Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Greater: often indicating comparison merely, not absolutely but relatively greater.
- In number, especially as comparative of many.
- In degree or intensity, especially as comparative of much or as exceeding a small or smaller quantity.
- In rank, position, or dignity: opposed to less.
- Greater in amount, extent, number, or degree: the following noun being in effect a partitive genitive: as, more land; more light; more money; more courage.
- In addition; additional: the adjective being before or after the noun, or in the predicate.
- noun A greater quantity, amount, or number.
- noun Something superior or further or in addition: corresponding to I., 2, with partitive genitive merged.
- noun Persons of rank; the great.
- In a greater extent, quantity, or degree.
- [In this sense more is regularly used to modify an adjective or adverb and form a comparative phrase, having the same force and effect as the comparative degree made by the termination -er: as, more wise (wiser), more wisely; more illustrious, more illustriously; more contemptible; more durable. It may be used before any adjective or adverb which admits of comparison, and is generally used with words of more than two syllables, in which the use of the suffix -er would be awkward: as, more curious, more eminent, etc.; formations like curiouser, virtuouser, etc., being avoided, though occasionally used in older writers. Formerly
more was very often used superfluously in the comparative: as, more better, braver, fitter, mightier, etc.] - Further; to a greater distance.
- In addition; besides; again: qualified by such words as any, no, ever, never, once, twice, etc., the two being in some cases also written together as one, as evermore, nevermore, and formerly
nomore . - Besides; indeed.
- To make more; increase; enhance.
- noun A root; stock.
- noun A plant.
- To root up.
- noun An obsolete form of
moor . - noun A hill.
- noun A mulberry-tree, Morus nigra.
- noun Delay.
- noun A formative of comparison, indicating the comparative degree.
- noun See -mor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A hill.
- noun obsolete A root.
- noun A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
- noun That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.
- noun Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time.
- noun not anything more; nothing in addition.
- noun [Obs.] the high and low.
- Greater; superior; increased
- Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.
- Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.
- Additional; other.
- transitive verb obsolete To make more; to increase.
- adverb In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.
- adverb With a verb or participle.
- adverb With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix
-er ) to form the comparative degree. - adverb In addition; further; besides; again.
- adverb with continual increase.
- adverb to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified.
- adverb by how much more -- by so much more.
- adverb to have ceased to be.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- determiner Comparative form of
many : in greaternumber . (Used for adiscrete quantity.) - determiner Comparative form of
much : in greaterquantity ,amount , orproportion . (Used for acontinuous quantity.) - noun An increased amount or quantity.
- noun obsolete a
carrot ; aparsnip . - noun dialectal a
root ;stock . - noun A
plant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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• More carbon footprints: nuclear war, cycling a mile, more• Understand more about carbon footprints
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The Calvin & Hobbes futurefic "Every Day is a Reminder" got more than a thousand fewer hits than "They Come in Threes" and over a third *more* comments.
yuletide 2009: hit counts, comments, and predictions for 2010 hradzka 2010
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There you'll be, a furious collection of primordial organelles focused like a coherent light machine on the hyperholistic sublimity of 'appliance' as a signifier of more than simply an instance of a particular hardware configuration, but as an aggregation of physical nature with the abstraction of 'applicabilty,' more than just a word, but a magickal spell that conjures technology out of ecology.
Whole Day Off 2010
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• More carbon footprints: nuclear war, a cappuccino, more• Understand more about carbon footprints
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• Republic manager says Gibson must play more to grow more• 'To what club could I go to improve my game?' says midfielder
Darron Gibson: Trapattoni is wrong to say United are holding me back 2010
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And so I did, but more slowly; more grace, more panache, moresex.
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And then do it some more to reduce *more* abortions.
"There is a negative image associated with abortion … and it’s going to carry with it a stigma that will be associated with your facility." Ann Althouse 2009
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As the mother of four, I'm more concerned not terribly concerned but *more* concerned with the next youngest.
The wild speculation that Sarah Palin is not the real mother of the new baby she presents as her own. Ann Althouse 2008
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It showed that women started on supplemental estrogens two or more years after menopause actually had * more* heart disease and died younger because of it, the exact opposite of the retrospective study's conclusion.
A PROSPECTIVE, RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, DOUBLE-BLIND, CLINICAL TRIAL COMPARING ... 2007
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That, and my own realization as a teenager that when I gained weight, it was my biceps becoming more masculine note: *more* masculine, not masculine - they're still pretty scrawny that caused the change.
My fat (but actually very normal-sized) legs Kay Olson 2007
Prolagus commented on the word more
Waves of wanting, by Nancy Dwyer.
April 30, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word more
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia lists, among its definitions of more,
7. A mulberry-tree, Morus nigra; and, 1. to root up.
Go more that more some more.
September 15, 2011