Plus
[plʌs]
Definition
(adj.) involving advantage or good; 'a plus (or positive) factor' .
(adj.) on the positive side or higher end of a scale; 'a plus value'; 'temperature of plus 5 degrees'; 'a grade of C plus' .
Typed by Hannah--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.
(a.) Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
Edited by Bernice
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [L.] More, in addition.
Checker: Wendy
Definition
adj. more: to be added: positive.—n. the sign (+) prefixed to positive quantities and set between quantities or numbers to be added together: the sign of addition—opp. to Minus.
Typist: Richard
Examples
- Something more solid and homely she would have considered beaucoup plus convenable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- H e spoke of one as plus and the other as minus. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The height of the leveling strips, plus the height of the bed, lift its surface about six inches from the foundation floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Plus the other, Eladio. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- All their training plus all their natural ossification of mind is hostile to invention. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Plus Pablo gone with one horse makes ten. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For the girls, he felt all the contempt due to those who voted plus _x_ minus _y_ a dead bore. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Ni les élèves ni les parents ne regardent plus loin; ni, par conséquent, moi non plus. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He also made the grand discovery of a _plus_ and _minus_, or of a _positive_ and _negative_ state of electricity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Les EXPERIENCES sur les animaux sauvages devenus domestiques, et sur les animaux domestiques redevenus sauvages, la demontrent plus clairment encore. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Pas plus que sur ma main, responded the doctor, showing his palm. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Aussi vous ne jeterez plus un seul coup d'oeil de sa c?té. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Milord Villainton, ne veut rien faire, pour moi, non plus. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Sortez, sortez, au plus vite. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yorke, ce mot, ami, m'irrite trop; ne m'en parlez plus. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Patricia