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Definition of gross in English: grossadjective ɡrəʊsɡroʊs 1(especially of wrongdoing) very obvious and unacceptable. gross human rights abuses 太过分的夸大。 Example sentencesExamples - And that was seen widely as a gross abuse of power.
- We are concerned about these stories which seem to be a gross exaggeration of the facts.
- I think it would be a gross exaggeration to say there are difficulties all over the country with them.
- We and the civilized world are in shock at this gross inhumanity, and we extend heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed and wounded.
- The only problem with this report is that it contains flat out misrepresentations, gross exaggerations, flying leaps of logic and claims that cannot stand up to rigorous scrutiny.
- To say that such a fate would be unpleasant would be an astronomically gross understatement.
- The indignation is compounded by evidence of gross corruption.
- Thirdly, the level of discrimination involved was gross and obvious.
- To suggest that it would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration.
- We're more worried about the gross abuses and gross exaggerations of these ideas which originated in philosophy of science but which have trickled down in vulgarised form to anthropology and cultural studies.
- The video footage was so obviously a gross invasion of privacy and a violation of human dignity.
- However, the irregularities of the count, and the gross violence and intimidation in the months leading up to the vote, make her legal challenge to the result very strong.
- Such a picture is clearly a gross exaggeration.
- So the idea that you can buy your way in is much more than a ‘trade in titles’; it is a gross corruption of the system.
- Even if we forget about principle and adopt a pragmatic stance, there is little to be gained in appeasing gross violence by the powerful.
- The apathy, lack of understanding and political will and gross corruption in the government enhances the scope of the industry to continue with impunity.
- Right now my research is taking the form of looking into the gross human-rights abuses in our prison system, particularly women's prisons.
- He is disgusting when he uses gross oversimplifications to describe the policies of foreign leaders.
- Instead, she has chosen a dangerous, heartbreaking life, which sees risk and suffering and gross inhumanity every single day.
- ‘This is unacceptable and a gross waste of effort,’ he said.
Synonyms flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, overt, evident, conspicuous naked, barefaced, shameless, brazen, audacious, brass-necked undisguised, unconcealed, patent, transparent, manifest, palpable out and out, utter, complete outrageous, scandalous, shocking, disgraceful, reprehensible, dreadful, terrible enormous, heinous, atrocious, monstrous, wicked, iniquitous, villainous archaic arrant 2(of income, profit, or interest) without deduction of tax or other contributions; total. （收入、利润或利息）毛的；总的 the gross amount of the gift was £1,000 赠品的总额为1，000英镑。 Often contrasted with net (sense 1 of the adjective) Example sentencesExamples - The very high rates of interest then lead to a sharp fall in net profits, and interest payments might even exceed the entire gross profit in the case of some branches or regions.
- The Cabinet is most likely to stand by its commitments concerning profit tax and gross income tax.
- Please specify whether ‘revenues’ is a reference to total income, total turnover, gross profit, net profit or some other measure of income.
- There was evidence of healthy like-for-like growth in both revenues and gross profit.
- Net profit is your gross profit less taxes and interest.
- A non-resident is taxed in Spain on income arising from Spanish property at the rate of 25 per cent on gross income without any deductions for expenses or interest costs.
- For self-employed applicants, the Department of Education wants to see a full declaration of total gross income.
- There was discontent regarding the 54% default level set for British horseracing's share of total gross profits.
- This is like the gross profit figure for other companies (except that interest has already been removed since that's an operational activity for banks).
- You can't start deducting such items until they total 2% of adjusted gross income.
- The ordinary income rate that you are taxed under is dependent on the amount of adjusted gross income that you receive for the tax year and your filing status.
- Companies whose deductions exceed gross income for 2001 and 2002 will be allowed to carry the deductions back and re-file taxes for past years.
- As a result of these contributions, their 2002 adjusted gross income is $30,000.
- That means your loss, combined with all other miscellaneous deductions, must exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income for it to do you any good.
- After subtracting the general operating costs and the depreciation from the gross profit, we arrive at the operating income.
- Figures for income, gross profit, salaries, motor expenses, drawings etc are fed into the Revenue computer system.
- Last year's gross revenues amounted to more than $7 million.
- If a guarantee is received that a room will be rented under the scheme, banks are believed to be willing to add the tax free amount to your gross income prior to deciding your mortgage entitlement.
- Since land-value increment tax is a tax on gains in asset income or value, all the occurring costs and fees are deductible from the gross income.
- The overall effect will be offset by higher insurance thresholds, and a slightly higher base for income taxation as social contributions are deducted from gross income before charging income taxes.
Synonyms total, whole, entire, complete, full, overall, comprehensive, aggregate before deductions, before tax - 2.1 (of weight) including contents, wrappings, or other variable items; overall.
（重量）一切包括在内的；总计的；毛的 a projected gross take-off weight of 500,000 pounds 设计的起飞总重量为500，000磅。 Example sentencesExamples - Liberator crews used the instrument to calculate gross weight and centre of gravity, as well as to examine the effect of the centre of gravity of crew movement, fuel consumption and release of bomb loads.
- When the jet was stable, we began a wide, right-hand turn toward land and set up an orbit about 20 miles northeast of Oceana to adjust gross weight.
- Once inside the factory grounds, the lorries drive over a weighbridge where their gross weight is automatically measured.
- Our rule of thumb is that a floor jack needs to be rated for at least three-quarters of a vehicle's gross weight.
- An employer now requires approval from the Director of Inspection with responsibility for mines only when the gross weight of such a machine is over 32,000 kilograms.
