plus

[Plus]

A plus is an “advantage” or an “asset.” You might look silly walking around with flippers all day, but if you lived underwater, they would definitely be a plus.

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More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

Noun
the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven"

Noun
a useful or valuable quality

Adjective S.
involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor"

Adjective
on the positive side or higher end of a scale; "a plus value"; "temperature of plus 5 degrees"; "a grade of C plus"


a.
More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

a.
Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.


Plus

Plus , a. [L., more; akin to Gr. , , and E. full. See Full, a., and cf. Pi'97, Pleonasm.] 1. (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus. 2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.
Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power.
Plus sign (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity.

More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

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Usage Examples

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.

Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care.

Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

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