Gross vs Improper - What's the difference?
gross | improper | Related terms |
(US, slang) Disgusting.
Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
* 1874 : Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
* , chapter=12
, 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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
* '>citation
unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt
Not in keeping with conventional mores or good manners; indecent or immodest
Not according to facts; inaccurate or erroneous
Not consistent with established facts; incorrect
Not properly named; See, for example, improper fraction
(obsolete) Not specific or appropriate to individuals; general; common.
* J. Fletcher
(obsolete) To appropriate; to limit.
* Jewel
(obsolete) To behave improperly
(Webster 1913)
As adjectives the difference between gross and improper
is that gross is disgusting while improper is unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.As verbs the difference between gross and improper
is that gross is to earn money, not including expenses while improper is to appropriate; to limit.As a noun gross
is twelve dozen = 144.As a proper noun Gross
is {{surname|from=Middle English}}, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English {{term|gros||large|lang=enm}}.gross
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 ----improper
English
Alternative forms
* impropre (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Not to be adorned with any art but such improper ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and poetry.
Derived terms
* improper divisor * improper face * improper fit * improper fraction * improper integral * improper motion * improper node * improper orthogonal transformation * improper rotation * improper use * improper workmanshipVerb
(en verb)- He would in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor.