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Meaning of "greylist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GREYLIST

greylist  [ˈɡreɪˌlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GREYLIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Greylist is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb greylist in English.

WHAT DOES GREYLIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Greylisting

Greylisting is a method of defending e-mail users against spam. A mail transfer agent using greylisting will "temporarily reject" any email from a sender it does not recognize. If the mail is legitimate the originating server will, after a delay, try again and, if sufficient time has elapsed, the email will be accepted.

Definition of greylist in the English dictionary

The definition of greylist in the dictionary is to hold in suspicion, without actually excluding him or her from a particular activity.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GREYLIST

PRESENT

Present
I greylist
you greylist
he/she/it greylists
we greylist
you greylist
they greylist
Present continuous
I am greylisting
you are greylisting
he/she/it is greylisting
we are greylisting
you are greylisting
they are greylisting
Present perfect
I have greylisted
you have greylisted
he/she/it has greylisted
we have greylisted
you have greylisted
they have greylisted
Present perfect continuous
I have been greylisting
you have been greylisting
he/she/it has been greylisting
we have been greylisting
you have been greylisting
they have been greylisting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I greylisted
you greylisted
he/she/it greylisted
we greylisted
you greylisted
they greylisted
Past continuous
I was greylisting
you were greylisting
he/she/it was greylisting
we were greylisting
you were greylisting
they were greylisting
Past perfect
I had greylisted
you had greylisted
he/she/it had greylisted
we had greylisted
you had greylisted
they had greylisted
Past perfect continuous
I had been greylisting
you had been greylisting
he/she/it had been greylisting
we had been greylisting
you had been greylisting
they had been greylisting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will greylist
you will greylist
he/she/it will greylist
we will greylist
you will greylist
they will greylist
Future continuous
I will be greylisting
you will be greylisting
he/she/it will be greylisting
we will be greylisting
you will be greylisting
they will be greylisting
Future perfect
I will have greylisted
you will have greylisted
he/she/it will have greylisted
we will have greylisted
you will have greylisted
they will have greylisted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been greylisting
you will have been greylisting
he/she/it will have been greylisting
we will have been greylisting
you will have been greylisting
they will have been greylisting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would greylist
you would greylist
he/she/it would greylist
we would greylist
you would greylist
they would greylist
Conditional continuous
I would be greylisting
you would be greylisting
he/she/it would be greylisting
we would be greylisting
you would be greylisting
they would be greylisting
Conditional perfect
I would have greylist
you would have greylist
he/she/it would have greylist
we would have greylist
you would have greylist
they would have greylist
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been greylisting
you would have been greylisting
he/she/it would have been greylisting
we would have been greylisting
you would have been greylisting
they would have been greylisting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you greylist
we let´s greylist
you greylist
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to greylist
Past participle
greylisted
Present Participle
greylisting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GREYLIST


A-list
ˈeɪˌlɪst
B-list
ˈbiːˌlɪst
backlist
ˈbækˌlɪst
blacklist
ˈblækˌlɪst
checklist
ˈtʃɛkˌlɪst
Congregationalist
ˌkɒŋɡrɪˈɡeɪʃənəˌlɪst
hand-list
ˈhændˌlɪst
hospitalist
ˈhɒspɪtəˌlɪst
nihilist
ˈnaɪɪˌlɪst
notaphilist
nəʊˈtæfɪˌlɪst
playlist
ˈpleɪˌlɪst
pointillist
ˈpwæntɪˌlɪst
pointilliste
ˈpwæntɪˌlɪst
pteridophilist
ˌterɪˈdɒfɪˌlɪst
shitlist
ˈʃɪtˌlɪst
shortlist
ˈʃɔːtˌlɪst
stocklist
ˈstɒkˌlɪst
transfer-list
ˈtrænsfɜːˌlɪst
waitlist
ˈweɪtˌlɪst
watchlist
ˈwɒtʃˌlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GREYLIST

greyback
greybeard
greybearded
greyed out
greyhead
greyheaded
greyhen
greyhound
greyhound race
greyhound racing
greying
greyish
greylag
greylag goose
greyly
greyness
Greys
greystone
greywacke
greywether

WORDS THAT END LIKE GREYLIST

A list
bucket list
dactylist
finalist
food stylist
hairstylist
idylist
journalist
list
mailing list
mentalist
minimalist
personal stylist
price list
shopping list
socialist
specialist
stylist
vocalist
wish list

Synonyms and antonyms of greylist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «greylist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GREYLIST

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

Translator English - Chinese

灰名单
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lista gris
570 millions of speakers

English

greylist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

greylist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

greylist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

серого списка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

greylist
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

greylist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

greylist
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Greylist
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Greylist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

グレーリスト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

greylist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Greylist
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

greylist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

greylist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्रीलीस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

grilistelemek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

greylist
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

greylist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сірого списку
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

greylist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

greylist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

greylist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

grey
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

grålisting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of greylist

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GREYLIST»

