plus
part of speech
preposition (plus); noun (a plus, pluses or plusses); adjective (plus); conjunction (plus — informal: and also)
meaning for a pupil
1) Plus means add. 3 plus 4 is 7. The sign for plus is +. tree →
2) Plus means and also: «It is cheap, plus it is fun». tree →
3) A plus is a good thing, an advantage. tree →
4) Plus after a number means more than: «ages 8 plus», «A plus» (A+) is a top mark. tree →
5) In French, plus means "no more" or "not any more." tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: the word for addition; also «and more»; «plus tax», «plus shipping». In everyday life: «ages 12+» on games and films, «A+» grades. In science: a plus sign marks a positive charge on a battery. In stories: «and, plus, she was late!»
examples
- Soul; the word is NPSh, which is commonly translated soul, meaning the living personality of man, animal or existing thing : it corresponds almost to the Theosophic Prana plus the stimulus of Kama. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- 7) Like Pythagoras, who taught that the digits inclusive number ten which are typified in Tetraktys, (Τετρακτὺς) namely: 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 equal 10, and which comprise the whole arithmetical system of nature, etc. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- What is 6 plus 5? tree →
- 10 plus 8 equals 18. tree →
- It costs 20 dollars plus 2 dollars tax. tree →
- Seven plus three is ten. tree →
- The game is for ages 8 plus. tree →
- She got an A plus on her test. tree →
- The house is near the beach, plus it has a garden. tree →
- Being near school is a big plus. tree →
- The battery has a plus end and a minus end. tree →
- Nous n’irons plus au bois, Les lauriers sont coupés, tree →
note
A direct clue: add. Trap: «plus tax» or «plus shipping» means add an extra amount. Opposite: minus. Addition can be done in any order: 3 + 4 = 4 + 3. «8+» on a toy means for children 8 and older, not exactly 8.
In the corpora
- One clue plus a guess plus another guess feels like news, but it is not.
- Research shows sleep helps the brain store new movement skills, so practice plus rest works better than practising tired for hours.
- A squid or cuttlefish has eight arms plus two longer tentacles with suckers only on their wide tips, ten limbs in all.
- Sign (8.), which Tegumai scratches, is carp-tail plus round egg = yo.
- The sugar plus the water make a solution; let the water evaporate and the sugar comes back.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «plus» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.