Gross vs More - What's the difference?
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(US, slang) Disgusting.
Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
* 1874 : Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
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, title= Great, large, bulky, or fat.
* 2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books , 35.IV:
Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
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, title= Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
* Milton
Twelve dozen = 144.
The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
The bulk, the mass, the masses.
To earn money, not including expenses.
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, title= To a greater degree or extent.
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(senseid) Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
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English
Adjective
(en-adj)- But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross . Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
- He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross .
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.
Synonyms
* (disgusting) (l), (l), (l) * (fat) See alsoAntonyms
* fine * (total before any deductions) netNoun
(en-noun)Verb
(es)- The movie gross ed three million on the first weekend.
Derived terms
* gross receipts * gross weight * gross income ----more
English
(wikipedia more)Etymology 1
From (etyl) more, from (etyl) .Determiner
(en determiner)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
Adverb
(-)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more .
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}