Difference between Gross and Whole

What is the difference between Gross and Whole?

Gross as a verb is to earn money, not including expenses. while Whole as a verb is in entirety; entirely; wholly

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: Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

Whole

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: in entirety; entirely; wholly

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: entire.sound, uninjured, healthy.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something complete, without any parts missing.An entirety.

Example sentence: There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

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

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