plus
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin plūs (“more”).
Pronunciation
editPreposition
editplus
- And; sum of the previous one and the following one.
- Two plus two equals four.
- A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.
- (colloquial) With; having in addition.
- I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!
Synonyms
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Conjunction
editplus
- And also; in addition; besides (which).
- Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.
Noun
editplus (plural pluses or plusses)
- A positive quantity.
- 2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 57:
- But the pluses far outweigh the criticisms.
- An asset or useful addition.
- He is a real plus to the team.
- (arithmetic) A plus sign: +.
- Abbreviation of LGBT+
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
editAntonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “useful addition”): liability, minus
- (antonym(s) of “arithmetic: plus sign”): minus, minus sign
Translations
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Adjective
editplus (not comparable)
- Being positive rather than negative or zero.
- −2 * −2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")
- Positive, or involving advantage.
- He is a plus factor.
- (physics) Electrically positive.
- A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.
- (postpositive, somewhat informal) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
- The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.
- (postpostitive, informal) And more.
- 1985 August 10, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 13:
- Have you been to Brazil, Bhutan, or Botswana? Well, I haven't and I'm reday [sic] to go ― almost anywhere interesting actually. Warm, wise world traveler seeks equally exciting, self-sufficient soul for adventures plus.
Synonyms
edit- (being positive rather than negative or zero): positive
- (positive, involving advantage): advantageous, good, positive
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “being positive rather than negative or zero”): minus, negative
- (antonym(s) of “positive, involving advantage”): bad, disadvantageous, minus, negative
Translations
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Verb
editplus (third-person singular simple present pluses or plusses, present participle plusing or plussing, simple past and past participle plused or plussed)
- (informal) To add; to subject to addition.
- 1973, Australian Council for Educational Research, ACER research series - Issues 93-95, page 39:
- For him y is a unique number, like 7, but for the time being unknown — if one does the operation of 'plussing 4' one still has, as a result, a unique number even though one does not yet know what it is.
- 1974, Control of Human Behavior: Behavior modification in education:
- The teacher observing the behavior of a child who is plussing or not-plussing is observing instances or not-instances of the concept of plussing.
- (often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.
- 2006, Danny Fingeroth, Mike Manley, How to Create Comics: From Script to Print, →ISBN, page 48:
- I am doing a lot of writing here, plussing the script, adding sequences.
- 2009, United States Congress House Committee on Homeland Security, The Direction and Viability of the Federal Protective Service:
- We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we are plussing up deputy positions.
- 2012, United States Congress House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Military Retirement Reform, page 24:
- And I believe that, if we can't recognize that in retirement, we ought to recognize it in plussing up hazardous duty pay, plussing up sea duty pay and all those other things that recognize people that don't punch out on Saturday, on Friday afternoon and go home, and just, you know, go day after day after day.
- To improve.
- 1998, Nate Booth, Strategies for Fast-Changing Times, →ISBN, page 91:
- Coach Wooden didn't have to depend upon having the most talented players on his team because he could depend upon plussing to constantly make everyone better.
- 2007, Howard Hendricks, Color Outside the Lines, →ISBN, page 123:
- Keep fooling around with it, improving it, and making it better. You know you have a unique factor when someone steals it. So keep the unique factor unique by constantly plussing it.
- 2004, Pat Williams, Jim Denney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, →ISBN, page 154:
- He was a pioneer in plussing the artform of animated cartoons. He began by plussing Micky Mouse with sound, the plussing the Silly Symphonies with color. Walt plussed the skills of his artists by sending them to art school at his own expense.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- 2013, David Burkus, The Myths of Creativity, →ISBN:
- The animators and directors on the receiving end of the plussing don't necessarily have to accept and incorporate the feedback, but plussing provides a method to share criticisms in a way that makes it more likely that they will.
- 2014, Steven Krupp, Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future, →ISBN:
- Strategic leaders can adapt the US Army's after-action review and Pixar's plussing technique (where you build on ideas rather than critique and subtract) to show their teams how to learn from mistakes.
