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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The entire amount of income before any deductions are made
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("gross" is a kind of...):
amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gross"):
box office (total admission receipts for an entertainment)
gate (total admission receipts at a sports event)
Derivation:
gross (earn before taxes, expenses, etc.)
gross (before any deductions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Twelve dozen
Synonyms:
144; gross
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("gross" is a kind of...):
large integer (an integer equal to or greater than ten)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
Example:
rank treachery
Synonyms:
crying; egregious; flagrant; glaring; gross; rank
Classified under:
Similar:
conspicuous (obvious to the eye or mind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
Example:
full of language so vulgar it should have been edited
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
indecent (offensive to good taste especially in sexual matters)
Derivation:
grossness (the quality of lacking taste and refinement)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Repellently fat
Example:
a bald porcine old man
Synonyms:
gross; porcine
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Lacking fine distinctions or detail
Example:
the gross details of the structure appear reasonable
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
general (applying to all or most members of a category or group)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Example:
the unadulterated truth
Synonyms:
arrant; complete; consummate; double-dyed; everlasting; gross; perfect; pure; sodding; staring; stark; thorough; thoroughgoing; unadulterated; utter
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Before any deductions
Example:
gross income
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
overall (including everything)
Antonym:
net (remaining after all deductions)
Derivation:
gross (the entire amount of income before any deductions are made)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
Synonyms:
gross; megascopic
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
seeable; visible (capable of being seen; or open to easy view)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they gross ... he / she / it grosses
Past simple: grossed
Past participle: grossed
-ing form: grossing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "gross" is one way to...):
bring in; clear; earn; gain; make; pull in; realise; realize; take in (earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
gross (the entire amount of income before any deductions are made)
Context examples:
A unique macroscopic (gross) anatomic structure that performs specific functions.
(Organ, NCI Thesaurus)
He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Their tendency is gross and illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The gross amount of concomitant medication that the subject is exposed to each day.
(Concomitant Medication Daily Dose, NCI Thesaurus)
But it is to thy grosser feelings that we must turn in such natures as thine, and as thou art no longer under the shield of holy church there is the less difficulty.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We see nothing of them, and this is really an instance of gross inattention.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Retention cysts are gross enlargements of pancreatic ducts secondary to ductal obstruction.
(Pancreatic Cyst, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A report that provides a description of the gross and microscopic examination of the specimen and is used to make a diagnosis and to determine treatment.
(Pathology report, NCI Thesaurus)
The tissue volume that contains a demonstrable gross target volume and/or sub-clinical microscopic malignant disease, which has to be eliminated.
(Clinical Target Volume, NCI Thesaurus)
