1985 August 10, “Personal advertisement”, inGay Community News, volume13, number 5, page13:
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 adventuresplus.
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1973, Australian Council for Educational Research,ACER research series - Issues 93-95, page39:
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.
1974,Control of Human Behavior: Behavior modification in education:
The teacher observing the behavior of a child who isplussing or not-plussing is observing instances or not-instances of the concept ofplussing.
2006, Danny Fingeroth, Mike Manley,How to Create Comics: From Script to Print,→ISBN, page48:
I am doing a lot of writing here,plussing the script, adding sequences.
2009, United States Congress House Committee on Homeland Security,The Direction and Viability of the Federal Protective Service:
We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we areplussing up deputy positions.
2012, United States Congress House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel,Military Retirement Reform, page24:
And I believe that, if we can't recognize that in retirement, we ought to recognize it inplussing 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.
1998, Nate Booth,Strategies for Fast-Changing Times,→ISBN, page91:
Coach Wooden didn't have to depend upon having the most talented players on his team because he could depend uponplussing to constantly make everyone better.
2007, Howard Hendricks,Color Outside the Lines,→ISBN, page123:
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 constantlyplussing it.
2004, Pat Williams, Jim Denney,How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life,→ISBN, page154:
He was a pioneer inplussing the artform of animated cartoons. He began byplussing Micky Mouse with sound, theplussing the Silly Symphonies with color. Waltplussed the skills of his artists by sending them to art school at his own expense.
The animators and directors on the receiving end of the plussing don't necessarily have to accept and incorporate the feedback, butplussing provides a method to share criticisms in a way that makes it more likely that they will.
2014, Steven Krupp, Paul J.H. Schoemaker,Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future,→ISBN:
Strategic leaders can adapt the US Army's after-action review and Pixar'splussing technique (where you build on ideas rather than critique and subtract) to show their teams how to learn from mistakes.
2014, BusinessNews Publishing,Summary : Little Bets - Peter Sims,→ISBN:
When people view the early drafts of ideas for their movies under development, they always useplussing to try and come up with suggestions for enhancements. Feedback is always given in an upbeat rather than a derogatory manner.
1920,The Current Business Cyclopedia: Business Digest:
Good will is also secured byplussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it.
1986, Max Fallek,How to Set Up and Operate Your Own Law Practice:
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.
1979, Douglas A. Puryear,Helping People in Crisis, page87:
Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem.
1997, Bernard L. Bloom,Planned short-term psychotherapy: a clinical handbook, page187:
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.
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+.
2005, B. Sahni,Transmission of Homoeo Drug Energy from Distance,→ISBN, page188:
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.
2007, Kate Birch,Vaccine Free Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Contagious Disease with Homeopathy,→ISBN:
From the remaining water a second dilution can be preparedplussing it to the next slightly higher potency.
2011, Kim Lane,Homeopathy for Home: Acute Illness & Injury Care,→ISBN, page29:
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.
1976, David M. Worthen, Perry S. Binder,The intraocular lens in perspective,→ISBN, page 2:
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.
“plus”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03
IPA(key): /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, orje n'en peux plus)
IPA(key): /plyz‿/ in the case of aliaison, i.e. if followed by an adjective or an adverb beginning with a vowel (e.g.tu dois être plus ambitieux)
IPA(key): /plys/ in its positive sense, when not followed by an adjective or an adverb (e.g.j'en ai plus que toi oravancez un peu plus, s'il vous plait)
There may be some difficulty for non-native speakers to detect the negativity or positivity of "plus". The negative sense is generally used with ane, 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 positiveplus (as/plys/) in order to make a distinction.
“plus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“plus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"plus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
plus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[3], London:Macmillan and Co.
twenty years and more:viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
one, two, several days had passed, intervened:dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant
to expend great labour on a thing:egregiam operam (multum, plus etc.operae)dare alicui rei
to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines:plura in eam sententiam disputare
to give a full, detailed account of a thing:pluribus verbis, copiosius explicare, persequialiquid
to possess great political insight:plus in re publica videre
to say nothing further on..:ut plura non dicam
in short; to be brief:ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
more of this another time:sed de hoc alias pluribus