- Airplanes can't exceed a gross weight of 1,320 pounds or 1,430 pounds for seaplanes.
- This would have permitted much more flexibility in basing since the B-52 is limited by its heavy gross weight and long takeoff ground roll.
- Our three-engine rate of climb would have been extremely limited with the inability to raise gear, high gross weight, and high ambient temperature.
- Was I good enough to take off at a high gross weight, lose an engine, avoid the unseen mountains within a mile and a half of the field while on instruments?
- My body definitely wouldn't handle 7.5 Gs if I didn't adjust my gross weight before takeoff.
- This whole thing will be run like a classic flight test program of expanding the envelope, but we will always take off at full gross weight.
- This profile required the crew to make sure the autorotation RPM was within limits based on environmental conditions and aircraft gross weight.
- All-out gross weight - loaded, gas etc. - would run about 68,847 pounds.
- A no-flap approach was flown with a 220,000 lb gross weight, flying at 198 knots indicated airspeed.
- He weighed his reasons on scales that could count not just gross weight but the minuscule grammage of real worth.
- She then maneuvered the jet away from populated areas and gained altitude while simultaneously dumping fuel to reduce gross weight for landing.
- Because our gross weight was about 40,000 pounds above max-landing gross weight, we continued, gear down, to Colorado Springs.
- At gross weight, the B - 2 tipped the scales at 1299 pounds.
- A figure of a gross weight of about 30 tonnes was mentioned.
- To relate this to current practice a tractor and trailer combination today with a load of sugar beet or barley would have a gross weight of over 20 tonnes.
- 2.2 (of a score in golf) as actually played, without taking handicap into account.
（高尔夫球的得分）实际所得的 Example sentencesExamples - Those scores were gross scores off his newly lowered 27 handicap!
- A gross score of 66 less their team handicap of 6 produced a net 60.
- Division III took care of players with no official handicap and was awarded to the player with the lowest gross score.
- Off a combined handicap of 5 they returned a gross score of 68 to produce net a 63.
- She broke the ladies' course record, on the Kirkwall golf course, on Tuesday evening, with a gross score of 68.
3Very rude or coarse; vulgar. a gross, slap-and-tickle version of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Example sentencesExamples - Matter exists on a gross level, is stable and slow to change.
- While on a gross level we can distinguish one thing from another, on a refined level no thing is actually find-able.
- The former worships the gross material object, while the latter have recourse to imagery.
- By the influence of the mode of passion, which is related to air, we endeavor to manifest the form on the gross level.
- A man fallen in the ocean of nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing his outward dress - the gross material body.
- I found your gross tongues disgusting in their barbarism, but still I learned them.
- Jane was no beauty, always delving into some novel of gross sentimentality, and her conversational skills were disgustingly average.
Synonyms vulgar, coarse, crude, obscene, rude, ribald, lewd, bawdy, dirty, filthy, earthy, smutty, risqué, indecent, indelicate, improper, impure, unseemly, offensive, pornographic informal sleazy, porno, porn, raunchy, naughty, blue, steamy, spicy, locker-room British informal fruity, saucy, near the knuckle, close to the bone North American informal gamy euphemistic adult rare concupiscent boorish, loutish, oafish, thuggish, brutish, bearish, Neanderthal, philistine, coarse, uncouth, unsavoury, crass, vulgar, common, unrefined, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated, undiscriminating, tasteless, insensitive, unfeeling, imperceptive, callous informal cloddish, slobbish, plebby, clodhopping British informal yobbish Australian/New Zealand informal ocker - 3.1 Unattractively fat or bloated.
粗大的；臃肿的；肥胖的 I feel fat, gross—even my legs feel flabby 我觉得自己又胖又臃肿我甚至觉得腿上的肉都是松弛的。 Example sentencesExamples - At least a third of the people promenading along the seafront were more than just overweight - they were gross, with their swollen bellies leading the way.
Synonyms obese, corpulent, overweight, fat, big, large, outsize, outsized, massive, immense, huge, colossal, fleshy, flabby, portly, bloated, bulky, lumpish informal hulking, porky, pudgy, tubby, blubbery, roly-poly British informal podgy, fubsy North American vulgar slang lard-assed rare pursy, abdominous - 3.2informal Very unpleasant; repulsive.
〈非正式〉令人讨厌的，使人憎恶的 ‘Then I threw up,’ said Russ. ‘How gross,’ Ellie muttered Example sentencesExamples - The hospital staff should be more aware of how gross and disgusting it is to see a major hospital not being kept clean.
- And true, he carries at least 108 diseases and is just completely gross and icky and mouse-y.
- I liked the way they were to each other; it didn't seem gross or disgusting, like what other kids had told me.
- He came back to the table and told Sam that Ms. Shaw thought it was gross and icky.
- I mean, everyone I talk to thinks I'm a nerdy loser or a gross loser or an obnoxious loser.
- So, to all you spitters out there: it's gross, disgusting, unhealthy and classless, and every time you do it you look like a trashy hood rat.
- He likes gross, disgusting, and obscene killings.
- The tracks were strewn with trash - gross, disgusting and overwhelming.
- You're gross, you're disgusting and you don't even know how to dress well.
- Spiders are fundamentally gross and yucky creatures and any messing with their place in the scheme of things will produce something grosser and yuckier still.
- Blame it on a yucky mix of sweat and gross bacteria.
- Do you know how sick, gross, and disgusting that is?
- Once again, it is not intended that these observations lead to a conclusion that writing for reluctant reader boys must necessarily be gross and disgusting, far from it.
