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[mawr, mohr]

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adjective, compar. of much or many with most as superl.

in greater quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: I need more money.

additional or further: Do you need more time? More discussion seems pointless.

noun

an additional quantity, amount, or number: I would give you more if I had it. He likes her all the more. When I could take no more of such nonsense, I left.

a greater quantity, amount, or degree: More is expected of him. The price is more than I thought.

something of greater importance: His report is more than a survey.

(used with a plural verb) a greater number of a class specified, or the greater number of persons: More will attend this year than ever before.

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adverb compar. of much with most as superl.

in or to a greater extent or degree (in this sense often used before adjectives and adverbs, and regularly before those of more than two syllables, to form comparative phrases having the same force and effect as the comparative degree formed by the termination -er): more interesting; more slowly.

in addition; further; longer; again: Let's talk more another time. We couldn't stand it any more.

moreover.

Idioms

10.

more and more, to an increasing extent or degree; gradually more: They became involved more and more in stock speculation.

11.

more or less,

to some extent; somewhat: She seemed more or less familiar with the subject.

about; in substance; approximately: We came to more or less the same conclusion.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English māra; cognate with Old High German mēro, Old Norse meiri, Gothic maiza. See most

Related forms

more·ness, noun

Can be confused: moor, more.

Example Sentences

More than half have canceled or delayed infrastructure projects.

We have no political party behind us supporting a more complex and unsettling view of educational aims.

More than a quarter of the places where the dinosaur freeway surfaces have yielded signs of crocs.

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More than half have canceled or delayed infrastructure projects.

We have no political party behind us supporting a more complex and unsettling view of educational aims.

More than a quarter of the places where the dinosaur freeway surfaces have yielded signs of crocs.

The bigger the mane, the more impressive a lion looks to other males.

It would be helpful if the editors put more detailed information on the methodology.

More specifically, though, we're talking the version of events that's being taught in many schools today.

How to create the perfect little basil garden more.

Age ratings are more complicated than they first appear, especially if you are a parent who is new to gaming.

Readers' experiences with transportation alternatives point the way to a more efficient and healthier future for public transit.

On average, people with more education make more money over their careers.

More and more people and devices are being hooked up to the internet.

The larger group of these insects is more properly called the praying mantids.

More violent and frequent storms, once merely a prediction of climate models, are now a matter of observation.

May the dream move more and more into the reality of our daily lives.

Choosing at the seafood counter has never been more challenging.

However, such usage is no more welcomed than a rootkit that does damage or allows spyware to thrive without detection.

The ploy is more posturing on an issue that has already seen too much grandstanding.

It's time for more of us in education to do the same and do more to take a stand.

And those costs sap funding from humbler but more efficient schemes.

Teco shows more interest in objects than in his family-much as autistic children do.

Among the more perplexing bits of climate change research are the predictions for both more droughts and more floods.

The raised soil gives plant roots a few more inches of growing room, and the edging keeps the soil in place.

Astronomers have one more reason to scratch their heads over the unseen material known as dark matter.

They will also be granted more flexibility in how they spend federal dollars for needy students.

Journals and referees need to take more care to give credit where credit is due.

It is patient: its managers care more about long-term growth than short-term profits.

Patients with adenocarcinoma have a worse prognosis and usually more rapid deterioration.

We weren't there for the cutting-edge cuisine, but something much older and more fundamental.

For a more detailed explanation of how the game works, see my review from last summer, but here's a brief summary.

He is one of our more elusive presidents, not deeply rooted in any place or movement.

Still, advocates say an advantage of the software is that it gives these and other students more control in a course.

Yet a longer view is no more flattering to the president.

After several hours of venting, they didn't have a solution, but they were able to deal more calmly with one another.

He had a low slung serviceable tricycle that was much more stable than the original design with its high center gravity.

The following pages show more examples of parasites that spread by controlling their hosts.

It's because colleges can produce online courses much more cheaply while charging roughly the same tuition.

Parents tend to be more protective of their daughters than their sons because the familial costs of pregnancy are higher.

Now there will be more money to fund the fight against the infidels.

Following each of the gamma-ray bursts, it took more than half an hour for any neutrinos to arrive.

Scientists shouldn't have to serve the public good any more than poets or musicians.

European leaders need to think and act more boldly to stem the euro crisis.

More than unsuccessful models, there are unsuccessful mathematicians.

And it's making the world a vastly more dangerous place in the process.

Reading your own work objectively is a trick that some master more easily than others.

Together, they account for more than half of the country's trillion-dollar retail food market.

But experts blamed it on climate change, warning of more future droughts in areas traditionally blessed with water.

Aluminium can also be used for electric cables but much more has to be used for the same effect.

They must begin to provide more effective oversight, and the federal government should step in, too.

More and more firms are jumping on the wellness bandwagon.

As the climate shifts, many species will migrate to more favorable destinations, altering their natural range.

