英语词汇“to grey out”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive.

a. To drain of colour; to cause to change to a paler shade; to colour or shade with grey. Also figurative: to reduce the distinctiveness, individuality, or vitality of.

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1938 B. Breuer Daughter xvii. 242 Tait..looked more like a drained-out farmer than an oppressor of any men, the color grayed out of his brown flimsy wool suit by the sun.

1943 G. C. Bastian & L. D. Case Editing Day's News (ed. 3) 284 An airbrush..is especially useful in graying out unwanted details or blowing back a too prominent background.

1955 E. Stevenson Henry Adams xxi. 325 The naïve directness of the flat and flaring colors of the windows of Chartres stood for a whole side of man's life which had been grayed out in recent centuries.

1986 New Yorker 10 Feb. 109/1 Everything has been grayed out: the bureaucrats wear suits that are as alike as prison uniforms.

2005 J. Clanchy Vincenzo's Garden 37 The eyebrows..had thinned, greyed out.

b. Computing. To cause (a menu item, icon, or other element of a user interface) to be displayed in grey, or more faintly, esp. as a means of indicating the unavailability of the option represented. Also intransitive.

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1983 Observ. from CHI 83 in net.cog-eng (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Mar. The Interlisp-D system ‘grays out’ a window..when changes to source have made the information in that window..obsolete.

1992 UnixWorld Apr. 76/2 Buttons and menu options are grayed-out automatically when their callbacks are disabled.

1993 PC Mag. 26 Oct. 39/2 If you..select the cell below, the legend greys out.

2011 G. Plumley Website Design & Devel. v. 98 The second type of popup greys out the current browser window.

2. intransitive. To experience greyout (greyout n.).

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1944 Boy's Mag. Mar. 26/1 Men can withstand three or four ‘Gs’ before they grey out; maybe five or six ‘Gs’ before they black out; maybe seven ‘Gs’ before they lose consciousness.

1956 J. E. Johnson Wing Leader iii. 44 The Spit protests and shudders, and when the blood drains from your eyes you ‘grey-out’.

1989 A. Dillard Writing Life vii. 103 Pilots alternate the pressures carefully, so they do not gray out or black out.

2000 J. Harris Blackberry Wine (2001) xlviii. 250 His back hurt—he must have strained it when he greyed out in the cellar.

2008 N. Tarn Avia vi. 82 Banks into turn, greys-out and moderates to forestall spin.

单词	to grey out
释义	> as lemmas to grey out to grey out 1. transitive. a. To drain of colour; to cause to change to a paler shade; to colour or shade with grey. Also figurative: to reduce the distinctiveness, individuality, or vitality of. ΚΠ 1938 B. Breuer Daughter xvii. 242 Tait..looked more like a drained-out farmer than an oppressor of any men, the color grayed out of his brown flimsy wool suit by the sun. 1943 G. C. Bastian & L. D. Case Editing Day's News (ed. 3) 284 An airbrush..is especially useful in graying out unwanted details or blowing back a too prominent background. 1955 E. Stevenson Henry Adams xxi. 325 The naïve directness of the flat and flaring colors of the windows of Chartres stood for a whole side of man's life which had been grayed out in recent centuries. 1986 New Yorker 10 Feb. 109/1 Everything has been grayed out: the bureaucrats wear suits that are as alike as prison uniforms. 2005 J. Clanchy Vincenzo's Garden 37 The eyebrows..had thinned, greyed out. b. Computing. To cause (a menu item, icon, or other element of a user interface) to be displayed in grey, or more faintly, esp. as a means of indicating the unavailability of the option represented. Also intransitive. ΚΠ 1983 Observ. from CHI 83 in net.cog-eng (Usenet newsgroup) 7 Mar. The Interlisp-D system ‘grays out’ a window..when changes to source have made the information in that window..obsolete. 1992 UnixWorld Apr. 76/2 Buttons and menu options are grayed-out automatically when their callbacks are disabled. 1993 PC Mag. 26 Oct. 39/2 If you..select the cell below, the legend greys out. 2011 G. Plumley Website Design & Devel. v. 98 The second type of popup greys out the current browser window. 2. intransitive. To experience greyout (greyout n.). ΚΠ 1944 Boy's Mag. Mar. 26/1 Men can withstand three or four ‘Gs’ before they grey out; maybe five or six ‘Gs’ before they black out; maybe seven ‘Gs’ before they lose consciousness. 1956 J. E. Johnson Wing Leader iii. 44 The Spit protests and shudders, and when the blood drains from your eyes you ‘grey-out’. 1989 A. Dillard Writing Life vii. 103 Pilots alternate the pressures carefully, so they do not gray out or black out. 2000 J. Harris Blackberry Wine (2001) xlviii. 250 His back hurt—he must have strained it when he greyed out in the cellar. 2008 N. Tarn Avia vi. 82 Banks into turn, greys-out and moderates to forestall spin. extracted from greygrayv. < as lemmas
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