- That was gross and disgusting and I don't think I want to talk to you anymore.
- This went beyond gross and into seriously disgusting.
- No subject is taboo, and there is no subject so gross, so obnoxious, so embarrassing, it cannot be paraded in front of everyone.
- Whilst we gained a sense of Caliban's non-humanness, we lost much sense of him as a gross, repulsive creature.
Synonyms disgusting, repellent, repulsive, abhorrent, loathsome, detestable, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, off-putting, unpalatable, unappetizing, uninviting, unsavoury, distasteful, foul, nasty, obnoxious, odious North American vomitous informal yucky, icky, sick-making, gut-churning British informal grotty archaic disgustful
4General or large-scale; not detailed. 大范围的；粗略的 at the gross anatomical level 在粗略的解剖学层面上。 Example sentencesExamples - In summary, this is an excellent book with extremely useful text, superb gross pictures, and generally very good microscopic pictures.
- Oh, we have a good idea, on a gross level, of what governments should not do to really screw up the economy.
- Obviously, these are gross distinctions, but somehow our brains require some way of distinguishing the Old Order from the New.
- Primary homology hypotheses were generated for features of gross morphology, leaf anatomy, and chromosome number.
- Making the world better in gross material terms is nothing to sneeze at.
- If infection is suspected, the wound area must be assessed for obvious signs of gross infection, and the infection should be confirmed by culturing the organism.
- Their genomic structure is similar at a gross level, but has yet to be compared comprehensively in detail.
- Generally, gross lesions are not observed in the central nervous system of birds affected with Newcastle disease virus regardless of the pathotype.
- There is widespread consensus that an organism's lifestyle is often reflected in the skeleton at various levels ranging from gross morphology to histological structure.
adverbɡrəʊsɡroʊs Without tax or other contributions having been deducted. 以毛额计算，未扣除税（或其他费用） if the value of your Bond is £50,000 or more the interest will be paid gross Example sentencesExamples - Overall they estimate that carers save the State at least E2 billion gross each year.
verb ɡrəʊsɡroʊs [with object]1Produce or earn (an amount of money) as gross profit or income. 获得…总收入（或毛利） the film went on to gross $8 million 影片在美国上演获得800万美元总收入。 Example sentencesExamples - And, in the spirit of its trashy themes, it has grossed its director a fortune.
- He also informed delegates that the qualifiers had grossed a million less than in the previous year because of falling attendances.
- Last weekend, four new movies opened and grossed about $61 million between them.
- It would go on to become Fox's highest grossing film of 1948.
- The oversized celebrity has been in 30 films since 1970, grossing hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Let's say that a worker grosses about $9,000 a year.
- In the United States alone, the title grossed an unprecedented $30 million in sales.
- Which film has grossed more money than any other this year?
- For several years, it was the highest grossing film of all time, and that makes a statement worth listening to.
- It was the second highest grossing film in Korea that year, and the highest grossing comedy ever.
- It had enormous success at the box office running for six months in Sydney alone and became one of the three highest grossing Australian documentaries since 2000.
- The first two episodes grossed an extraordinary £1.1 billion.
- Since then, the movie has grossed more than 200 million in theatre and video sales.
- It became the highest grossing film of all time within two months, and every cast member including the dog won Oscars at the Academy Awards.
- If healthcare grosses $1.2 trillion in 1999, and fraud represents 10% of that total, that means a tidy sum of $100 billion a year lost to fraudulent claims.
- When's the last time you hear about a poet's latest world tour grossing a million a night?
- The movie is grossing $25 million dollars a day.
- But who cares what purists or musos think when there's a buck to be grossed?
- This film did of course gross an enormous amount of money worldwide and in America, and also received a pile of Oscar nominations.
- It is the highest grossing R-rated film ever, outdistancing the runner up by 15%.
Synonyms earn, make, bring in, take, get, receive, fetch, draw, collect informal rake in, pull in, haul in, bag - 1.1gross something up Add deductions such as tax to a net amount.
在净额上计入（如税金等的扣除额） all commuting costs were grossed up for tax and National Insurance deductions 所有的通勤费作为税和国民保险扣除额被加到净额上。 Example sentencesExamples - They used the syndicate figures for Syndicates 103 and 1053 and then grossed them up in order to relate to the anticipated premium income - that accounted for the degree of precision.
- It could prove very costly if the payment is grossed up as emoluments.
- Even if we do not gross it up, there is $80,000 in that.
- Some small businesses with gross receipts up to $10 million can now use the cash method of accounting.
- One important aspect of builder/seller funding of downpayments through these programs is that transaction prices are grossed up in excess of true market prices.
- That may not sound much, but, grossing it up, it works out to 35 minutes a week or over 30 hours a year.
- So every pound that you pay into your pension will be grossed up to £1.28.
- I am, however, prepared to ‘add back’ a number of the items that are considered to be personal to the Respondent that are written off as business expenses and grossing that amount up.
- Even if the child is not a taxpayer, contributions are grossed up by the Inland Revenue to a £3,600 limit, which means that the contributor has to provide just £2,808, with the taxman contributing a further £792.
- The maximum you can contribute in a year is £2,808, to which the taxman adds relief, grossing it up up to £3,600.
noun ɡrəʊsɡroʊs 1An amount equal to twelve dozen; 144. 罗（等于12打）；144个 fifty-five gross of tins of processed milk 55罗经过加工的罐装牛奶。 Example sentencesExamples - There have been no single straws - more a gross of wire bound bales weighing down and breaking asunder a once optimistic and enthusiastic camel's back.