As for the rest, one solution might be for more managers to agree with investors on a global-equity index as a benchmark.

When the dielectric is charged the droplet can wet the surface more easily, and deforms.

So far the new, more robust tactics of the villagers have worked.

If that means more short-term market turbulence, so be it.

More thoughts from a professional photographer on overexposure and details in photos.

More students are borrowing to pay for college, and that is especially true at.

More recently, in attempting to overcome the economic crisis, the pace has picked up.

Stars blow a huge bubble in space, the space shuttle seems to drop from the sky, and more in the week's best space pictures.

Mounting evidence shows famous fossil more closely related to.

For more information and to watch a trailer, visit the film's official website.

Find more space for shrubs and flowers by getting rid of your lawn.

It also provoked a lot of response, some in the more traditional.

The delivery of medical care is changing as more young physicians take jobs with heath systems.

As a result, entrepreneurial ventures are becoming more popular than.

More importantly, from an evolutionary point of view, more of their children made it to maturity.

Coyotes may be becoming more aggressive and less fearful of humans-to the detriment of both species, scientists say.

Research confirms that women tend to apologize much more frequently than men do, but there's a curious twist as to why.

Create a palette for your home with the cool color of these beach souvenirs more.

Psychiatrists are talking less and prescribing more.

Students on large campuses are more likely to have.

Wild giant pandas may be much more common than previously thought, scientists announced this week.

As the obesity epidemic accelerates, more researchers are looking to prenatal risk factors.

Scientist recently discovered that durian makes it much more difficult for the human body to break down alcohol.

Use our step-by-step instructions to carve a more sophisticated pumpkin.

We want ever more powerful processors and bigger, brighter displays, but.

People who sleep less appear to eat more the next day.

With declining endowment values and other financial problems, more colleges are seeing their credit ratings.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the sorry saga of.

Evolution may have resulted in smarter people being more inclined to nontraditional values, a new study suggests.

At times it seems cloud computing has no more definition than the atmospheric phenomenon after which it is.

Humans have searched for extraterrestrial life for more than a century.

Some veggies are more suitable than others for container gardening.

It's a safe bet that global warming is causing more heat waves, climate experts say.

Health care that is fairer and more rational is also more affordable.

Marine reserves have proved to be even more effective than researchers hoped.

Careful updates make the kitchen more welcoming more.

The mystery of why galaxies formed early in the history of the universe give birth to more stars than modern ones has been solved.

Many colleges are looking more favorably on wealthier applicants as they make their admissions decisions.

But at each level of education, some people make more than the median for those at higher.

More enlightened regulators are no longer insisting that these services meet the rigid rules for formal banking.

See why great whites have more to fear from humans than vice versa.

Some philosophers today are doing more than thinking deeply.

Men were believed to be more sane, more motivated by reason, more in control of themselves emotionally.

Of all mankind's impacts on nature, perhaps none is more pervasive than the systematic elimination of large animals.

It costs more than three times as much to publish an.

Some think more of the savings should come from criminal work.

Take what you know of your branch and discover more than you ever thought possible.

New software aims to help buildings be more energy efficient no matter what the weather is.

My hope is that his exceptional body of work will draw more awareness to the problems that it exposes.

More on apps that can help you relax and get some sleep.

Luminescent and fluorescent bulbs might be more virtuous, but they shone more dully, and poets loved them less.

All the more reason why the should be utilzing proper custom made muiscian's ear protection while performing or listeing to music.

The more carotenoid-containing food a flamingo eats before molting and growing new feathers, the brighter its feathers will be.

Few subjects generate more interest, or controversy, than long-term care insurance.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to tag more than a few individuals in a herd, flock or swarm.

Building more housing in cities will make them more dense, but everyone will benefit.

Computer users are afflicted with more than back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome.

Doctors say hypnosis can help patients undergoing medical procedures feel more relaxed and in control.

In a season that has already seen eight debates, more are scheduled.

Federal officials are issuing more waivers to try to prevent some insurers and employers from dropping coverage.

It uses nothing more than the method of slicing and a comparison between the areas of a square and a circle.

Recent studies suggest that the more people drink, the more they exercise.

Men have been gaining skills and values that make them more capable of caring for themselves and for others.

Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on more debt.

See how to get the look of built-in floating shelves, with less cost and more flexibility.

Environmentalists have long hailed car-sharing as a more efficient, less polluting approach to urban driving.

More students seek counseling and take psychiatric medication.

Ten years later it sold more of them than any other company in the world.

With fall sports in full swing, concussions among student athletes are receiving more media attention than ever.

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noun

Hannah, 1745–1833, English writer on religious subjects.

Paul Elmer, 1864–1937, U.S. essayist, critic, and editor.

