plus
Part of speech: prep
conj
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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”).
Inflected forms:
form: pluss
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: plussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: And; sum of the previous one and the following one.
pos: prep
examples: Two plus two equals four.
A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.
gloss: With; having in addition.
pos: prep
tags: colloquial
examples: I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!
gloss: And also; in addition; besides (which).
pos: conj
examples: Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.
gloss: Being positive rather than negative or zero.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: −2 * −2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")
gloss: Positive, or involving advantage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He is a plus factor.
gloss: Electrically positive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.
gloss: (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
postpositional
examples: The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.
gloss: And more.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: 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 plus.
gloss: To add; to subject to addition.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To increase in magnitude.
pos: verb
tags: often
examples: I am doing a lot of writing here, plussing the script, adding sequences.
We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we are plussing up deputy positions.
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 Saturday, on Friday afternoon and go home, and just, you know, go day after day after day.
gloss: To improve.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
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 school at his own expense.
gloss: To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
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 derogatory manner.
gloss: To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
pos: verb
examples: Good will is also secured by plussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it.
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.
gloss: To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
pos: verb
examples: Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem.
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.
When plussing, the intervenor introduces novel viewpoints that can increase the self-esteem of both the attacker and the target.
gloss: To give a mark of approval on Google+.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: 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+.
Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.
gloss: To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
From the remaining water a second dilution can be prepared plussing it to the next slightly higher potency.
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.
gloss: To increase a correction.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Synonyms: and
being positive rather than negative
zero
Antonyms: minus
negative
bad
disadvantageous
Related words: add
addition
times
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