- It seems county council might benefit if something suitably heavy (a gross of copies of Chicken Little?) were bounced off the thick heads of its members.
- Personally, I'm wondering just how much he paid for the gross of grovelling apologies he's been using like there's no tomorrow…
- In the meantime, I have ordered a gross of hatches and a quantity of timber from the catalogue, so I can batten them down and engage in some hardcore shivering on the big day.
- That's like giving a kid a gross of bottle rockets and a new Bic lighter, then leaving the boy unsupervised - and being shocked, shocked to hear small explosions in the distance.
2A gross profit or income. 毛利；总收入 the box office grosses mounted 票房总收入增长了。 Example sentencesExamples - But of all the Oscar nominees it has racked up by far the biggest domestic grosses so far.
- It's unfortunate, because while it may lead to big opening grosses, a lot of pictures that are a little different and don't fit so neatly into either a niche market or a high-concept marketing approach can get lost in the shuffle.
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but the two sequels cost about $350M combined, so this assumption is predicated on foreign grosses exceeding domestic.
- Things were helped by its non-US grosses being much greater than that, but still the studio would have been hard pressed to get its outlay back.
- They're so intent on having big first weekend grosses.
- I think one of the problems with film criticism is that we rarely talk about art anymore - we obsess about the grosses, we gossip about the ‘industry,’ we talk about this week's new movie in relation to last week's new movie.
- This is normally a sign that audiences like a film and the film's grosses are going to hold up well in subsequent weeks, so the film's final gross could still be quite good.
- Chaplin had big box-office grosses, but he made relatively few pictures.
- But in terms of commercial success, in terms of grosses - I really don't know.
- Selling out has more to do with ticket grosses than the antimaterialist who stands apart from society.
- Maybe it was at the time when reporting weekend grosses became a feature, and hence a yardstick of a film's importance, in purportedly high-minded papers.
- If you add up the grosses of all these titles and estimate final numbers for this year's already-in-release product, the total should be about the same from last year's 22 to this year's 20.
- Projected grosses are reported during every news show each Sunday night, with ‘real’ numbers arriving 24 hours later.
- The overall box office grosses for the summer season, which ends today, on Labor Day, is just slightly ahead of last summer's record pace.
- It reported grosses for 20 weeks after that, most of which was second run, but that accounted for only $7 million of the $176 million domestic take.
- It has been reporting low grosses so it may fade away soon.
- Now solve it for U.S. grosses, adjusted for inflation.
- In less than thirty years, roughly since the premiere of Star Wars, domestic grosses - once the industry's bread and butter - have become a virtual loss leader.
- Film can sometimes seem obsessed with the hype and glory of the latest passing sensation and the opening weekend grosses of the newest blockbuster.
- Broadway's weekly grosses are running ahead of this time last year, and every theater in the city is booked, with more than a dozen new shows opening over the next six months.
PhrasesIn large numbers or amounts. 〈喻〉大量地，大宗地 auto companies are hiring by the gross Example sentencesExamples - Before you start buying chicken breasts by the gross, here are a few things to consider about eating extra protein.
- In 1982 I dare say I bought packets of chemical slug pellets by the gross.
- Still, unrequited love is on sale cheap, by the gross.
Phrasal Verbs he used to eat worms to gross her out Example sentencesExamples - There are people sitting right behind you and you just grossed them out.
- He told me that his dad is quite comfortable with the handling and filleting of fish so if I ever go fishing, I need to invite his dad along because this grosses me out.
- However, he shot me a disgusted look, as if he was grossed out or something.
- Eh, if I didn't know those two were only best friends, I would be grossed out.
- The thought of a litter tray in a bathroom just grosses me out.
- Add a lot of squashed bugs and stuff that grosses you out.
- Previously, all vacuum cleaners have kept the dirt hidden in a bag, with the assumption that it would simply gross you out to see how dirty your house is.
- Maybe you used to love your dad's juicy T-bones, but the thought of eating meat grosses you out now.
- If certain bodily functions or cockroaches really do gross you out, this study is not for you.
- It grossed me out at first, but it was commonplace in some cultures, especially tribal ones.
- I did get in the kiss as I promised but it was a very quick chaste kinda one so I can't really say too much, other than I wasn't grossed out or anything so I guess he passes the first test.
- I figured you were looking for something you could watch with a woman without grossing her out
- I still like Robbie an awful lot but he kind of grosses me out at the same time.
- My sweetie whispered in my ear that it was totally grossing him out and he couldn't eat any.
- No, the fact that you two got married is what grosses me out.
- He is into the tone and not terribly interested in grossing you out.
- Cronenberg, infamous for exploding heads and such, isn't going to let us go home without grossing us out just a bit.
- That's okay - I did my best to gross him out by telling him about all the sugar we eat for breakfast here.
- I have a problem with blood and it just grosses me out badly.
- I still haven't been able to make it past the second page of this discussion by nurses about what grosses them out, but I hope to do so someday.
- I didn't think raising meat made much of an impression on her other than to gross her out on butchering day.
- If you want to gross him out, get a bowl of tuna salad and hide it under the passenger seat.
- If you plan on remaining roommates and it's really grossing you out, you have a few options.
- I classify scaring the public with such a fact as something equivalent to grossing them out as well.
- Do not test the hearers’ tolerance by grossing them out with gratuitous obscenities.
- Let me run through a few examples of what people have had to do (if stuff grosses you out then stop reading).
- If he's not freaking his classmates out in chemistry class, then he's grossing them out at lunch.
- I guess the idea is completely grossing him out.
- But for all I was grossed out, I was also engrossed.
