plus

See also: Plus and plús

plus - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /plʌs/
  • (General Australian) IPA: /pɫɐs/

Preposition

plus

  1. 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.
  2. (colloquial) With; having in addition.
    • I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!

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Translations

  • Arabic: بِالْإِضَافَة إِلَى (bi-l-ʔiḍāfa ʔilā)
  • Bulgarian: плюс (bg) (pljus)
  • Chinese:
  • Danish: og (da), plus (da)
  • Dutch: plus (nl)
  • French: plus (fr)
  • Hungarian: plusz (hu)
  • Icelandic: auk (is), og (is)
  • Portuguese: mais (pt)
  • Russian: плюс (ru) m (pljus)
  • Spanish: más (es)
  • Swedish: och (sv), plus (sv)
  • Turkish: artı (tr), ayrıca (tr)

Conjunction

plus

  1. And also; in addition; besides (which).
    • Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.

Noun

plus (plural pluses or plusses)

  1. A positive quantity.
  2. An asset or useful addition.
    • He is a real plus to the team.
  3. (arithmetic) A plus sign: +.

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Adjective

plus (not comparable)

  1. Being positive rather than negative or zero.
    • 2 * 2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")
  2. Positive, or involving advantage.
    • He is a plus factor.
  3. (physics) Electrically positive.
    • A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.
  4. (postpositive) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
    • The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.

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Translations

Verb

plus (third-person singular simple present pluses or plusses, present participle plusing or plussing, simple past and past participle plused or plussed)

  1. (informal) To add; to subject to addition.
  2. (often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.
  3. To improve.
  4. To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
  5. (sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
  6. (psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
  7. (social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.
    • Coordinate term: like
  8. (homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
  9. (optometry) To increase a correction.

Anagrams

plus - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈplus]

Conjunction

plus

  1. plus
    • Antonym: minus
    • Dva plus dva je čtyři.Two plus two equals four.

Noun

plus m inan or n

  1. plus

Declension

when masculine:

singular plural
nominative plus plusy
genitive plusu plusů
dative plusu plusům
accusative plus plusy
vocative pluse plusy
locative plusu plusech
instrumental plusem plusy

Indeclinable when neuter.

plus - Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [plus]
  • Hyphenation: plus

Conjunction

plus

  1. plus
    • Du plus du egalas kvar.Two plus two equals four.
    • Antonym: minus

plus - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈplus/, [ˈplus̠]
  • Syllabification: plus

Conjunction

plus

  1. plus

Adjective

plus (not inflected)

  1. plus

Derived terms

plus - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ply/ in its positive sense if followed by an adjective or an adverb not beginning with a vowel, and always in its negative sense (e.g. il est plus grand que moi, or je n'en peux plus)
  • IPA: /plyz‿/ in the case of a liaison, i.e. if followed by an adjective or an adverb beginning with a vowel (e.g. tu dois être plus ambitieux)
  • IPA: /plys/ in its positive sense, when not followed by an adjective or an adverb (e.g. j'en ai plus que toi or avancez un peu plus, s'il vous plait)
  • (Quebec, informal) IPA: /py/ in its negative sense.