The term «greylist» is normally little used and occupies the 128.003 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «greylist» in the different countries.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GREYLIST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «greylist» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «greylist» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREYLIST»

Discover the use of greylist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to greylist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD
After installing milter-greylist, look at the configuration file /usr/local/etc/ mail/ greylist.conf. This is a standard Unix-style configuration file containing variable assignments, with hash marks indicating comments. Use the configuration file to  ...
Michael Lucas, 2008
2
The Smallest Sendmail Book
The default configuration file that ships with milter-greylist does not have all of these lines below. You should add them to your configuration file in a suitable place. The most important thing to remember about the milter-greylist configuration ...
John Ostrowick, 2008
3
How to Accelerate Your Internet: A Practical Guide to ...
The author of one package, exim-greylist, writes on his website: I no longer maintain this because I no longer use greylisting on my server, it proved to be little efficient when having a lot of other SPAM checks and often deferred valid email for ...
Rob Flickenger, 2006
4
AUUGN
handle (e.g. "greylist"), a socket to communicate through (/var/milter-greylist/milter -greylist.sock), and optionally some other arguments. The final option, confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS, specifies the order that the milters are applied in. In this case ...
5
AUUGN
Greylist. Processing. All state information is held in the file /var/db/spamd. The contents of this file can be viewed and manipulated using the spamdb program, / var/db/spamd can contain four types of entries: A SPAMTRAP entry holds an ...
6
Land Based Marine Pollution: International Law Development
The Paris Convention clearly indicates an intention to eliminate pollution by substances listed in the greylist. In regard to programmes and measures, Article 4 (2.b) says that the Parties "shall implement programmes and measures for the ...
Meng Qing-Nan, 1987
7
Graph-based Email Prioritization
Proposed by Harris, greylist- ing is an automatic method where the mail server stores a triplet containing the IP address, envelope sender address, and envelope recipient address for each incoming email message, rejecting the message if it ...
Ronald Nussbaum, 2008
8
Hard Real-time Garbage Collection Im Modern Object Oriented ...
null) { Object **colour = adr_of_colour(ref); if ((*colour)==white) { (*colour) = greyList; greyList = ref; } } obj->f = ref; .. . Listing 6.3: Write barrier code required in Jamaica when storing a reference ref in the fieldf of object obj. .. . For execution, the ...
Fridtjof Siebert, 2002
9
International legal problems of the environmental protection ...
Convention indicates an intention to eliminate pollution by substances listed in the greylist. In regard to programmes and measures, Article 4 (2.b) of the Paris Convention says that the Parties "shall implement programmes and measures for  ...
M. Fitzmaurice, 1992
10
Sys Admin: The Journal for UNIX System Administrators
Here are some statistics from our mail server over the past four days: 114852 SMTP connections 26502 message delivery attempts 22904 new greylist database "triple" entries 1071 1 unique hosts making new greylist entries 2576 messages ...
‎2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREYLIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term greylist is used in the context of the following news items.
1
International Reinsurance Newsletter - 4th Edition: Latin America …
... the way for Panama's removal from the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) "greylist" of "Improving Global AML/CFT Compliance" countries. «Mondaq News Alerts, Jun 15»
2
Storj creates a network to allow users to rent out spare HDD storage
Storj acknowledges there is an issue with the inevitability of illegal content, so they have added a 'greylist' that users can opt in or out of. «TweakTown, Jan 15»
3
Damages Directive adopted: wave of antitrust damages actions looms
Greylist: information prepared by the parties and the competition authority in the course of enforcement proceedings are protected from ... «Lexology, Nov 14»
4
Viewfinity Launches Industry-First App Control + Managed Admin …
Applications not yet classified run in a "greylist mode" and are automatically evaluated and assigned to a white/black list. Our patent-pending ... «Dark Reading, Jul 13»
5
Cyber attack called biggest in history
There is a third list, called a greylist, that contains sites that are temporarily blocked until they can be verified as safe. A filtering company such ... «WND.com, Mar 13»
6
Charter cities: The future trade centres of the world?
OECD attempts to blacklist (or 'greylist') Hong Kong in 2009 were resisted by China. The OECD frequently sees jurisdictions with reasonable ... «Caymanian Compass, Sep 12»
7
Doctors urged to limit 'patients' Viagra pills to once a fortnight for …
'Local priorities committees don't understand the only restrictions on GP prescribing come from the national “Blacklist” and “Greylist”.'. «Daily Mail, Dec 11»
8
IPv6 Structure Will Require New Security Policies and Tactics
... include all the spam that never made it on to the network because the firewall blocked it based on blacklisted DNS hosts and greylist settings. «eWeek, Feb 11»
9
Your mail server sucks!
This meant that using milters such as MIMEDefang, milter-greylist, and others wasn't possible. However, Postfix finally added this support in ... «InfoWorld, Nov 09»
10
Spam prevention with Exim and greylistd - Part 2 - management and …
In part one of this tutorial looked at installing and configuring greylistd alongside Exim to help combat the evils of Spam. In this second part I will ... «Free Software Magazine, Sep 08»

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