- 2014, BusinessNews Publishing, Summary : Little Bets - Peter Sims, →ISBN:
- When people view the early drafts of ideas for their movies under development, they always use plussing to try and come up with suggestions for enhancements. Feedback is always given in an upbeat rather than a derogatory manner.
- (sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
- 1920, The Current Business Cyclopedia: Business Digest:
- Good will is also secured by plussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it.
- 1986, Max Fallek, How to Set Up and Operate Your Own Law Practice:
- Plussing the original sale creates a win-win situation. The customer benefits because it often saves him the time necessary to run back to the store for overlooked items.
- (psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- 1979, Douglas A. Puryear, Helping People in Crisis, page 87:
- Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem.
- 1997, Bernard L. Bloom, Planned short-term psychotherapy: a clinical handbook, page 187:
- In addition to active listening as a general therapeutic strategy, Puryear identifies two specific techniques, plussing and paradox, that are used throughout the crisis intervention.
- 2015, Kenneth France, Crisis Intervention, →ISBN, page 177:
- When plussing, the intervenor introduces novel viewpoints that can increase the self-esteem of both the attacker and the target.
- (social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.
- Coordinate term: like
- 2012, Lee Odden, Optimize, →ISBN, page 111:
- How do you get others to add you or your brand to their circles? By creating and sharing useful content, commenting, plussing others' content and comments, and engaging with others on Google+.
- 2014, Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc., →ISBN, page 279:
- Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.
- (homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- 2005, B. Sahni, Transmission of Homoeo Drug Energy from Distance, →ISBN, page 188:
- On hearing this, plussing was done (all medicated water of the phial was thrown away and fresh distilled was added and 10 strokes were given) on the 13th February 1974.
- 2007, Kate Birch, Vaccine Free Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Contagious Disease with Homeopathy, →ISBN:
- From the remaining water a second dilution can be prepared plussing it to the next slightly higher potency.
- 2011, Kim Lane, Homeopathy for Home: Acute Illness & Injury Care, →ISBN, page 29:
- Plussing is used quite frequently in a patient who's quite sensitive or has an acute problem happening or needs to change his dose or need to take it over several days.
- (optometry) To increase a correction.
- 1976, David M. Worthen, Perry S. Binder, The intraocular lens in perspective, →ISBN, page 2:
- No aspheric cataract spectacle lens designer has ever given the slightest thought to this 4 to 6 diopters of over-plussing for peripheral vision which is responsible for tremendous peripheral distortion, worse peripheral swim, worse false orientation, worse magnification, severe concave curvature of field ("The floor comes up at you"), increased ring scotoma size and increase jack-in-the-box phenomenon (the "horse-blinder effect") with unsafe walking and driving.
Derived terms
edit- 11-plus examination
- A plus
- check plus
- comedy equals tragedy plus time
- confirm plus chop
- cost plus
- double-plus-good
- double-plus-ungood
- eleven plus
- eleven-plus
- Kleene plus
- minus-plus sign
- mostly plus
- ne plus ultra
- new game plus
- non-plus
- Norway-plus
- on-base plus slugging
- on the plus side
- Parkinson-plus syndrome
- pi-plus
- pi plus
- plus factor
- plus fours
- plus mark
- plus-minus method
- plus-minus sign
- plus-one
- plus one
- plus or minus
- plus sign
- plus size
- plus-size
- plus-sized
- rien ne va plus
- sex-plus
- two plus two equals five
See also
editAnagrams
editCzech
editPronunciation
editConjunction
editplus
Noun
editplus m inan or n
Declension
editwhen masculine:
Indeclinable when neuter.
Related terms
editFurther reading
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin plūs (“more”).
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editplus
Noun
editplus m (plural plussen, diminutive plusje n)
Esperanto
editEtymology
editUltimately from Latin plūs (“more”). Doublet of pli and plu.
