more

determinante

1. 1

   Additional; further.

   If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.

   More people are arriving.

   I want more soup.

   I need more time.

2. 2

   Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.

   He is more than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.

3. 3

   También una forma de manycomparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

   There are more ways to do this than I can count.

   One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

4. 4

   También una forma de muchcomparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

   There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.

   Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.

adverbio

1. 1

   To a greater degree or extent.

   I like cake, but I like chocolate more.

   I could no more climb that than fly!

   More advanced students.

   I have more than carried out my obligation.

2. 2

   Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.

   You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.

   I am much more eager to help than you.

   Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

   Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

3. 3

   In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.

   Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.

4. 4

   Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.

   I was more better at English than you.

pronombre

1. 1

   A greater number or quantity (of something).

   We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.

   There isn’t enough salt in this. You need to add more.

   I'd love to see more of Bob and Linda.

2. 2

   An extra or additional quantity (of something).

   There aren’t many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.

   Speaking about Canada, where I teach, while the canon remains the raison d’etre of the discipline, some changes have come about and more are in the offing.

adjetivo

1. 1

   También una forma de manycomparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

   Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.

2. 2

   También una forma de muchcomparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

sustantivo

1. 1

   obsoletoA carrot; a parsnip.

2. 2

   A root; stock.

3. 3

   A plant; flower; shrub.

verbo

1. 1

   To root up.

sustantivo

1. 1

   También una forma de moressingular of mores

   In the 1990s, smoking is considered dumb and a symbol of bad health habits, replete with the Surgeon General’s warnings. But even this belief is a social more, subject to time. Maybe some future society will consider smoking brave—a symbolic affront to Big Brother government—or cowardly—a cop-out to avoid some type of community service.

   A value is a social more or norm manifested as a result of history and culture. It is a shared understanding among people of what is good, desirable or just.

   Given that emotions such as shame, guilt, embarrassment and others involve a violation of a social more or rule, these are often called the social emotions, self-conscious emotions or secondary emotions.

   In a seeming paradox, however, broken taboos may not always carry the heavy repercussions of violations of a social more.

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