- He told me he was grossed out by my chocolate maggot story.
Synonyms disgust, revolt, repel, repulse, sicken, nauseate, cause to feel nauseous, make shudder, turn someone's stomach, make someone's gorge rise
Derivativesnoun ˈɡrəʊsnəsˈɡroʊsnəs The mischief of a libel does not always consist in its grossness; on the contrary, when its bitterness is muffled in the garb of innuendo and latent allusion the malicious purpose is more galling for feelings to the wounded party. Example sentencesExamples - Judges expect a Clydesdale to look handsome, weighty and powerful, but with a gaiety of carriage and outlook, so that the impression is given of quality and weight, rather than grossness and bulk.
- Crass suggests a grossness of mind precluding discrimination or delicacy.
- I realize, of course, that I should not have been competing in adult company so long as I failed to appreciate the grossness of these improprieties.
- We live in a world soiled by the grossness and wickedness and filth of sin.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'thick, massive, bulky'): from Old French gros, grosse 'large', from late Latin grossus. engross from Late Middle English: Both engross and gross (Middle English) come ultimately from the Latin word grossus ‘large’. Engross comes from the Latin phrase in grosso ‘wholesale’ and originally meant ‘to buy up the whole of a commodity in order to sell it at a monopoly price’. It is also linked to Middle English grocer—originally a person who sold things ‘in the gross’ or in large quantities. See also retail
Rhymesadiós, chausses, Close, Davos, dose, engross, Grosz, jocose, morose, Rhos, verbose Definition of gross in US English: grossadjectiveɡroʊsɡrōs 1(especially of wrongdoing) very obvious and unacceptable; blatant. gross human rights abuses 太过分的夸大。 Example sentencesExamples - However, the irregularities of the count, and the gross violence and intimidation in the months leading up to the vote, make her legal challenge to the result very strong.
- Such a picture is clearly a gross exaggeration.
- We and the civilized world are in shock at this gross inhumanity, and we extend heartfelt condolences to the families of those killed and wounded.
- To suggest that it would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration.
- And that was seen widely as a gross abuse of power.
- Even if we forget about principle and adopt a pragmatic stance, there is little to be gained in appeasing gross violence by the powerful.
- He is disgusting when he uses gross oversimplifications to describe the policies of foreign leaders.
- To say that such a fate would be unpleasant would be an astronomically gross understatement.
- Instead, she has chosen a dangerous, heartbreaking life, which sees risk and suffering and gross inhumanity every single day.
- ‘This is unacceptable and a gross waste of effort,’ he said.
- We're more worried about the gross abuses and gross exaggerations of these ideas which originated in philosophy of science but which have trickled down in vulgarised form to anthropology and cultural studies.
- Right now my research is taking the form of looking into the gross human-rights abuses in our prison system, particularly women's prisons.
- I think it would be a gross exaggeration to say there are difficulties all over the country with them.
- The video footage was so obviously a gross invasion of privacy and a violation of human dignity.
- Thirdly, the level of discrimination involved was gross and obvious.
- We are concerned about these stories which seem to be a gross exaggeration of the facts.
- So the idea that you can buy your way in is much more than a ‘trade in titles’; it is a gross corruption of the system.
- The only problem with this report is that it contains flat out misrepresentations, gross exaggerations, flying leaps of logic and claims that cannot stand up to rigorous scrutiny.
- The apathy, lack of understanding and political will and gross corruption in the government enhances the scope of the industry to continue with impunity.
- The indignation is compounded by evidence of gross corruption.
Synonyms flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, overt, evident, conspicuous 2(of income, profit, or interest) without deduction of tax or other contributions; total. （收入、利润或利息）毛的；总的 the gross amount of the gift was $1,000 赠品的总额为1，000英镑。 Often contrasted with net (sense 1 of the adjective) the current rate of interest is about 6.1 percent gross 现在的毛利率约为6.1%. 常与NET 2相对（义项1）。 Example sentencesExamples - Net profit is your gross profit less taxes and interest.
- You can't start deducting such items until they total 2% of adjusted gross income.
- Please specify whether ‘revenues’ is a reference to total income, total turnover, gross profit, net profit or some other measure of income.
- For self-employed applicants, the Department of Education wants to see a full declaration of total gross income.
- Last year's gross revenues amounted to more than $7 million.
- Companies whose deductions exceed gross income for 2001 and 2002 will be allowed to carry the deductions back and re-file taxes for past years.
- After subtracting the general operating costs and the depreciation from the gross profit, we arrive at the operating income.
- That means your loss, combined with all other miscellaneous deductions, must exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income for it to do you any good.
- A non-resident is taxed in Spain on income arising from Spanish property at the rate of 25 per cent on gross income without any deductions for expenses or interest costs.
- Since land-value increment tax is a tax on gains in asset income or value, all the occurring costs and fees are deductible from the gross income.
- The very high rates of interest then lead to a sharp fall in net profits, and interest payments might even exceed the entire gross profit in the case of some branches or regions.
- Figures for income, gross profit, salaries, motor expenses, drawings etc are fed into the Revenue computer system.
- There was evidence of healthy like-for-like growth in both revenues and gross profit.
- The overall effect will be offset by higher insurance thresholds, and a slightly higher base for income taxation as social contributions are deducted from gross income before charging income taxes.
- If a guarantee is received that a room will be rented under the scheme, banks are believed to be willing to add the tax free amount to your gross income prior to deciding your mortgage entitlement.
- The ordinary income rate that you are taxed under is dependent on the amount of adjusted gross income that you receive for the tax year and your filing status.