Pronunciation
editPreposition
editplus
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editConjunction
editplus
Adjective
editplus (not inflected)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “plus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old French plus, from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ply/ in its positive sense if followed by an adjective or an adverb not beginning with a vowel, and always in its negative sense (e.g. il est plus grand que moi, or je n'en peux plus)
- IPA(key): /plyz‿/ in the case of a liaison, i.e. if followed by an adjective or an adverb beginning with a vowel (e.g. tu dois être plus ambitieux)
- IPA(key): /plys/ in its positive sense, when not followed by an adjective or an adverb (e.g. j'en ai plus que toi or avancez un peu plus, s'il vous plait)
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /py/ in its negative sense.
Audio; “en plus”: (file)
Adverb
editplus
- more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)
- Ton voisin est plus moche que mon frère. ― Your neighbour is uglier than my brother.
- Le tien est beaucoup plus grand que le mien. ― Yours is much bigger than mine.
- Elle est plus belle que sa cousine. ― She is more beautiful than her cousin.
- Elles sont toutes plus entêtées les unes que les autres. ― They are each more stubborn than the last.
- more, -er (used to form comparatives of adverbs)
- Elle le fait plus rapidement que lui. ― She does it more quickly than he does.
- plus vite ! ― faster!
- (after a verb) more, -er (indicating a higher degree or quantity)
- Je travaille plus en ce moment. ― I am working more at the moment.
- Je veux faire plus. ― I want to do more.
- more (indicating a greater quantity) [with de]
- Elle a plus de chocolat. ― She has more chocolate.
- Plus de la moitié reste. ― More than half is left.
- more (supplementary, preceded by de)
- Une heure de plus et il serait mort. ― One more hour and he would be dead.
- Un kilo de plus, s’il vous plaît. ― One more kilo, please.
- (preceded by a definite article) the most, -est (used to form superlatives of adjectives and adverbs)
- la plus grande ― the biggest
- le plus difficile ― the most difficult
- (usually with the negative particle ne, see usage notes below) no longer, not ... any more
- Tu n’existes plus. ― You no longer exist. / You don't exist any more.
- Il n’y a plus de travail. ― There is no more work.
- (elliptically, introducing each clause) the more ..., the more ...
- Plus je vois, plus je veux.
- The more I see, the more I want.
- (similarly, used with other comparatives) the more ..., the ...
- Plus j’écoute, moins je comprends.
- The more I listen, the less I understand.
Usage notes
edit- There may be some difficulty for non-native speakers to detect the negativity or positivity of "plus". The negative sense is generally used with a ne, but the "ne" is sometimes elided or even dropped in colloquial speech. Thus in certain cases, some speakers may choose to pronounce the final /s/ of a positive plus (as /plys/) in order to make a distinction.
Derived terms
editNoun
editplus m (plural plus)
- plus, the symbol +
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editplus
- first/second-person singular past historic of plaire
Participle
editplus m pl
Usage notes
edit- In modern French, the past participle of plaire is always invariable, because it is always intransitive.
