Word: plus Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 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”). Pronunciation: /ˈplʌs/, /ˈplɜs/, [ˈplɘ̞s], /ˈplɐs/, [ˈpläs] 1. To add; to subject to addition. Labels: informal Example: 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. Example: 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. 2. To increase in magnitude. Labels: often Example: I am doing a lot of writing here, plussing the script, adding sequences. Example: We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we are plussing up deputy positions. 3. To improve. Example: 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. Example: 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. 4. To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms. Example: 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. Example: 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. 5. To sell additional related items with an original purchase. Example: Good will is also secured by plussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it. Example: 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. 6. To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation. Example: Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem. Example: 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. 7. To give a mark of approval on Google+. Labels: dated Example: 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+. Example: Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral. 8. To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring. Example: 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. Example: From the remaining water a second dilution can be prepared plussing it to the next slightly higher potency. 9. To increase a correction. Example: 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.