More vs Mort - What's the difference?
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(senseid) Used alone to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
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To root up.
Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
* Sir Walter Scott
(UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
A great quantity or number.
* Charles Dickens
(internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
(slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
* Ben Jonson
As nouns the difference between more and mort
is that more is tomorrow while mort is roach; a small fish.more
English
(wikipedia more)Etymology 1
From (etyl) more, from (etyl) .Determiner
(en determiner)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.}}
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
(-)Ian Sample
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.}}
- Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more .
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Derived terms
* more or less * more so * less is moreSee also
* mostEtymology 2
From (etyl) more, ). More at (l).Etymology 3
From (etyl) moren, from the noun. See above.Verb
(mor)Statistics
*mort
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- The sportsman then sounded a treble mort .
Derived terms
* mort cloth * mort stoneEtymology 2
Compare Icelandic (margt), neuter of (margr), "many".Noun
- There was a mort of merrymaking.
Etymology 3
Shortening of (mortal).Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* immort English clippingsEtymology 4
Uncertain.Etymology 5
Noun
(en noun)- Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