- This is like the gross profit figure for other companies (except that interest has already been removed since that's an operational activity for banks).
- There was discontent regarding the 54% default level set for British horseracing's share of total gross profits.
- The Cabinet is most likely to stand by its commitments concerning profit tax and gross income tax.
- As a result of these contributions, their 2002 adjusted gross income is $30,000.
Synonyms total, whole, entire, complete, full, overall, comprehensive, aggregate - 2.1 (of weight) including all contents, fittings, wrappings, or other variable items; overall.
（重量）一切包括在内的；总计的；毛的 a projected gross takeoff weight of 500,000 pounds 设计的起飞总重量为500，000磅。 Example sentencesExamples - At gross weight, the B - 2 tipped the scales at 1299 pounds.
- He weighed his reasons on scales that could count not just gross weight but the minuscule grammage of real worth.
- A figure of a gross weight of about 30 tonnes was mentioned.
- All-out gross weight - loaded, gas etc. - would run about 68,847 pounds.
- Once inside the factory grounds, the lorries drive over a weighbridge where their gross weight is automatically measured.
- Was I good enough to take off at a high gross weight, lose an engine, avoid the unseen mountains within a mile and a half of the field while on instruments?
- To relate this to current practice a tractor and trailer combination today with a load of sugar beet or barley would have a gross weight of over 20 tonnes.
- An employer now requires approval from the Director of Inspection with responsibility for mines only when the gross weight of such a machine is over 32,000 kilograms.
- When the jet was stable, we began a wide, right-hand turn toward land and set up an orbit about 20 miles northeast of Oceana to adjust gross weight.
- This whole thing will be run like a classic flight test program of expanding the envelope, but we will always take off at full gross weight.
- Our rule of thumb is that a floor jack needs to be rated for at least three-quarters of a vehicle's gross weight.
- Airplanes can't exceed a gross weight of 1,320 pounds or 1,430 pounds for seaplanes.
- Our three-engine rate of climb would have been extremely limited with the inability to raise gear, high gross weight, and high ambient temperature.
- A no-flap approach was flown with a 220,000 lb gross weight, flying at 198 knots indicated airspeed.
- Because our gross weight was about 40,000 pounds above max-landing gross weight, we continued, gear down, to Colorado Springs.
- She then maneuvered the jet away from populated areas and gained altitude while simultaneously dumping fuel to reduce gross weight for landing.
- This would have permitted much more flexibility in basing since the B-52 is limited by its heavy gross weight and long takeoff ground roll.
- This profile required the crew to make sure the autorotation RPM was within limits based on environmental conditions and aircraft gross weight.
- Liberator crews used the instrument to calculate gross weight and centre of gravity, as well as to examine the effect of the centre of gravity of crew movement, fuel consumption and release of bomb loads.
- My body definitely wouldn't handle 7.5 Gs if I didn't adjust my gross weight before takeoff.
- 2.2 (of a score in golf) as actually played, without taking handicap into account.
（高尔夫球的得分）实际所得的 Example sentencesExamples - Division III took care of players with no official handicap and was awarded to the player with the lowest gross score.
- She broke the ladies' course record, on the Kirkwall golf course, on Tuesday evening, with a gross score of 68.
- A gross score of 66 less their team handicap of 6 produced a net 60.
- Off a combined handicap of 5 they returned a gross score of 68 to produce net a 63.
- Those scores were gross scores off his newly lowered 27 handicap!
3Very rude or coarse; vulgar. the duties we felt called upon to perform toward our inferiors were only gross, material ones 我们觉得自己对地位低的人应尽的义务仅仅是些庸俗和物质方面的事情。 Example sentencesExamples - Matter exists on a gross level, is stable and slow to change.
- I found your gross tongues disgusting in their barbarism, but still I learned them.
- By the influence of the mode of passion, which is related to air, we endeavor to manifest the form on the gross level.
- The former worships the gross material object, while the latter have recourse to imagery.
- Jane was no beauty, always delving into some novel of gross sentimentality, and her conversational skills were disgustingly average.
- A man fallen in the ocean of nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing his outward dress - the gross material body.
- While on a gross level we can distinguish one thing from another, on a refined level no thing is actually find-able.
Synonyms vulgar, coarse, crude, obscene, rude, ribald, lewd, bawdy, dirty, filthy, earthy, smutty, risqué, indecent, indelicate, improper, impure, unseemly, offensive, pornographic boorish, loutish, oafish, thuggish, brutish, bearish, neanderthal, philistine, coarse, uncouth, unsavoury, crass, vulgar, common, unrefined, unsophisticated, uncultured, uncultivated, undiscriminating, tasteless, insensitive, unfeeling, imperceptive, callous - 3.1 Unattractively large or bloated.
粗大的；臃肿的；肥胖的 I feel fat, gross—even my legs feel flabby 我觉得自己又胖又臃肿我甚至觉得腿上的肉都是松弛的。 Example sentencesExamples - At least a third of the people promenading along the seafront were more than just overweight - they were gross, with their swollen bellies leading the way.
Synonyms obese, corpulent, overweight, fat, big, large, outsize, outsized, massive, immense, huge, colossal, fleshy, flabby, portly, bloated, bulky, lumpish - 3.2informal Very unpleasant; repulsive.
〈非正式〉令人讨厌的，使人憎恶的 it's disgusting and gross, but it's a fact Example sentencesExamples - He came back to the table and told Sam that Ms. Shaw thought it was gross and icky.
- So, to all you spitters out there: it's gross, disgusting, unhealthy and classless, and every time you do it you look like a trashy hood rat.