Adverb

plus

  1. more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)
    • Ton voisin est plus moche que mon frère.Your neighbour is uglier than my brother.
    • Le tien est beaucoup plus grand que le mien.Yours is much bigger than mine.
    • Elle est plus belle que sa cousine.She is more beautiful than her cousin.
    • Elles sont toutes plus entêtées les unes que les autres.They are each more stubborn than the last.
  2. more, -er (used to form comparatives of adverbs)
    • Elle le fait plus rapidement que lui.She does it more quickly than he does.
    • plus vite !faster!
  3. (after a verb) more, -er (indicating a higher degree or quantity)
    • Je travaille plus en ce moment.I am working more at the moment.
    • Je veux faire plus.I want to do more.
  4. more (indicating a greater quantity) [+ de (noun)]
    • Elle a plus de chocolat.She has more chocolate.
    • Plus de la moitié reste.More than half is left.
  5. more (supplementary, preceded by de)
    • Une heure de plus et il serait mort.One more hour and he would be dead.
    • Un kilo de plus, s'il vous plaît.One more kilo, please.
  6. (preceded by a definite article) the most, -est (used to form superlatives of adjectives and adverbs)
    • la plus grandethe biggest
    • le plus difficilethe most difficult
  7. (usually with the negative particle ne, see usage notes below) no longer, not ... any more
    • Tu n'existes plus.You no longer exist. / You don't exist any more.
    • Il n'y a plus de travail.There is no more work.
  8. (elliptically, introducing each clause) the more ..., the more ...
    • Plus je vois, plus je veux.
      • The more I see, the more I want.
  9. (similarly, used with other comparatives) the more ..., the ...
    • Plus j'écoute, moins je comprends.
      • The more I listen, the less I understand.

Usage notes

  • There may be some difficulty for non-native speakers to detect the negativity or positivity of "plus". The negative sense is generally used with a ne, but the "ne" is sometimes elided or even dropped in colloquial speech. Thus in certain cases, some speakers may choose to pronounce the final /s/ of a positive plus (as /plys/) in order to make a distinction.

Derived terms

Noun

plus m (plural plus)

  1. plus, the symbol +

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ply/

Verb

plus

  1. first/second-person singular past historic of plaire

Participle

plus m pl

  1. (obsolete) masculine plural of the past participle of plaire

Usage notes

  • In modern French, the past participle of plaire is always invariable, because it is always intransitive.

plus - German

Adverb

plus

  1. plus, increased by
    • Synonyms: mehr, und
    • Antonym: minus
    • Vier plus eins ergibt fünf.4+1=5

plus - Interlingua

Adverb

plus (not comparable)

  1. more (used to form comparatives)

le plus

  1. the most (used to form superlatives)

Antonyms

plus - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /pluːs/, [pɫ̪uːs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /plus/, [plus]

Adjective

plūs (neuter plūs); third declension

  1. comparative degree of multus
    1. (more in quantity) more, additionally
      • Synonym: magis (magis indicates more in degree)
    2. (more in extent) further
      • Plus ultra! = "Further beyond!" (this is the national motto of Spain)

Declension

Irregular third-declension comparative adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative plūs plūrēs plūra
Genitive plūris plūrium
Dative plūribus
Accusative plūs plūrēs plūra
Ablative plūre plūribus
Vocative plūs plūrēs plūra

Note: Singular forms take the genitive of the whole and do not function as adjectives.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Padanian:
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old Catalan: pus
      • Catalan: pus (Mallorcan; negative uses only)
    • Old Occitan: plus
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: chus
      • Portuguese: chus (dated)
      • Galician: chus (dated)
  • Insular Romance:
  • Borrowings:

plus - Old French

Adverb

plus

  1. (with de) more than

Descendants

plus - Old Occitan

Adverb

plus

  1. more

Descendants

plus - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /plus/
  • Syllabification: plus

Noun

plus m inan

  1. plus, plus sign

Declension

singular plural
nominative plus plusy
genitive plusa plusów
dative plusowi plusom
accusative plus plusy
instrumental plusem plusami
locative plusie plusach
vocative plusie plusy

plus - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /plus/

Conjunction

plus

  1. plus, and

Synonyms

Noun

plus n (plural plusuri)

  1. plus, addition, extra, surplus

Derived terms

plus - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈplus/ [ˈplus]
  • Syllabification: plus

Noun

plus m (plural pluses)

  1. bonus (extra earnings)
  2. plus (addition to what is considered habitual)

Derived terms

plus - Swedish

Conjunction

plus

  1. (mathematics) and, plus

Noun

plus n

  1. plus sign
  2. benefit, advantage

Declension

Declension of plus 

Derived terms

Meaning and Definition of plus
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