Thursday Thirteen - Gross
The theme for this week’s Thursday Thirteen is Gross - that’s because it’s T13#144 and 144 is apparently a gross. I didn’t know that!
Gross seems to have many meanings so my Thursday Thirteen is the many meanings of gross!
- Twelve dozen (i.e. 144)
- “The amount before any deductions” e.g. gross income as opposed to net income which is the amount you actually end up with!
- “Megascopic” - which means visible to the naked eye and is used mainly in reference to rocks and anatomical features. I guess this is the opposite of microscopic.
- “Lacking fine distinctions or detail” - so maybe you could take this to mean “a bit vague”?
- “Repellently fat” - hmm not very nice that one
- “Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible” e.g gross ineptitude, gross injustice, gross negligence
- “Conspicuously and tastelessly indecent” - e.g. gross-out TV shows
- A television show aired on childrens channel Discovery Channel (apparently … but I can’t find any info about it - there is however a programme on there called “Grossology“)
- In Golf: “the actual number of strokes a player has taken before his handicap is deducted”
- “The weight of the goods including packing, wrappers, or containers, both internal and external. The total weight as shipped.” - I remember seeing this use of gross when my Dad used to work for a haulage company years ago.
- A slang term meaning “disgusting” or “grotesque”
- A village in Nebraska - apparently a very tiny village - only 5 people lived there in 2000 according to the census - see info in wikipedia
- I can’t find a thirteenth definition!!!
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May 15th, 2008 at 5:00 am
Congratulations on being the winners of last week’s “Gross” competition…
WAY to go!!!