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1985 August 10, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 13:
Have you been to Brazil, Bhutan, or Botswana? Well, I haven't and I'm reday to go ― almost anywhere interesting actually. Warm, wise world traveler seeks equally exciting, self-sufficient soul for adventures plus.
Synonyms
(being positive rather than negative or zero):positive
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1973, Australian Council for Educational Research, ACER research series - Issues 93-95, page 39:
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 is plussing or not-plussing is observing instances or not-instances of the concept of plussing.
2006, Danny Fingeroth, Mike Manley, How to Create Comics: From Script to Print, →ISBN, page 48:
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 are plussing up deputy positions.
2012, United States Congress House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Military Retirement Reform, page 24:
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.
1998, Nate Booth, Strategies for Fast-Changing Times, →ISBN, page 91:
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.
2007, Howard Hendricks, Color Outside the Lines, →ISBN, page 123:
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.
2004, Pat Williams, Jim Denney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, →ISBN, page 154:
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.
2013, David Burkus, The Myths of Creativity, →ISBN:
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.
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's plussing 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 use plussing 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 by plussing 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, page 87:
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, page 187:
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.
2015, Kenneth France, Crisis Intervention, →ISBN, page 177:
When plussing, the intervenor introduces novel viewpoints that can increase the self-esteem of both the attacker and the target.
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+.
2014, Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc., →ISBN, page 279:
Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.
2005, B. Sahni, Transmission of Homoeo Drug Energy from Distance, →ISBN, page 188:
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 prepared plussing it to the next slightly higher potency.
2011, Kim Lane, Homeopathy for Home: Acute Illness & Injury Care, →ISBN, page 29:
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”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
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, or je n'en peux plus)
IPA(key): /plyz‿/ 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)
IPA(key): /plys/ 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)
(usually with the negative particle ne, see usage notes below)no longer, not ... any more
Tu n’existes plus. ― You no longer exist. / You don't exist any more.
Il n’y a plus de travail. ― There is no more work.
(elliptically, introducing each clause) the more ..., the more ...
Plus je vois, plus je veux.
The more I see, the more I want.
(similarly, used with other comparatives) the more ..., the ...
Plus j’écoute, moins je comprends.
The more I listen, the less I understand.
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 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 positive plus (as /plys/) in order to make a distinction.
“plus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“plus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
plus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
plus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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
Old French
Excerpt from the Oxford manuscript of The Song of Roland. The final three words are 'plus de mil'.
