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–, retrieved3 July 2023
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.
Seuplūrīs hiemēs seu tribuit Juppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositīs dēbilitat pūmicibus mare Tyrrhēnum, sapiās, vīna liquēs et spatiō brevī spem longam resecēs.
1618,Isaac Beeckman,Journal, page 106 recto; quoted in Charles Adam and Paul Tannery,Œuvres de Descartes, Paris: Léopold Cerf,1908,page221, footnote c:
Eodem modo quo spatium multiplicatur, etiam impedimentum multiplicatur, si intelligas in aere vel aqua, id est in pleno, quicquam cadere. Res enim cadens descibit figuram oblongam, lineis omnibus parallelam; cùm res secundâ horâ velocius cadit, plusque spacij percurrat, ea est proportio figuræ quam primâ horâ describit ad eam quam describit secundâ horâ, ut spacium primâ horâ peragratum ad secundâ horâ peragratum. Si igitur res cadens ab impedimento non impediretur, tantopluri aeri secundâ horâ occurreret, quanto majus est secundæ horæ paralelipipedum, quàm primæ horæ.
In classical Latin, always plural when used as an adjective. The neuter singularplūs, inflected from the same stem, is used only as a pronoun or adverb. To express "more" of a singular noun denoting an uncountable substance, the pronounplūs is used with the genitive singular of the noun: e.g.plūsaquae "more water", literally "more of water",plūsāeris "more air", literally "more of air".
The wordmaior(“greater”), the comparative ofmagnus, is used to express greater magnitude, and is sometimes used in contexts where English might use "more" (e.g.maiorpecūnia "more money; a greater sum",[1]maiōrevī "with more/greater force",maiōrespatiōtemporis "more time; a greater interval of time").
"Cum dicebas: Si indigetis pecuniae, pecuniam non habetis, hoc intellegebam: Si propter inopiam in egestate estis, pecuniam non habetis, et idcirco concedebam; cum autem hoc sumebas: Indigetis autem pecuniae, illud accipiebam: Vultis autem pecuniaeplus habere. Ex quibus concessionibus non conficitur hoc: Pauperes igitur estis; conficeretur autem, si tibi primo quoque hoc concessissem, qui pecuniam maiorem vellet habere, eum pecuniam non habere."
1949 translation by H. M. Hubbell
"When you said, 'If you want money, you do not have money,' I understood it to mean, 'If on account of poverty you are in extreme want, you do not have money,' and therefore I granted the point; when, however, you said, 'You do want money,' I took that to mean 'You do want to havemore money.' From this admission it does not follow that you are poor. It would follow, if at first I had made this admission also, 'Whoever wishes to have more money, does not have money.'"
Itaque cum hoc unum propter Salonium ab senatu non impetraretur, tum Salonius obtestatus patres conscriptos ne suum honorempluris quam concordiam civitatis aestimarent, perpulit ut id quoque ferretur.
1924 translation by B. O. Foster
And so, when this one provision would have failed of enactment by the senate, out of consideration for Salonius, he himself besought the Fathers not to thinkmore highly of his distinction than of harmony in the state, and induced them to pass this also.
Sed quaecumque in clivis erunt positae, ita ablaqueandae sunt, ut a superiore parte secundum codicem lacusculi fiant, ab inferiore autem pulvilli altiores excitentur, quoplus aquae limique contineant.
1955 translation by E. S. Forster, Edward H. Heffner
But any vines which are planted on slopes must be trenched in such a way that pools may be formed on the higher ground next the stem, and ridges raised to a greater height on the lower ground, so as to containmore water and mud.
1271 – 1272,Thomas Aquinas,In decem libros Ethicorum expositio book 8.lectio 13.n. 7:
Illi enim qui utuntur se invicem ad utilitatem, semperpluri indigent quam eis detur, et existimant quod minus recipiant quam eis conveniat.
For those who use each other for benefit always wantmore than is given to them, and think that they receive less than is suitable for them.
Can be used with a partitive genitive to express "more of" or withquam to express "more than".
In classical Latin, primarily used in the nominative/accusative, or in the genitive to express value. The ablative singular formplūre could also be used to express value in early Latin, but only a few attestations of this exist,[2] and it may have become archaic in Classical Latin.[3]
In postclassical Latin, the ablative singular is sometimesplūrī instead ofplūre.
“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)