- Blame it on a yucky mix of sweat and gross bacteria.
- No subject is taboo, and there is no subject so gross, so obnoxious, so embarrassing, it cannot be paraded in front of everyone.
- Whilst we gained a sense of Caliban's non-humanness, we lost much sense of him as a gross, repulsive creature.
- And true, he carries at least 108 diseases and is just completely gross and icky and mouse-y.
- Once again, it is not intended that these observations lead to a conclusion that writing for reluctant reader boys must necessarily be gross and disgusting, far from it.
- You're gross, you're disgusting and you don't even know how to dress well.
- This went beyond gross and into seriously disgusting.
- Do you know how sick, gross, and disgusting that is?
- He likes gross, disgusting, and obscene killings.
- That was gross and disgusting and I don't think I want to talk to you anymore.
- I mean, everyone I talk to thinks I'm a nerdy loser or a gross loser or an obnoxious loser.
- Spiders are fundamentally gross and yucky creatures and any messing with their place in the scheme of things will produce something grosser and yuckier still.
- I liked the way they were to each other; it didn't seem gross or disgusting, like what other kids had told me.
- The hospital staff should be more aware of how gross and disgusting it is to see a major hospital not being kept clean.
- The tracks were strewn with trash - gross, disgusting and overwhelming.
Synonyms disgusting, repellent, repulsive, abhorrent, loathsome, detestable, sickening, nauseating, nauseous, stomach-churning, stomach-turning, off-putting, unpalatable, unappetizing, uninviting, unsavoury, distasteful, foul, nasty, obnoxious, odious
4General or large-scale; not fine or detailed. 大范围的；粗略的 at the gross anatomical level 在粗略的解剖学层面上。 Example sentencesExamples - Oh, we have a good idea, on a gross level, of what governments should not do to really screw up the economy.
- Primary homology hypotheses were generated for features of gross morphology, leaf anatomy, and chromosome number.
- Their genomic structure is similar at a gross level, but has yet to be compared comprehensively in detail.
- Making the world better in gross material terms is nothing to sneeze at.
- Obviously, these are gross distinctions, but somehow our brains require some way of distinguishing the Old Order from the New.
- Generally, gross lesions are not observed in the central nervous system of birds affected with Newcastle disease virus regardless of the pathotype.
- There is widespread consensus that an organism's lifestyle is often reflected in the skeleton at various levels ranging from gross morphology to histological structure.
- If infection is suspected, the wound area must be assessed for obvious signs of gross infection, and the infection should be confirmed by culturing the organism.
- In summary, this is an excellent book with extremely useful text, superb gross pictures, and generally very good microscopic pictures.
adverbɡroʊsɡrōs Without tax or other contributions having been deducted. 以毛额计算，未扣除税（或其他费用） Example sentencesExamples - Overall they estimate that carers save the State at least E2 billion gross each year.
verbɡroʊsɡrōs [with object]Produce or earn (an amount of money) as gross profit or income. 获得…总收入（或毛利） the film went on to gross $8 million in the U.S 影片在美国上演获得800万美元总收入。 Example sentencesExamples - It is the highest grossing R-rated film ever, outdistancing the runner up by 15%.
- It would go on to become Fox's highest grossing film of 1948.
- He also informed delegates that the qualifiers had grossed a million less than in the previous year because of falling attendances.
- Which film has grossed more money than any other this year?
- In the United States alone, the title grossed an unprecedented $30 million in sales.
- The movie is grossing $25 million dollars a day.
- Let's say that a worker grosses about $9,000 a year.
- And, in the spirit of its trashy themes, it has grossed its director a fortune.
- The oversized celebrity has been in 30 films since 1970, grossing hundreds of millions of dollars.
- It had enormous success at the box office running for six months in Sydney alone and became one of the three highest grossing Australian documentaries since 2000.
- It was the second highest grossing film in Korea that year, and the highest grossing comedy ever.
- It became the highest grossing film of all time within two months, and every cast member including the dog won Oscars at the Academy Awards.
- For several years, it was the highest grossing film of all time, and that makes a statement worth listening to.
- Since then, the movie has grossed more than 200 million in theatre and video sales.
- This film did of course gross an enormous amount of money worldwide and in America, and also received a pile of Oscar nominations.
- The first two episodes grossed an extraordinary £1.1 billion.
- When's the last time you hear about a poet's latest world tour grossing a million a night?
- Last weekend, four new movies opened and grossed about $61 million between them.
- If healthcare grosses $1.2 trillion in 1999, and fraud represents 10% of that total, that means a tidy sum of $100 billion a year lost to fraudulent claims.
- But who cares what purists or musos think when there's a buck to be grossed?
Synonyms earn, make, bring in, take, get, receive, fetch, draw, collect
nounɡroʊsɡrōs 1An amount equal to twelve dozen; 144. 罗（等于12打）；144个 fifty-five gross of tins of processed milk 55罗经过加工的罐装牛奶。 Example sentencesExamples - That's like giving a kid a gross of bottle rockets and a new Bic lighter, then leaving the boy unsupervised - and being shocked, shocked to hear small explosions in the distance.
- It seems county council might benefit if something suitably heavy (a gross of copies of Chicken Little?) were bounced off the thick heads of its members.
- In the meantime, I have ordered a gross of hatches and a quantity of timber from the catalogue, so I can batten them down and engage in some hardcore shivering on the big day.
- There have been no single straws - more a gross of wire bound bales weighing down and breaking asunder a once optimistic and enthusiastic camel's back.