Sir Thomas, 1478–1535, English humanist, statesman, and author: canonized in 1935.

noun

Mossi (def. 2).

adjective

constituting or forming a large number; numerous: many people.

noting each one of a large number (usually followed by a or an): For many a day it rained.

noun

a large or considerable number of persons or things: A good many of the beggars were blind.

the many, the greater part of humankind.

pronoun

many persons or things: Many of the beggars were blind. Many were unable to attend.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English mani, meni, Old English manig, menig; akin to Old Saxon, Old High German manag, menig, Danish mange, Gothic manags

Related forms

o·ver·man·y, adjective

Synonyms
1. multifarious, multitudinous, myriad; divers, sundry, various. Many, innumerable, manifold, numerous imply the presence or succession of a large number of units. Many is a popular and common word for this idea: many times. Numerous, a more formal word, refers to a great number or to very many units: letters too numerous to mention. Innumerable denotes a number that is beyond count or, more loosely, that is extremely difficult to count: the innumerable stars in the sky. Manifold implies not only that the number is large but also that there is variety or complexity.

Antonyms
1. few, single.

plural noun Sociology.

folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group.

Origin:
1905–10; < Latin mōres, plural of mōs usage, custom

Synonyms
customs, conventions, practices.

adjective

great in quantity, measure, or degree: too much cake.

noun

a great quantity, measure, or degree: Much of his research was unreliable.

a great, important, or notable thing or matter: The house is not much to look at.

adverb

to a great extent or degree; greatly; far: to talk too much; much heavier.

nearly, approximately, or about: This is much like the others.

Idioms

make much of,

to treat, represent, or consider as of great importance: to make much of trivial matters.

to treat with great consideration; show fondness for; flatter.

much as,

almost the same as: We need exercise, much as we need nourishment.

however much: Much as she wanted to stay at the party, she had to leave.

not so much, Informal. (an expression of dismissive scorn, ambivalence, or skepticism): Attractive? Yes. Smart? Not so much. Is the world coming to an end? Yeah, not so much.

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English muche, moche, apocopated variant of muchel, mochel, Old English mycel; replacing Middle English miche(l), Old English micel great, much (compare mickle), cognate with Old Norse mikill, Gothic mikils, Greek mégal-, suppletive stem of mégas great

Can be confused: much, very (see usage note at very).

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World English Dictionary

more (mɔː)

—*determiner*
1.	a. much the comparative of many : more joy than you know; more pork sausages
	b. (as pronoun; functioning as sing or plural): he has more than she has; even more are dying every day
2.	a. additional; further: no more bananas
	b. (as pronoun; functioning as sing or plural): I can't take any more; more than expected
3.	more of to a greater extent or degree: we see more of Sue these days; more of a nuisance than it should be

—*adv*
4.	used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs: a more believable story; more quickly
5.	the comparative of much : people listen to the radio more now
6.	additionally; again: I'll look at it once more
7.	more or less
	a. as an estimate; approximately
	b. to an unspecified extent or degree: the party was ruined, more or less
8.	more so to a greater extent or degree
9.	neither more nor less than simply
10.	think more of to have a higher opinion of
11.	what is more moreover

More (mɔː)

—n
1.	Hannah. 1745--1833, English writer, noted for her religious tracts, esp The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
2.	Sir Thomas. 1478--1535, English statesman, humanist, and Roman Catholic Saint; Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII (1529--32). His opposition to the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon and his refusal to recognize the Act of Supremacy resulted in his execution on a charge of treason. In Utopia (1516) he set forth his concept of the ideal state. Feast day: June 22 or July 6

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Word Origin & History

many

O.E. monig, manig, from P.Gmc. *managaz (cf. O.S. manag, Swed. mången, O.Fris. manich, Du. menig, Ger. manch, Goth. manags), from PIE *monogho- (cf. O.C.S. munogu "much, many," O.Ir. menicc, Welsh mynych "frequent"). Pronunciation altered by influence of any (see manifold).

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O.E. mara (adj.) "greater, more," used as a comp. of micel "great" (see mickle), from P.Gmc. *maizon (cf. O.S. mera, O.N. meiri, O.Fris. mara, M.Du. mere, O.H.G. mero, Ger. mehr), from PIE *meis (cf. Avestan mazja "greater," O.Ir. mor "great," Gk. -moros "great," Oscan mais

"more"). O.E. used related ma "more" as adv., n., from P.Gmc. *mais; this became M.E. mo, but more in this sense began to predominate in later M.E.

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."

"You mean you can't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing."

"customs," 1907, from L. mores "customs, manners, morals" (see moral).

much

c.1200, worn down by loss of unaccented last syllable from M.E. muchel, from O.E. micel "great in amount or extent," from P.Gmc. *mekilaz, from PIE *meg- "great." For vowel evolution, see bury.

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Cultural Dictionary

mores [(mawr-ayz, mawr-eez)]

The customs and manners of a social group or culture. Mores often serve as moral guidelines for acceptable behavior but are not necessarily religious or ethical.

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