plus
And also; in addition; besides (which).
Adjective
- 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.
- Electrically positive.
- A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.
- Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
- The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.
- And more.
- 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...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *pléh₁yōs Proto-Italic *plēōs Old Latin plousder. Latin plūsbor. English plus Borrowed from Latin plūs (“more”).
Synonyms
being positive rather than negative zero advantageous good positive
Antonyms
Conjunction
- And also; in addition; besides (which).
- Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.
Noun
- A positive quantity.
- But the pluses far outweigh the criticisms. - 2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 57:
- An asset or useful addition.
- He is a real plus to the team.
- Look at Trife. He's got two felonies. That means he's finished in society. But he can rap. His two felonies, in rap, man, that's a plus. - 2000 July 6, N. R. Kleinfield, quoting Dog, “Guarding the Borders Of the Hip-Hop...
- When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of...
- A plus sign: +.
- Abbreviation of LGBT+
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Preposition
- 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.
- With; having in addition.
- I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!
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Verb
- To add; to subject to addition.
- 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. - 1973,...
- 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. - 1974, Control of Human Behavior: Behavior modification in education:
- To increase in magnitude.
- I am doing a lot of writing here, plussing the script, adding sequences. - 2006, Danny Fingeroth, Mike Manley, How to Create Comics: From Script to Print, →ISBN, page 48:
- We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we are plussing up deputy positions. - 2009, United States Congress House Committee on Homeland Security, The Direction and Viability of the Federal Protective...
- 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...
- To improve.
- 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. - 1998, Nate Booth, Strategies for Fast-Changing Times,...
- 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. - 2007, Howard Hendricks, Color...
- 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...
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- 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...
- 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, Steven...
- 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...
- To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
- Good will is also secured by plussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it. - 1920, The Current Business Cyclopedia: Business Digest:
- 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. - 1986, Max Fallek, How to Set Up and Operate...
- To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem. - 1979, Douglas A. Puryear, Helping People in Crisis, page 87:
- 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. - 1997, Bernard L. Bloom, Planned...
- When plussing, the intervenor introduces novel viewpoints that can increase the self-esteem of both the attacker and the target. - 2015, Kenneth France, Crisis Intervention, →ISBN, page 177:
- To give a mark of approval on Google+.
- 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+. - 2012, Lee Odden,...
- Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral. - 2014, Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc., →ISBN, page 279:
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- To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- 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. - 2005, B. Sahni, Transmission of Homoeo Drug...
- From the remaining water a second dilution can be prepared plussing it to the next slightly higher potency. - 2007, Kate Birch, Vaccine Free Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Contagious Disease with Homeopathy,...
- 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. - 2011, Kim Lane, Homeopathy for Home: Acute...
- To increase a correction.
- 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...
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