| more |
| 1. det. comparative degree of many, : in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.) | |
| More people are arriving. | |
| There are more ways to do this than I can count. | |
| 2. det. comparative degree of much, : in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.) | |
| I want more soup; I need more time | |
| There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places. | |
| 3. adv. To a greater degree or extent. | |
| He walks more in the morning these days. | |
| 4. adv. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. | |
| 5. adv. Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. | |
| You're more beautiful than I ever imagined. | |
| 6. adv. (now dialectal, or humorous) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. (Standard until the 18thc.) | |
| I was more better at English than you. | |
| 7. adv. rather | |
| He is more clever than wise. | |
| 8. n. An extra amount or extent. | |
| 9. n. (obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip. | |
| 10. n. (dialectal) a root; stock. | |
| 11. n. A plant. | |
| 12. v. To root up. | |
| 13. pron. a greater amount of people or things | |
| than |
| 1. conj. (obsolete, outside, dialects, usually used with for) Because; for. | |
| 2. conj. Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison. | |
| she's taller than I am; she found his advice more witty than helpful; we have less work today than we had yesterday; it's bigger than I thought it was | |
| 3. prep. introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two | |
| Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years. | |
| 4. adv. (now chiefly dialectal) At that time; then. | |
