Definitions for pluses

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pluses plus

Spelling: [pluhs]

IPA: /plʌs/

Pluses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in pluses (elpssu).

Definitions for pluses

noun

1. a plus quantity.
2. Arithmetic. plus sign.
3. something additional.
4. a surplus or gain.

Idioms

1. pluses and minuses, the good and bad points of something; the advantages and disadvantages; the pros and cons:

adverb

1. in addition; besides.

adjective

1. involving or noting addition.
2. positive:
3. more (by a certain amount).
4. Electricity. pertaining to or characterized by positive electricity:
5. Mycology. (in heterothallic fungi) designating, in the absence of morphological differentiation, one of the two strains of mycelia that unite in the sexual process.
6. having a certain quality to an unusual degree:

conjunction

1. Informal. also; and; furthermore:

preposition

1. more by the addition of; increased by:
2. with the addition of; with:

Origin of pluses

1570-80; Latin plūs more; akin to Greek pleíōn, Old Norse fleiri more, Old English feolu, fela, German viel, Gothic filu, Old Irish il, Greek polý many

Examples for pluses

Peace cannot be reached by the simple addition of pluses and elimination of minuses from life.

Life must be studied not from the pluses alone, but from the minuses too.

For the majority of the art world, the pluses for using apps continue to far outweigh the minuses.

Howard Kurtz on the pluses and minuses of potential Mitt running mates after his decisive win in New Hampshire.

So Silicon Valley is destined to become a technological metropolis and there are pluses and minuses to that.

We were in the position of college admissions officers reviewing a high school class where everyone got straight A pluses.

Only the most expert examiner should limit his record to pluses and minuses.