See minus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1981 March, Kevin F[rancis] Collis, Cognitive Development, Mathematics Learning, Information Processing and a Refocusing, Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Individualized Schooling, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, page 9:",
"text": "For example, in solving the following equation, x + 4 = 9, the child using the negating mechanism will reason, \"minussing 4\" undoes \"plussing 4\" therefore, if x + 4 = 9 then x = 5 and will not see any point in using any intermediate steps.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1990, William T. Scott, “Systems and structures”, in The Possibility of Communication (Approaches to Semiotics; 87), Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 38:",
"text": "(The terms positive and negative feedback are now part of everyday language where the meanings are reversed: in cybernetic systems, positive feedback is undesirable for it indicates that the discrepancy is “plussing,” rather than “minussing” to zero.)",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Laura Christine Bofferding, Expanding the Numerical Central Conceptual Structure:",
"text": "Four plus one is 5 and you go down because it's minusing, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Jennifer S. Thom, “Opening Mathematical Spaces of Their Own”, in Re-Rooting the Learning Space: Minding Where Children’s Mathematics Grow (New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education; 21), Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, →ISBN, page 299:",
"text": "“But you also minussed! … Sam… Sam also minussed seventy-two but he also… one hundred forty-four minus seventy-two equals seventy-two. He also minussed the seventy-two.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To subtract."
],
"links": [
[
"subtract",
"subtract"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, colloquial) To subtract."
],
"tags": [
"colloquial",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "mīn-əs"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmaɪnəs/"
},
{
"audio": "En-us-minus.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6c/En-us-minus.ogg/En-us-minus.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/En-us-minus.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪnəs"
}
],
"word": "minus"
}
Download raw JSONL data for minus meaning in English (33.7kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in English: 'plus or minus', originally 'plus or minus'",
"path": [
"minus"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "minus",
"trace": ""
}
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