Further reading
edit- “plus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Adverb
editplus
See also
editInterlingua
editAdverb
editplus (not comparable)
- more (used to form comparatives)
le plus
Antonyms
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom Old Latin plous, from Proto-Italic *plēōs (after being levelled in favour of the neuter *plowis), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”), Old English feolo (“much, many”). More at fele.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pluːs/, [pɫ̪uːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /plus/, [plus]
Adjective
editplūs (neuter plūs); third declension
- comparative degree of multus
- (more in quantity) more, additionally
- Synonym: magis (magis indicates more in degree)
- (more in extent) further
- Plus ultra! = "Further beyond!" (this is the national motto of Spain)
- (more in quantity) more, additionally
Declension
editIrregular third-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | — | plūs | plūrēs | plūra | |
Genitive | plūris | plūrium | |||
Dative | — | plūribus | |||
Accusative | — | plūs | plūrēs | plūra | |
Ablative | plūre | plūribus | |||
Vocative | plūs | plūrēs | plūra |
Note: Singular forms take the genitive of the whole and do not function as adjectives.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
See also
editReferences
edit- “plus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “plus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- plus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- plus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- twenty years and more: viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
- one, two, several days had passed, intervened: dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant
- to expend great labour on a thing: egregiam operam (multum, plus etc. operae) dare alicui rei
- to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines: plura in eam sententiam disputare
- to give a full, detailed account of a thing: pluribus verbis, copiosius explicare, persequi aliquid
- to possess great political insight: plus in re publica videre
- to say nothing further on..: ut plura non dicam
- in short; to be brief: ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
- more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
- twenty years and more: viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
Old French
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Descendants
editOld Occitan
editEtymology
editAdverb
editplus
- more
- 12th century,. Bernard de Ventadour, Lancan folhon bosc e jarric
- ome de me no vei plus ric
- I do not see a richer [more rich] than me
- 12th century,. Bernard de Ventadour, Lancan folhon bosc e jarric
Descendants
editPolish
editPronunciation
editNoun
editplus m inan
Declension
editFurther reading
editRomanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin plūs. First attested in the early 19th century, acquiring non-mathematical senses by the middle of that century.
Pronunciation
editConjunction
editplus
Noun
editplus n (plural plusuri)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- plus in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
- Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1977), Dicționarul Limbii Române[4], volume 8, part 3, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 875
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin plūs (“more”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editplus m (plural pluses)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “plus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
editConjunction
editplus
- (mathematics) and, plus
Noun
editplus n
- plus sign
- benefit, advantage
Declension
editnominative | genitive | ||
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singular | indefinite | plus | plus |
definite | plusset | plussets | |
plural | indefinite | plus | plus |
definite | plussen | plussens |
Derived terms
edit- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₁-
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ʌs
- Rhymes:English/ʌs/1 syllable
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- English terms with usage examples
- English colloquialisms
- English conjunctions
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Arithmetic
- English abbreviations
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- en:Physics
- English informal terms
- English verbs
- en:Psychology
- en:Social media
- English dated terms
- en:Homeopathy
- en:Symbols
- English adjectives commonly used as postmodifiers
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech conjunctions
- Czech terms with usage examples
- Czech nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- Czech neuter nouns
- Czech nouns with multiple genders
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech indeclinable nouns
- cs:Arithmetic
- Dutch terms borrowed from Latin
- Dutch terms derived from Latin
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ʏs
- Rhymes:Dutch/ʏs/1 syllable
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch conjunctions
- nl:Arithmetic
- Dutch terms with usage examples
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -en
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Esperanto terms derived from Latin
- Esperanto doublets
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto prepositions
- Esperanto terms with usage examples
- Words approved by the Akademio de Esperanto
- Esperanto 8OA
- eo:Arithmetic
- Finnish terms derived from Latin
- Finnish 1-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/us
- Rhymes:Finnish/us/1 syllable
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish conjunctions
- Finnish adjectives
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms inherited from Old Latin
- French terms derived from Old Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French adverbs
- French terms with usage examples
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French non-lemma forms
- French verb forms
- French past participle forms
- French terms with obsolete senses
- French contranyms
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German adverbs
- German terms with usage examples
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua adverbs
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pelh₁-
- Latin terms derived from Old Latin
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin 1-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin comparative adjectives
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French adverbs
- Old Occitan terms inherited from Latin
- Old Occitan terms derived from Latin
- Old Occitan lemmas
- Old Occitan adverbs
- Old Occitan terms with quotations
- Polish 1-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/us
- Rhymes:Polish/us/1 syllable
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- Romanian terms borrowed from Latin
- Romanian terms derived from Latin
- Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Romanian/us
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- Romanian lemmas
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- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns
- ro:Symbols
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
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- Spanish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/us
- Rhymes:Spanish/us/1 syllable
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
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- sv:Mathematics
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns