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Noun
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more Etymology 1
From (etyl) more, from (etyl) .
Determiner
( en determiner)
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= It's a gas
, passage=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.}}
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A punch in the gut
, passage=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.}}
Adverb
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To a greater degree or extent.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains
, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
* , Bk.XV, Ch.II:
- Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more .
(senseid) Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
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, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=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.}}
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= Geothermal Energy
, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=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.}}
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Derived terms
* more or less
* more so
* less is more
See also
* most
Etymology 2
From (etyl) more, ). More at (l).
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) a carrot; a parsnip.
(dialectal) a root; stock.
A plant.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) moren, from the noun. See above.
Verb
(mor)
To root up.
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