Gross

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Exclusive of deductions; total: synonym: whole.
  • adjective. Unmitigated in any way; utter.
  • adjective. So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense: synonym: flagrant.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Brutishly coarse, as in behavior; crude.
  • adjective. Disgusting or offensive.
  • adjective. Overweight; corpulent.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. On a large scale; not fine or detailed.
  • adjective. Broad; general.
  • noun. The entire body or amount, as of income, before necessary deductions have been made.
  • noun. A group of 144 items; 12 dozen.
  • transitive verb. To earn as a total income or profit before deductions.
  • phrasal verb. To fill with disgust; nauseate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Great; large; big; bulky.
  • Unusually large or plump, as from coarse growth or fatness: applied to plants or animals, and implying in men excessive or repulsive fatness.
  • Coarse in texture or form; coarse in taste, or as related to any of the senses; not fine or delicate.
  • Coarse in a moral sense; vulgar; indelicate; broad: applied to either persons or things.
  • Remarkably glaring or reprehensible; enormous; shameful; flagrant: as, a gross mistake; gross injustice.
  • Thick; dense; not attenuated; not refined or pure: as, a gross medium; gross air; gross elements.
  • Not acute or sensitive in perception, apprehension, or feeling; stupid; dull.
  • Whole; entire; total; specifically, without deduction, as for charges or waste material; without allowance of tare and tret: opposed to net: as, the gross sum or amount; gross profits, income, or weight.
  • General; not entering into detail.
  • noun. The main body; the chief part; the bulk; the mass: now chiefly or only in the phrase in gross or in the gross (which see, below).
  • noun. A unit of tale, consisting of twelve dozen, or 144. It never has the plural form: as, five gross or ten gross.
  • noun. Thick soft food, such as porridge, etc. Halliwell.
  • To engross.
  • After large game: as, to fly gross: said of a hawk.
  • Relatively large; specifically, visible to the naked eye; megascopic; not microscopic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
  • noun. The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve
  • noun. an advowson belonging to a person, and not to a manor.
  • noun. twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four dozen.
  • noun. by the quantity; at wholesale.
  • noun. See under Common, n.
  • noun. in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together.
  • noun. undefined
  • adjective. Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
  • adjective. Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
  • adjective. Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
  • adjective. Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
  • adjective. Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive.
  • adjective. Thick; dense; not attenuated.
  • adjective. Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful
  • adjective. Whole; entire; total; without deduction; ; -- opposed to net.
  • adjective. the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
  • adjective. that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average.
  • adjective. the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits.
  • adjective. the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat weight, or net weight.
  • Word Usage
    "In addition, from time to time on this call we refer to the term gross sales."
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    delicate  fastidious  net  nice  refined  
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    Grosz  adios  arkose  bowse  close  
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    Adamic  Boeotian  C  Circean  Doric  
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