more
IPA: mˈɔr
noun
- (obsolete) A carrot; a parsnip.
- (dialectal) A root; stock.
- (dialectal) A plant; flower; shrub.
- The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
- A small village and civil parish (without a council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3491).
verb
- (transitive) To root up.
adverb
- To a greater degree or extent.
- Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
- (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
- (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
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Examples of "more" in Sentences
- And then do it some more to reduce *more* abortions.
- And so I did, but more slowly; more grace, more panache, moresex.
- • More carbon footprints: nuclear war, a cappuccino, more• Understand more about carbon footprints
- • More carbon footprints: nuclear war, cycling a mile, more• Understand more about carbon footprints
- As the mother of four, I'm more concerned not terribly concerned but *more* concerned with the next youngest.
- • Republic manager says Gibson must play more to grow more• 'To what club could I go to improve my game?' says midfielder
- The Calvin & Hobbes futurefic "Every Day is a Reminder" got more than a thousand fewer hits than "They Come in Threes" and over a third *more* comments.
- That, and my own realization as a teenager that when I gained weight, it was my biceps becoming more masculine note: *more* masculine, not masculine - they're still pretty scrawny that caused the change.
- It showed that women started on supplemental estrogens two or more years after menopause actually had * more* heart disease and died younger because of it, the exact opposite of the retrospective study's conclusion.
- There you'll be, a furious collection of primordial organelles focused like a coherent light machine on the hyperholistic sublimity of 'appliance' as a signifier of more than simply an instance of a particular hardware configuration, but as an aggregation of physical nature with the abstraction of 'applicabilty,' more than just a word, but a magickal spell that conjures technology out of ecology.
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