(superl.) Whole; entire; total; without deduction; as, the gross sum, or gross amount, the gross weight; -- opposed to net.
(a.) The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
(sing. & pl.) The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve; as, a gross of bottles; ten gross of pens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gross brain atrophy was slight and equal in both groups.
(2) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(3) Gross mortgage lending stood at £7.9bn in April compared with £8.7bn in March and a six-month average of £9.9bn.
(4) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(5) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(6) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.
(7) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
(8) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(9) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
(10) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(11) The loss of muscarinic and the sparing of benzodiazepine receptors occurs in the temporal cortex of histologically normal brains in the absence of significant atrophy and of gross dementia.
(12) Affected individuals were not clinically photosensitive, but their fibroblasts demonstrated gross cytopathic changes, low survival indices and an increased frequency of DNA single strand breaks following exposure to long-wave ultraviolet radiation (UVA).
(13) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
(14) A tumor measuring 20 x 25 mm was recognized upon gross examination in the upper lobe of the right lung.
(15) No gross toxicological effects were noted in the experimental fish, although their weight gain was less than that of the controls.
(16) Currently, entitlement to CTC for families with one to three children is fully exhausted when gross household earnings reach about £26,000 and £40,000 a year respectively.
(17) There were no differences in the distribution of gross and histological types of cancer in the modes of recurrence.
(18) The pigeon's metapatagialis muscle consists of three slips, two twitch and one tonic, and these slips are distinguishable at the gross anatomical level.
(19) These findings were confirmed by examination of the experimental cases on the basis of the gross diameter of the warts.
(20) Gross examination suggested that TD was present in 80 per cent, 79 per cent and 27 per cent of tibiotarsi from birds on diets 1, 2 and 4, respectively.
Tare
Definition:
(imp.) Tore.
(n.) A weed that grows among wheat and other grain; -- alleged by modern naturalists to be the Lolium temulentum, or darnel.
(n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder.
(n.) Deficientcy in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag, or whatever contains the commodity, and is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, bag, etc.
(v. t.) To ascertain or mark the tare of (goods).
() of Tear
Example Sentences:
(1) If you’re growing them in the vegetable garden, it’s worth remembering this, and following with something replenishing – field beans or winter tares – to put nitrogen and organic matter back into the soil.
(2) To obtain a preselected tension, a limit value switch and a tare unit is used.
(3) In this study, it is shown how to transfer tared aliquots of (HCO3 + CO2)-containing luminal fluids directly into the mercury-sealed chamber of a modified Van Slyke apparatus and how to obtain direct as well as indirect manometric determinations of dissolved CO2 ([CO2]f) in each aliquot of such fluids.
(4) One TIGF sample, which was collected on a previously tared filter, was subjected to controlled environment equilibration (40 percent relative humidity, 22 degrees C) for 8 to 24 h and weighed prior to cryogenic storage.
(5) The effusate was collected in a tared beaker and serial weights were measured every ten seconds using a computerized, gravimetric technique.
(6) When an E. coli chemotransducer gene (tarE), the product of which is required for both aspartate and maltose chemotaxis, was introduced by using a plasmid vector into S. typhimurium cells with a defect in the corresponding gene (tarS), the transformant cells acquired the ability for both aspartate and maltose chemotaxis.
(7) Tare Dadiowei from Gbarain community in Bayelsa State, said: "While Shell makes cheap excuses for the continuing flaring of gas in our communities, we bear the huge costs with our contaminated air and soil, diseases and death."
(8) Each strip was placed into a tared tube containing fluid appropriate for the optimal preservation of the mediator to be measured.
(9) The story charts the relationship between a reclusive fashion designer, Celestine, an apprentice, Jonni Tare, and their favourite model, Doll.
(10) The tared filter paper and charcoal was dried for 24 h and weighed.
(11) Boukari Tare, a Unicef sanitation specialist in the DRC, said the $100m that could be awarded to the fund would save the lives of 200,000 children.
(12) In contrast, when the tars gene was introduced into tarE-deficient E. coli cells, the transformant cells acquired aspartate chemotaxis but not maltose chemotaxis.
(13) Reference sample was obtained by carotid artery blood "free flowing" into a tared microfuge tube for 1 min.
(14) In 3828 subjects (1489 males and 2339 females) apparently healthy was investigated the presence in the serum of Australia antigen and of corrispondent antibody with electrosyneresis, the activity of the G6PD eritrocytic and the eventual condition of carrier of microcytemic tare.
(15) These cells were compared with each other and with wild-type E. coli (containing the wild-type E. coli aspartate receptor gene, wt-tare).
(16) Tare and zero-adjustment were frequently checked in many facilities, but horizontal-adjustment was not checked in about a half of the facilities.
(17) Upon return, the computer compares the difference in initial and return tare weights to the stated amount of drug used to assure accuracy of the written inventory record.