Difference between Gross and Consummate

What is the difference between Gross and Consummate?

Gross as a verb is to earn money, not including expenses. while Consummate as a verb is to bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

Gross

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To earn money, not including expenses.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Disgusting. Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure. Great, large, palpable, bulky, or fat. Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful the whole amount; entire; total before any deductions. Dull.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A unit of amount = twelve dozen = 144 pcs. 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.

Example sentence: There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Consummate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.highly skilled and experienced, fully qualified

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touchTo make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.To become perfected, receive the finishing touch

Example sentence: I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

We hope you now know whether to use Gross or Consummate in your sentence.

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