2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, inThe Economist[2], volume411, number8891:
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably savedmore lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
There'smore caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, inThe Economist[3], volume407, number8842, pages72–3:
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lotmore calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
Additional; further.
If you run out, there aremore bandages in the first aid cupboard.
More people are arriving.
I wantmore soup.
I needmore time.
Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.
He ismore than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girlsmore than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry andmore mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. Withmore settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
(now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, anylonger;any more.[from 10thc.]
Bulgarian:по-(bg)(po-) (before adjectives and adverbs as a prefix),по́(bg)(pó) (before verbs, nouns and prepositions),повече(bg)(poveče) (before verbs)
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There aren’t many people here yet, butmore should be arriving soon.
2016, Arun P. Mukherjee, “English Studies in Contemporary India”, in M. Sridhar, Sunita Mishra, editors,Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates, page254:
Speaking about Canada, where I teach, while the canon remains theraison d’etre of the discipline, some changes have come about andmore are in the offing.
1996, Michael J. Bugeja, “[Influence] The Impact of Social Mores”, inLiving Ethics: Developing Values in Mass Communication, Boston, Mass.:Allyn and Bacon,→ISBN, part I (Building Your Ethical Base),page15:
In the 1990s, smoking is considered dumb and a symbol of bad health habits, replete with the Surgeon General’s warnings. But even this belief is a socialmore, subject to time. Maybe some future society will consider smoking brave—a symbolic affront to Big Brother government—or cowardly—a cop-out to avoid some type of community service.
2004, Robert S. Pomeroy, John E. Parks, Lani M. Watson, “[The MPA management effectiveness indicators] The socio-economic indicators”, inHow Is Your MPA Doing? A Guidebook of Natural and Social Indicators for Evaluating Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness (IUCN Programme on Protected Areas), Gland, Cambridge:International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources,→ISBN, page122:
A value is a socialmore or norm manifested as a result of history and culture. It is a shared understanding among people of what is good, desirable or just.
2008, David R. Caruso, “Emotions and the Ability Model of Emotional Intelligence”, in Robert J. Emmerling, Vinod K. Shanwal,Manas K[umar] Mandal, editors,Emotional Intelligence: Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives, New York, N.Y.:Nova Science Publishers, Inc.,→ISBN, page 7:
Given that emotions such as shame, guilt, embarrassment and others involve a violation of a socialmore or rule, these are often called the social emotions, self-conscious emotions or secondary emotions.
2008, Barak A. Salmoni, Paula Holmes-Eber, “[Dimension Five – Belief Systems] Some Features of Belief Systems”, inOperational Culture for the Warfighter: Principles and Applications, Quantico, Va.:Marine Corps University Press,→ISBN, part II (Five Operational Culture Dimensions for Planning and Execution), page189:
In a seeming paradox, however, broken taboos may not always carry the heavy repercussions of violations of a socialmore.
According to Orel from the aoristic form ofmarr without a clear sense development. It could also be a remnant of a grammatical structure of a lostsubstrate language, which may be the source of the same interjection found in all Balkan languages.[1] Alternatively, fromGreekμωρέ(moré,“mate”,interjection, literally“stupid!”), a frozen vocative ofμωρός(mōrós). In that case, it may be adoublet ofbre.
(Serbia)when spoken sharply, asserts that the speaker is stronger or older or more powerful than the addressee, sometimes expressing contempt or superiority
1824, recorded by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić,Narodne srpske pjesme:
»More, Marko, ne ori drumova!« / »More, Turci, ne gaz’te oranja!«
»More, Marko, don’t plow up our roads!« / »More, Turks, don’t walk on my plowing!«
(Serbia)when not spoken sharply, functions as a term of endearment or generic intensifier, cf.bre
Please seeModule:checkparams for help with this warning.Tomislav Maretić, editor (1911–1916), “mȍre 1”, inRječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika[4] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 7, Zagreb:JAZU, page 4
“more”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak),https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk,2003–2025
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page86
