Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- conjunction Mathematics Increased by the addition of.
- conjunction Added to; along with.
- conjunction Usage Problem And.
- adjective Positive or on the positive part of a scale.
- adjective Added or extra.
- adjective Informal Increased to a further degree or number.
- adjective Ranking on the higher end of a designated scale.
- adjective Physics Positive.
- adjective Plus-size.
- noun Mathematics The plus sign (+).
- noun A positive quantity.
- noun A favorable condition or factor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- More (by a certain amount); increased (by a specified addition): followed by a noun as an apparent object (a preposition, by, to be supplied): as, the interest plus the disbursements amounts to so much; 6 plus 9 is 15: in this and the next two uses correlative to minus.
- More than nothing; belonging to the positive side, as of an account; above zero, or above the lowest point of positive reckoning: as, a plus quantity in an equation (that is, one having the plus sign, or when initial having no sign, before it).
- Marking more than zero; positive: as, the plus sign.
- In etymology, in composition with; with the addition of (the word or element following): expressed, as in mathematics, by the sign + (see the etymologies in this work). The same sign is occasionally used to indicate cognate or related forms
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to
minus . - adjective Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
- adjective (Math.) the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- conjunction
sum of the previous one and the following one. - conjunction colloquial with; having in addition
- conjunction and also; in addition
- noun A
positive quantity . - noun An
asset oruseful addition . - noun arithmetic A
plus sign :+ . - adjective Being
positive rather thannegative orzero . - adjective Positive, or involving
advantage . - adjective physics
Electrically positive . - verb informal To
add ; to subject toaddition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers
- noun a useful or valuable quality
- adjective involving advantage or good
- adjective on the positive side or higher end of a scale
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Miami want ad: 'Terrorist experience a plus' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Miami want ad: \'Terrorist experience a plus\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Convicted Cuban American terrorists living freely in Miami as freedom fighters while the U.S. government looks on. '
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That is, a non-mammalian is a fertilized egg _plus_ its parental (or extra-parental) environment; but a mammalian individual is a fertilized egg, _plus its intra-maternal environment_, plus its non-parental environment.
Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family Melvin Moses Knight 1934
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Just as an effect and an individual give rise to the idea of one thing, so the effect plus cause, and the individual _plus_ generic character, also give rise to the idea of one thing only.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Page 13. 9. plus de Vendredi! plus de perroquet … plus possible: _plus_ is often used negatively without _ne_ when the verb is understood.
Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Alphonse Daudet 1868
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Basic understanding of HTML (Dreamweaver skills are a plus, advanced HTML skills are a plus+).
Comic Book Resources 2010
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The popular date simulator Love plus, a Nintendo DS title has had its newest title works leaked, Love plus+ (Note it has an extra plus!
Anime Nano! 2010
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To me, the main plus is that you can distribute in a lot of ways without having to pay for many of those outlets.
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If you google the term plus climateaudit, you should locate the post.
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He gained as a reward his title plus vast lands along the river after which he was named.
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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I to saw the "Part 1" in the title plus the statement in the last paragraph: "the next dispatch or two, is meant to describe what I witnessed, in order to set the context of my private conversation".
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