gurnard
grey heron
grey import
grey knight
grey market
grey matter
grey mullet
grey nomad
grey nurse shark
Grey Owl
grey panther
grey plover
grey power

WORDS THAT END LIKE GREY AREA

area
catchment area
conservation area
development area
dining area
floor area
mining area
no-go area
reception area
recreation area
restricted area
safe area
service area
six-yard area
smoking area
surface area
target area
technical area
urban area
white area
work area

Synonyms and antonyms of grey area in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «grey area» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GREY AREA

Find out the translation of grey area to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of grey area from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «grey area» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

灰色地带
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zona gris
570 millions of speakers

English

grey area
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग्रे क्षेत्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المنطقة الرمادية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

серая зона
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

área cinzenta
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ধূসর এলাকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

zone grise
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kawasan kelabu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Grauzone
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

グレーゾーン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

회색 영역
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wilayah abu-abu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vùng màu xám
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சாம்பல் பகுதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

राखाडी क्षेत्र
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gri alan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

zona grigia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szara strefa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сіра зона
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zona gri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γκρίζα ζώνη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

grys area
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gråzon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gråsone
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of grey area

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GREY AREA»

The term «grey area» is regularly used and occupies the 68.720 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GREY AREA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about grey area

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5 QUOTES WITH «GREY AREA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word grey area.
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Amanda Donohoe
Women's lives get more interesting the older they get. For some reason, when you hit 35, it turns into a grey area filmically. There's not much more until you start playing grannies. I'm not ready for that. I'm just naffed off that, between 35 and 50, there aren't better things about.
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Julian Fellowes
What I dislike about movie culture is that it often presents a parable of our problems - but the issues are all straightforward and the people are either nice or they're not. In real life, everyone falls between those perimeters, but not many American films operate in that grey area.
3
Neil Jackson
I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.
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Harmony Korine
I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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Chris Pine
Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREY AREA»

Discover the use of grey area in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to grey area and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Grey Area
These are stories that delve into the modern psyche with unsettling and darkly satiric results. "Inclusion" tells the story of a doctor who is illegally testing a new antidepressant made from bee excrement.
Will Self, 2006
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Grey Area: Reissued
From a London where every waiter is an aspiring writer to a supply teacher killed by the colossal philistinism of his pupils, this is a truly inimitable showcase of short stories.
Will Self, 2012
3
No Grey Area
People don't view the world in black and white terms anymore-or do they? Marc A. Caruso was born on 16 February 1975 in Houston, Texas. Raised by an English Major and former debater, writing and reading are in the Caruso DNA.
Marc A. Caruso, 2012
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Central projections of vagal afferents
the periaqueductal grey area, c-Fos expression was increased in the caudal and intermediate part during stimulation of cardiac sympathetic afferents with bradykinin. They were scattered in the dorsal, lateral and ventrolateral periaqueductal ...
Jean-Jacques Puizillout
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The Grey Area
A look into the life of a man who has no control of his life.
V. Boyd, 2002
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Operative Neuromodulation: Volume 2: Neural Networks Surgery
Keywords: Neuromodulation; deep brain stimulation; DBS; peria- quaductal grey area; periventricular grey area; cardiovascular system; orthostatic hypotension. Introduction The periaqueductal grey area (PAG) is well known to be important in  ...
Damianos E. Sakas, Brian A. Simpson, 2007
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Grey Area: 13 Ghost Stories
Imagine that you are trapped in a grey area, neither here nor there, in-between time, space, colours, lives. The vivid stories in Grey Area: 13 Ghost Stories bring this scenario to life.
Nancy S. M. Waldman, Julie a. Serroul, Sherry D. Ramsey, 2013
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High Definition and 24P Cinematography
Without touching the lens setting I now reduce the lighting level while watching the monitor and keep on reducing the level until the grey area on the card is only fractionally lighter than the black patch next to it. I now take a spotmeter reading ...
Paul Wheeler, 2003
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A Grey Area: Congressional Oversight of the Middle Ground ...
"This thesis examines the divide between Title 10 and Title 50 from a congressional oversight perspective.
Michael D. Curry, Air University (U.S.). School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, 2012
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The World Trade Organisation: A Guide to the New Framework ...
GREY-AREA MEASURES Nature of Measures A major problem of the GATT has been with respect to what came to be known as grey-area measures. Over a course of time, several countries have taken trade-restrictive measures which were ...
Bhagirath Lal Das, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREY AREA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term grey area is used in the context of the following news items.
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Michael Grey makes way back to 107.3 WBBL for new morning …
He also wrote a weekly sports column, The Grey Area, for MyNorthwest.com. "I cannot begin to explain how excited I am to be back in West ... «MLive.com, Jul 15»
2
Cyberbullying of children becomes a punishable offense in Pa.
There used to be grey area, and law enforcement sometimes told schools it was their issue, he said. Now the boundaries are clearer. 3 Still ... «York Daily Record/Sunday News, Jul 15»
3
Dope Perfectly Illustrates America's Current Culture War
There is plenty of grey area between those viewpoints as well. Maybe I'm not black enough to have an opinion that should matter. Maybe my ... «VH1.com, Jul 15»
4
NASA's Pluto Flyby Reveals Mysterious Dark Spots
... see Pluto's geology," said New Horizons programme scientist Curt Niebur, who has an interest in the grey area just above the whale's "tail". «Design & Trend, Jul 15»
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Kingston Pharmasave offers in-store beer and winemaking
It's not clear how many businesses were operating in a legal grey area before the province gave U-vints and U-brews a seal of approval. «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
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The EPA's New Clean Water Rule and Why Agribusiness Wants to …
There is a lot of grey area in determining which waters are navigable and which are not. It's counterintuitive, but legally speaking, “navigable ... «Modern Farmer, Jul 15»
7
Spanish push Cuba to settle old debts
Whether that agreement constitutes a final settlement on the matter is a grey area, legally. Acknowledging the issue, Cabarrocas adds: "There ... «The Week UK, Jul 15»
8
Why renting your spare room could be a nice little earner
“The idea of short-term B&B is a bit of a grey area,” Hollingworth says. “A mortgage consent form would be impractical in this situation, so I ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
6 key things to understand about Greece's crisis and what's next
The beauty of an IOU is it exists in the legal grey area between money and debt. If Greece somehow manages to stay in the euro, it could ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
10
Calls to expose 'murky' practice
"It's a reasonable inference to say this is happening but because of the lack of clarity, it's hard to say when it's happening. It is a big grey area.". «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»

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