Raised vs Grossed - What's the difference?
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(raise)
(label) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
# To form by the accumulation of materials or constituent parts; to build up; to erect.
#* Bible, (w) xxxix. 3
# To cause something to come to the surface of the sea.
# (label) To cause (the land or any other object) to seem higher by drawing nearer to it.
# (label) To cause (a dead person) to live again, to cause to be undead.
# (military) To remove or break up (a blockade), either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
(label) To create, increase or develop.
# To collect.
# To bring up; to grow; to promote.
# To mention (a question, issue) for discussion.
# (label) To create; to constitute (a use , or a beneficial interest in property).
# (label) To bring into being; to produce; to cause to arise, come forth, or appear.
#* Bible, (w) xviii. 18.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
(label) To exponentiate, to involute.
To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
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To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or printing in which the sum payable is specified.
(US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
(weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
(curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
(poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
(gross)
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(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.
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As verbs the difference between raised and grossed
is that raised is (raise) while grossed is (gross).raised
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*raise
English
Verb
(rais)- I will raise forts against thee.
- I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee.
- God vouchsafes to raise another world From him [Noah], and all his anger to forget.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Synonyms
* liftDerived terms
* raise Cain * raise fire * raise one's eyebrows * raise someone's consciousness * raise the alarm * raise the roof * raised by wolves * raised in a barnNoun
(en noun)- The boss gave me a raise .
Derived terms
* lateral raise * leg raiseAnagrams
*grossed
English
Verb
(head)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.