Pronunciations (7)
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/ˈplʌs/
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- Canada
- General-American
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/ˈplɜs/
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[ˈplɘ̞s]
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/ˈplɐs/
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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[ˈpläs]
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- Australia
- New-Zealand
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/ˈplʊs/
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plʌs
Preposition
And; sum of the previous one and the following one.
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Two plus two equals four.
A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.
With; having in addition.
Usage- Colloquial
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I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!
Conjunction
And also; in addition; besides (which).
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Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.
Noun
A positive quantity.
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The figures show a plus.
But the pluses far outweigh the criticisms.
An asset or useful addition.
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He is a real plus to the team.
Look at Trife. He's got two felonies. That means he's finished in society. But he can rap. His two felonies, in rap, man, that's a plus.
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When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.
A plus sign: +.
Adjective
Being positive rather than negative or zero.
Usage- not-comparable
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−2 * −2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")
Positive, or involving advantage.
Usage- not-comparable
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He is a plus factor.
Electrically positive.
Usage- not-comparable
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A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.
(Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.
Usage- Informal
- not-comparable
- postpositional
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The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.
And more.
Usage- Informal
- not-comparable
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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 adventures plus.
Verb
To add; to subject to addition.
Usage- Informal
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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.
The teacher observing the behavior of a child who is plussing or not-plussing is observing instances or not-instances of the concept of plussing.
To increase in magnitude.
Usage- often
- followed by ‘up’
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I am doing a lot of writing here, plussing the script, adding sequences.
We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we are plussing up deputy positions.
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And I believe that, if we can't recognize that in retirement, we ought to recognize it in plussing 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.
To improve.
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Coach Wooden didn't have to depend upon having the most talented players on his team because he could depend upon plussing to constantly make everyone better.
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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 constantly plussing it.
He was a pioneer in plussing the artform of animated cartoons. He began by plussing Micky Mouse with sound, the plussing the Silly Symphonies with color. Walt plussed the skills of his artists by sending them to art school at his own expense.
To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
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The animators and directors on the receiving end of the plussing don't necessarily have to accept and incorporate the feedback, but plussing provides a method to share criticisms in a way that makes it more likely that they will.
Strategic leaders can adapt the US Army's after-action review and Pixar's plussing technique (where you build on ideas rather than critique and subtract) to show their teams how to learn from mistakes.
When people view the early drafts of ideas for their movies under development, they always use plussing to try and come up with suggestions for enhancements. Feedback is always given in an upbeat rather than a derogatory manner.
To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
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Good will is also secured by plussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it.
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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.
To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
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Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem.
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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.
When plussing, the intervenor introduces novel viewpoints that can increase the self-esteem of both the attacker and the target.
To give a mark of approval on Google+.
Usage- Dated
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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+.
Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.
To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
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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.
From the remaining water a second dilution can be prepared plussing it to the next slightly higher potency.
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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.
To increase a correction.
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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.
Adjective
on the positive side or higher end of a scale
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a plus value
temperature of plus 5 degrees
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a grade of C plus
involving advantage or good
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a plus (or positive) factor
Noun
a useful or valuable quality
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a sign indicating the operation of addition
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four plus three equals seven