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Definition: GROS |
GROSNoun1. A heavy silk with a dull finish; as, gros de Naples; gros de Tours. |
Date "GROS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Gros \Gros\, noun. [French expression See Gross.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
GROS | English | Goods received online system | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: GROS |
| English words defined with "GROS": gros point, Gros Ventre. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GROS": Bontemps ♦ Chingachgook ♦ gros de Tours ♦ Jacques, Joncs, Juge de Paix. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GROS": grocer. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GROS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Catalan (bold, corpulent, fat, thick), Dutch (majority), French (big, bold, boor, bulk, bulky, chubby, churl, coarse, colossus, corpulent, fat, fat man, full, great, heavy, hefty, heroic, husky, large, rich man, smart, stout, strong, thick, wholesale business), German (bulk, greater part, gross, majority), Indonesian (gross, large), Romanian (abundantly, big, blubber, bulk, bulky, coarse, compact, densely, gross, highly, podgy, quod, stiff, stout, thick, voluminous), Scottish (snout). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Q (Le gros lot) (1974) Sex en gros (1970) Les Gros malins (1968) Un coeur gros comme ça (1962) Písnicka za gros (1952) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | ARS lab technician Debra Williams and Kennedy high school student Sean Gros label cotton bolls for identification. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | John F. Kennedy High School students Christopher Thompson, Angela Archer, and Sean Gros use a rotary evaporator to concentrate a bacterial culture in an Agricultural Research Service Laboratory in New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: USDA ARS News. |
 | Frederick Le Gros Clark, F.R.S. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Le Gros Lot ou les Étrennes imprevues. / [Achille L. Martinet]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Le général Bonaparte visite les pestiférés de Jaffa : [Epidemics] / Peint par Gros Grave par Masson. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Le Médecin oculiste. : -Je vous recommande les gros numéros. / par Abel Faivre. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Underway in August 1950, possibly while en route to join the Seventh Fleet for Korean War combat operations. Photographed by Ph1 Hugh Le Gros, USN. Credit: NAVY. |  | Gros Cap, St. Ignace, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Worker Rights | Haiti | The CATH stated that on April 9, a group of men allied with the FL surrounded CATH members who were meeting to discuss regional issues in the Gros Morne commune. (references) |
Haiti | Ten members of the Federation of Agricultural Workers of Gros Morne and the Democratic Association of Haitian Women Workers, 8 of whom are women, have been in hiding since the incident. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "GROS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "GROS" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (plural) | 20% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GROS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gros | Last name | 1,000 | 10,351 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "GROS": gros de Tours ♦ gros point ♦ Gros Ventre. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GROS": gros-point. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gros seins | 830 | gros seins tres | 17 |
bureau en gros | 374 | gros plan | 16 |
gros sein | 95 | et gros minet titi | 16 |
gros morne | 91 | gros ventre | 15 |
gros nichons | 80 | culs gros | 15 |
gros | 74 | gros photo sein | 13 |
gros morne national park | 69 | gros morne park | 13 |
gratuit gros seins | 54 | gros vagin | 12 |
gros penis | 48 | de gros photo seins | 12 |
cul gros | 47 | en gros meuble | 12 |
gros clitoris | 33 | gros seins ultra | 11 |
gros nichon | 31 | beaux gros seins | 11 |
gros naturels seins | 31 | bill gros | 11 |
gros photo seins | 29 | clito gros | 9 |
gros pénis | 28 | gratuit gros sein | 8 |
en gros meubles | 22 | gros nibards | 8 |
gros tetons | 20 | campground gros ventre | 8 |
gratuits gros seins | 20 | gros nus seins tres | 8 |
sexe gros seins | 19 | gros pnis | 7 |
gros sexe | 18 | gros teton | 7 |
gros lolo | 7 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "GROS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | gros point (gros point). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | grote kruissteek (gros point). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | gros point (gros point), gros de Tours (gros de Tours). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Gros Point (gros point). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | χονδρή βελονιά (gros point). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | punto grosso (gros point). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | osgray punto grueso (gros point). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GROS": grosbeak, grosbeaks, groschen, grosgrain, grosgrains, gross, grossed, grosser, grossers, grosses, grossest, grossing, grossly, grossness, grossnesses, grossular, grossularite, grossularites, grossulars, grosz, grosze, groszy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "GROS": aggros, allegros. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GROS": engross, engrossed, engrosser, engrossers, engrosses, engrossing, engrossingly, engrossment, engrossments, hygroscopic, hygroscopicities, hygroscopicity, nigrosin, nigrosins, nonhygroscopic, outgross, outgrossed, outgrosses, outgrossing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: gor, gos, ors. | |
-2 letters: go, or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: frogs, giros, goers, gores, gorps, gorse, gorsy, grogs, gross, grosz, grots, grows, gyros, ogres, progs, sorgo. | |
+2 letters: aggros, agoras, algors, argols, argons, argosy, argots, bourgs, cargos, corgis, ergots, erugos, forges, gators, genros, girons, gofers, goners, gorals, gorges, gorses, gourds, gregos, griots, grison, groans, groats, groins, grooms, gropes, grosze, groszy, groups, grouse, grouts, groves, growls, guiros, gyrons, gyrose, largos, oglers, ogress, ogrish, ogrism, orangs, organs, orgasm, orgies, pargos, prongs, rigors, rogers, rogues, rosing, rouges, roughs, rugosa, rugose, rugous, sarong, signor, sorgho, sorgos, soring, strong, trigos, vigors, wrongs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 4F 53 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. --- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01001111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R O S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 004F 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41524953 |
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Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, "ול "י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란", Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน"์, รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b xã", for Dutch; Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, فرنسي, اللغة الفرنسية, الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, "랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransız, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький, Ffrengig, isiFulentshi, for French; Duits, Duitser, Duitse taal, Germaan, gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, المانية, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, роден, германски, немски език, немски, немец, готически, германец, 德語 , 德语, 德文 , 德國 , nìmecký, nìmec, tysker, Duitse, týskur, týskt, týskari, saksalainen, Allemand, Dútsk, Deutsche, Deutsch, "ερμανός, gjermanisht, 'רמ י, 'רמ ית, német, þjóðverji, þýskur, GearmÚnach, GearmÚinis, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, todesch, Germaanagh, Garmane, Germaanish, Carmane, aleman, Niemiec, niemiecki, alemão, alemand, neamţ, немецкий, Siamani, germanski, alemán, Tudesku, Doysri, mjeremani, mdachi, sí-Jalimáne, tysk, เยอรมัน, าษาเยอรมัน, Alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr, isiJalimane, iliJalimane, iJalimane, for German; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; Italianer, Italiaans, Italiaan, شخص إيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, الإيطالي, إيطالي, Italianu, италиански език, италиански, италианец, Italyano, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italština, italský, ital, italiener, italienskt, italialainen, Italien, Italjaansk, italienisch, Ιταλός, italisht, איטלקי, איטלקית, olasz, Ítali, IodÚilis, italiano, 이탈리아, Iddaalish, Włoch, italianã, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, итальянский язык, итальянский, итальянец, Italia, italijanski, italijanski jezik, italijan, sí-Taliyáne, italienare, italiensk, italienska, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, ชาวอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка, for Italian; Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish; 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