Plus

Conjunction

 * 1) sum of the previous one and the following one.
 * Two plus two equals four.
 * A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.
 * 1)  with; having in addition
 * I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred Euros' spending money!
 * 1) and also; in addition
 * Let's go home now, it's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.

Synonyms

 * and

Antonyms

 * minus

Derived terms

 * plus sign

Noun

 * 1) A positive quantity.
 * 2) An asset or useful addition.
 * He is a real plus to the team.
 * 1)  A plus sign: +.

Synonyms

 * asset
 * plus sign

Antonyms

 * liability, minus
 * minus, minus sign

Adjective

 * 1) Being positive rather than negative or zero.
 * -2 * -2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")
 * 1) Positive, or involving advantage.
 * He is a plus factor.
 * 1)  Electrically positive.
 * A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.

Derived terms

 * on the plus side
 * on the plus side

Synonyms

 * positive
 * advantageous, good, positive

Antonyms

 * minus, negative
 * bad, disadvantageous, minus, negative

Thesaurus
above, accessory, add, added, added to, addend, addition, additional, additionally, adjoin, advantage, affix, again, agglutinate, aggrandize, all included, along with, also, altogether, among other things, ancillary, and, and all, and also, and so, annex, another, append, as well, as well as, asset, attach, attended by, au reste, augment, auxiliary, balance, beef up, benefit, beside, besides, beyond, bonus, boost, build, burden, collateral, complicate, compound, conjoin, contributory, coupled with, decorate, dividend, else, en plus, encumber, enlarge, expand, extra, farther, for lagniappe, fresh, further, furthermore, gain, glue on, gratuity, hitch on, in addition, in addition to, in conjunction with, including, inclusive of, infix, inter alia, into the bargain, item, join with, lagniappe, leftover, let alone, likewise, linked to, magnify, margin, minus, more, moreover, negative, new, not to mention, on the side, on top of, ornament, other, over, over and above, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, paste on, plus sign, positive, postfix, pourboire, prefix, profit, put with, remainder, return, saddle with, similarly, slap on, something extra, spare, subjoin, subtotal, suffix, sum, summation, superadd, supernumerary, superpose, supplemental, supplementary, surplus, surplusage, tack on, tag, tag on, then, therewith, tip, to boot, together with, too, total, ulterior, unite with, with, yet

Etymology
From plus:.

Conjunction

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese: 加 (jiā)
 * Croatian: plus
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: συν (sin)
 * Hebrew: פלוס (ploos), ועוד (ve'od)


 * Icelandic: plús
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 더하기 (deohagi), -을 더하여 (-eul deohayeo)
 * Latvian:
 * Norwegian: og, pluss
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Icelandic: ,


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * French:


 * Icelandic:
 * Swedish: plus, positivt tal


 * Dutch: meerwaarde ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Icelandic:, ,


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: plus, [[tillgång, tillskott

Adjective

 * Catalan: més, positiu
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Icelandic: jákvæður, jákvæð , jákvætt ; pósitífur , pósitíf , pósitíft ; stærri en núll , stærra en núll


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: プラスの (purasu no), 正の (sei no)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: artı


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Japanese: プラスの (purasu no)


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: положительный (položítel’nyj)
 * Swedish: extra, plus, överskjutande


 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * Icelandic: jákvæður, jákvæð , jákvætt ; pósitífur , pósitíf , pósitíft ; með jákvæða hleðslu


 * Japanese: プラスの (purasu no), 正の (sei no)
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: положительный (položítel’nyj)
 * Swedish:


 * : 正
 * : Plus


 * : más

Synonyms

 * ynnä

Antonyms

 * miinus

Derived terms

 * plusmerkkinen
 * plussa

Adverb

 * 1) more, -er used to form comparatives of adjectives
 * Ton voisin est plus moche que mon frère
 * Your neighbour is uglier than my brother.
 * Le tien est beaucoup plus grand que le mien.
 * Yours is much bigger than mine.
 * Elle est plus belle que sa cousine.
 * She is more beautiful than her cousin.
 * J'en veux plus
 * I want more
 * Elles sont tous plus entêtés les uns que les autres.
 * They are each more stubborn than the last.
 * 1) more, -er used to form comparatives of adverbs
 * Elle le fait plus rapidement que lui.
 * She does it faster than him.
 * plus vite !
 * faster!
 * trois fois plus grand
 * three times bigger
 * mille fois plus intelligent
 * a thousand times more intelligent
 * 1)  more, -er indicating a higher degree or quantity
 * Je travaille plus en ce moment.
 * I'm working more at the moment.
 * Je veux faire plus.
 * I want to do more.
 * 1)  more indicating a greater quantity; followed by de
 * Elle a plus de chocolate.
 * She has more chocolate.
 * Il n'y a plus de travail.
 * There's no more work.
 * plus de la moitié reste.
 * more than half's remaining
 * 1) more supplementary, preceded by de
 * Une heure de plus et il sera mort
 * one more hour and he'll be dead.
 * un kilo de plus, s'il vous plait
 * one more kilo, please
 * 1)  most, -est used to form superlatives of adjectives and adverbs
 * la plus grande
 * the biggest
 * le plus difficile
 * the most difficult
 * 1)  no longer, not ... any more
 * Tu n'existes plus - You no longer exist or You don't exist any more

Derived terms

 * à plus
 * à plus tard
 * au plus
 * de plus
 * de plus en plus
 * en plus
 * non plus
 * plus ça change
 * plus que jamais
 * plus-que-parfait
 * sans plus

Usage notes

 * There may be some difficulty for non-native speakers to detect the negativity or positivity of "plus". The negative sense is generally used with a ne:, but sometimes the "ne" is dropped in colloquial speech. Thus in certain cases, some speakers may choose to pronounce the final of a positive plus (as  in order to make a distinction.

Noun

 * , the symbol +

Pronunciation

 * in the case of a liaison, i.e. if followed by an adjective (or an adverb) beginning with a vowel (e.g. tu dois être plus ambitieux)
 * 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, or je n'en peux plus)
 * in its positive sense, when not followed by an adjective or an adverb (e.g. j'en ai plus que toi or avancez un peu plus, s'il vous plait).
 * in its positive sense, when not followed by an adjective or an adverb (e.g. j'en ai plus que toi or avancez un peu plus, s'il vous plait).

Preposition

 * 1) plus, increased by
 * Vier plus eins ergibt fünf.

Antonyms

 * minus

Adjective

 * 1)  ; more

Adjective

 * 1) more

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with πολύς:,  feolo:. More at.

Noun

 * 1) plus, plus sign

Conjunction

 * , and

Synonyms

 * şi

Noun

 * 1) plus, addition, extra, surplus

Derived terms

 * plusa

Etymology
From plus:.