plus

Dva plus dva je čtyři.


plus

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


plus

Twee plus twee is vier.


plus

nl-noun

plus m (plural plussen, diminutive plusje n)

plussen (plural)
plusje (diminutive neuter)


plus

Two plus two equals four.

A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.

And; sum of the previous one and the following one.

I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!


plus

Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.


plus

But the pluses far outweigh the criticisms.

2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 57:

He is a real plus to the team.

Look at Trife. He's got two felonies. That means he's finished in society. But he can rap. His two felonies, in rap, man, that's a plus.

2000 July 6, N. R. Kleinfield, quoting Dog, “Guarding the Borders Of the Hip-Hop Nation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


plus

−2 * −2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")

Being positive rather than negative or zero.

He is a plus factor.

A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.

The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.

(postpositive, somewhat informal) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.

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.

1985 August 10, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 13:

minus

antonym(s) of “being positive rather than negative or zero”

bad

antonym(s) of “positive, involving advantage”


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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.

1973, Australian Council for Educational Research, ACER research series - Issues 93-95, page 39:

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.

1974, Control of Human Behavior: Behavior modification in education:

(informal) To add; to subject to addition.

I am doing a lot of writing here, plussing the script, adding sequences.

2006, Danny Fingeroth, Mike Manley, How to Create Comics: From Script to Print, →ISBN, page 48:

We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we are plussing up deputy positions.

2009, United States Congress House Committee on Homeland Security, The Direction and Viability of the Federal Protective Service:

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.

2012, United States Congress House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Military Retirement Reform, page 24:

(often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.

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.

1998, Nate Booth, Strategies for Fast-Changing Times, →ISBN, page 91:

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.

2007, Howard Hendricks, Color Outside the Lines, →ISBN, page 123:

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.

2004, Pat Williams, Jim Denney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, →ISBN, page 154:

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.

2013, David Burkus, The Myths of Creativity, →ISBN:

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.

2014, Steven Krupp, Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future, →ISBN:

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.

2014, BusinessNews Publishing, Summary : Little Bets - Peter Sims, →ISBN:

To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.

Good will is also secured by plussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it.

1920, The Current Business Cyclopedia: Business Digest:

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.

1986, Max Fallek, How to Set Up and Operate Your Own Law Practice:

(sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.

Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem.

1979, Douglas A. Puryear, Helping People in Crisis, page 87:

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.

1997, Bernard L. Bloom, Planned short-term psychotherapy: a clinical handbook, page 187:

When plussing, the intervenor introduces novel viewpoints that can increase the self-esteem of both the attacker and the target.

2015, Kenneth France, Crisis Intervention, →ISBN, page 177:

(psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.

Coordinate term: like

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+.

2012, Lee Odden, Optimize, →ISBN, page 111:

Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.

2014, Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc., →ISBN, page 279:

(social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.

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.

2005, B. Sahni, Transmission of Homoeo Drug Energy from Distance, →ISBN, page 188:

From the remaining water a second dilution can be prepared plussing it to the next slightly higher potency.

2007, Kate Birch, Vaccine Free Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Contagious Disease with Homeopathy, →ISBN:

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.

2011, Kim Lane, Homeopathy for Home: Acute Illness & Injury Care, →ISBN, page 29:

(homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.

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.

1976, David M. Worthen, Perry S. Binder, The intraocular lens in perspective, →ISBN, page 2:

en-verb

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

pluses (present singular third-person)
plusses (present singular third-person)
plusing (participle present)
plussing (participle present)
plused (participle past)
plused (past)
plussed (participle past)
plussed (past)


plus

Du plus du egalas kvar.

Ultimately from Latin plūs (“more”). Doublet of pli and plu.


plus

Ton voisin est plus moche que mon frère.

Your neighbour is uglier than my brother.

Le tien est beaucoup plus grand que le mien.

Elle est plus belle que sa cousine.

Elles sont toutes plus entêtées les unes que les autres.