- Personally, I'm wondering just how much he paid for the gross of grovelling apologies he's been using like there's no tomorrow…
2A gross profit or income. 毛利；总收入 the box-office grosses mounted 票房总收入增长了。 Example sentencesExamples - Chaplin had big box-office grosses, but he made relatively few pictures.
- This is normally a sign that audiences like a film and the film's grosses are going to hold up well in subsequent weeks, so the film's final gross could still be quite good.
- But of all the Oscar nominees it has racked up by far the biggest domestic grosses so far.
- It has been reporting low grosses so it may fade away soon.
- They're so intent on having big first weekend grosses.
- The overall box office grosses for the summer season, which ends today, on Labor Day, is just slightly ahead of last summer's record pace.
- I think one of the problems with film criticism is that we rarely talk about art anymore - we obsess about the grosses, we gossip about the ‘industry,’ we talk about this week's new movie in relation to last week's new movie.
- If you add up the grosses of all these titles and estimate final numbers for this year's already-in-release product, the total should be about the same from last year's 22 to this year's 20.
- Selling out has more to do with ticket grosses than the antimaterialist who stands apart from society.
- Maybe it was at the time when reporting weekend grosses became a feature, and hence a yardstick of a film's importance, in purportedly high-minded papers.
- In less than thirty years, roughly since the premiere of Star Wars, domestic grosses - once the industry's bread and butter - have become a virtual loss leader.
- Film can sometimes seem obsessed with the hype and glory of the latest passing sensation and the opening weekend grosses of the newest blockbuster.
- Now solve it for U.S. grosses, adjusted for inflation.
- Projected grosses are reported during every news show each Sunday night, with ‘real’ numbers arriving 24 hours later.
- But in terms of commercial success, in terms of grosses - I really don't know.
- Broadway's weekly grosses are running ahead of this time last year, and every theater in the city is booked, with more than a dozen new shows opening over the next six months.
- Things were helped by its non-US grosses being much greater than that, but still the studio would have been hard pressed to get its outlay back.
- It reported grosses for 20 weeks after that, most of which was second run, but that accounted for only $7 million of the $176 million domestic take.
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but the two sequels cost about $350M combined, so this assumption is predicated on foreign grosses exceeding domestic.
- It's unfortunate, because while it may lead to big opening grosses, a lot of pictures that are a little different and don't fit so neatly into either a niche market or a high-concept marketing approach can get lost in the shuffle.
PhrasesIn large numbers or amounts. 〈喻〉大量地，大宗地 auto companies are hiring by the gross Example sentencesExamples - Before you start buying chicken breasts by the gross, here are a few things to consider about eating extra protein.
- Still, unrequited love is on sale cheap, by the gross.
- In 1982 I dare say I bought packets of chemical slug pellets by the gross.
Phrasal VerbsDisgust someone, typically with repulsive or obscene behavior or appearance. 〈非正式，主北美〉使作呕，令…恶心 Example sentencesExamples - If certain bodily functions or cockroaches really do gross you out, this study is not for you.
- He told me that his dad is quite comfortable with the handling and filleting of fish so if I ever go fishing, I need to invite his dad along because this grosses me out.
- I did get in the kiss as I promised but it was a very quick chaste kinda one so I can't really say too much, other than I wasn't grossed out or anything so I guess he passes the first test.
- Maybe you used to love your dad's juicy T-bones, but the thought of eating meat grosses you out now.
- No, the fact that you two got married is what grosses me out.
- If you plan on remaining roommates and it's really grossing you out, you have a few options.
- I still haven't been able to make it past the second page of this discussion by nurses about what grosses them out, but I hope to do so someday.
- He is into the tone and not terribly interested in grossing you out.
- However, he shot me a disgusted look, as if he was grossed out or something.
- My sweetie whispered in my ear that it was totally grossing him out and he couldn't eat any.
- The thought of a litter tray in a bathroom just grosses me out.
- I guess the idea is completely grossing him out.
- I figured you were looking for something you could watch with a woman without grossing her out
- Eh, if I didn't know those two were only best friends, I would be grossed out.
- He told me he was grossed out by my chocolate maggot story.
- Let me run through a few examples of what people have had to do (if stuff grosses you out then stop reading).
- If you want to gross him out, get a bowl of tuna salad and hide it under the passenger seat.
- Do not test the hearers’ tolerance by grossing them out with gratuitous obscenities.
- That's okay - I did my best to gross him out by telling him about all the sugar we eat for breakfast here.
- Add a lot of squashed bugs and stuff that grosses you out.
- I didn't think raising meat made much of an impression on her other than to gross her out on butchering day.
- There are people sitting right behind you and you just grossed them out.
- If he's not freaking his classmates out in chemistry class, then he's grossing them out at lunch.
- I have a problem with blood and it just grosses me out badly.
- I classify scaring the public with such a fact as something equivalent to grossing them out as well.
- I still like Robbie an awful lot but he kind of grosses me out at the same time.
- Cronenberg, infamous for exploding heads and such, isn't going to let us go home without grossing us out just a bit.
- It grossed me out at first, but it was commonplace in some cultures, especially tribal ones.
- Previously, all vacuum cleaners have kept the dirt hidden in a bag, with the assumption that it would simply gross you out to see how dirty your house is.
- But for all I was grossed out, I was also engrossed.
Synonyms disgust, revolt, repel, repulse, sicken, nauseate, cause to feel nauseous, make shudder, turn someone's stomach, make someone's gorge rise
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘thick, massive, bulky’): from Old French gros, grosse ‘large’, from late Latin grossus. |