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Plus

noun
(pl. pluses, plusses)
1.
A useful or valuable quality.  Synonym: asset.
2.
The arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers.  Synonyms: addition, summation.  "Four plus three equals seven"
adjective
1.
On the positive side or higher end of a scale.  "Temperature of plus 5 degrees" , "A grade of C plus"
2.
Involving advantage or good.  Synonym: positive.



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"Plus" Quotes from Famous Books



... that if he should have been poisoned,—which the writer strongly hints may have been the case,—some Minister under the influence of Russia must have done it. Enough for this record. Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire:[247] who can he be ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... he gathered up the notes plus twenty roubles with which I paid my bill, and taking my hat I followed him to the end of the salle-a-manger behind a high wooden screen, across the huge kitchen, and then through a long stone corridor ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux

... "It was not extravagant when you consider that anything in Venice in the way of a habitable house is called a palace, and that there are no servants to be tipped; that your lights, candles all, cost you first price only, and not the profit of the landlord, plus that of the concierge, plus that of the maid, plus several other small but aggravatingly augmentative sums which make your hotel bills seem like highway robbery. No, living in a palace, on the whole, is cheaper than living in a hotel; incidentals are ...
— The Water Ghost and Others • John Kendrick Bangs

... all of which he ordered; and as I knew that he was well acquainted with the fashion, I gave him carte blanche. When we left the shop, he said, "Now, my dear Newland, I have given you a proof of friendship, which no other man in England has had. Your dress will be the ne plus ultra. There are little secrets only known to the initiated, and Stulz is aware that this time I am in earnest. I am often asked to do the same for others, and I pretend so to do; but a wink from me is sufficient, and Stulz dares ...
— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat

... How lovely she would look with tears in her eyes. Some people dislike angelic faces in women, but I think that to teach an angel how to become a woman is the very height of victory. She is very beautiful, very uncommon looking. 'Enfin, tout ce qu'il y a de plus beau au ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz


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