They are each more stubborn than the last.

more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)

Elle le fait plus rapidement que lui.

plus vite !

more, -er (used to form comparatives of adverbs)

Je travaille plus en ce moment.

Je veux faire plus.

(after a verb) more, -er (indicating a higher degree or quantity)

Elle a plus de chocolat.

Plus de la moitié reste.

more (indicating a greater quantity) [with de]

Une heure de plus et il serait mort.

Un kilo de plus, s’il vous plaît.

la plus grande

le plus difficile

(preceded by a definite article) the most, -est (used to form superlatives of adjectives and adverbs)

Tu n’existes plus.

You no longer exist. / You don't exist any more.

Il n’y a plus de travail.

(usually with the negative particle ne, see usage notes below) no longer, not ... any more

Plus je vois, plus je veux.

(elliptically, introducing each clause) the more ..., the more ...

Plus j’écoute, moins je comprends.

The more I listen, the less I understand.

(similarly, used with other comparatives) the more ..., the ...

Inherited from Old French plus, from Latin plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”).


plus

first/second-person singular past historic of plaire

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


plus

Vier plus eins ergibt fünf.


plus

comparative degree of multus
(more in quantity) more, additionally

comparative degree of multus
more, additionally

plūs (canonical)
plūs (neuter)
plūs (neuter nominative singular)
plūrēs (feminine masculine nominative singular)
plūra (neuter nominative plural)
plūris (genitive neuter singular)
plūrium (feminine genitive masculine neuter)
plūribus (dative feminine masculine neuter)
plūs (accusative neuter singular)
plūrēs (accusative feminine masculine singular)
plūra (accusative neuter plural)
plūre (ablative neuter singular)
plūribus (ablative feminine masculine neuter)
plūs (neuter singular vocative)
plūrēs (feminine masculine singular vocative)
plūra (neuter plural vocative)

From Old Latin plous, from Proto-Italic *plēōs (after being levelled in favour of the neuter *plowis), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”), Old English feolo (“much, many”). More at fele. The adverb is an adverbial accusative.


plus

Plus ultra! = "Further beyond!" (this is the national motto of Spain)

comparative degree of multō (“by much, by far”): further (more in extent)

multō

Dalmatian:

ple

Italo-Romance:

Italian: più

Judeo-Italian: פְלוּ (plu)

Neapolitan: chiù, chjù, cchiù

Sicilian: cchiui (dated), cchiù, cchjù

Padanian:

Friulian: plui

Istriot: pioûn

Ladin: plu

Ligurian: ciù

Lombard: pù, pü, plü

Piedmontese: pì, pu

Romansch: pli

Venetan: pì, pù

Northern Gallo-Romance:

Franco-Provençal: ples

French: plus

Southern Gallo-Romance:

Old Catalan: pus

Catalan: pus (Mallorcan; negative uses only)

Old Occitan: plus

Occitan: pus

Ibero-Romance:

Old Galician-Portuguese: chus

Portuguese: chus (dated)

Galician: chus (dated)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: prus, pius

Borrowings:

→ English: plus

→ Polish: plus

→ Romanian: plus

→ Russian: плюс (pljus)

→ Spanish: plus

→ Swedish: plus


plus

French: plus

Norman: pus (Jersey)


plus

12th century,. Bernard de Ventadour, Lancan folhon bosc e jarric
ome de me no vei plus ric

I do not see a richer [more rich] than me

Occitan: pus, pu, plus


plus

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


plus

Borrowed from Latin plūs. First attested in the early 19th century, acquiring non-mathematical senses by the middle of that century.


plus

plus (addition to what is considered habitual)


plus

plus (indefinite nominative singular)
plus (genitive indefinite singular)
plusset (definite nominative singular)
plussets (definite genitive singular)
plus (indefinite nominative plural)
plus (genitive indefinite plural)
plussen (definite nominative plural)
plussens (definite genitive plural)