Meaning of more | Babel Free

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1. A carrot; a parsnip.
   obsolete
2. singular of mores
   form-of, nonstandard, singular
3. The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.
4. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
   countable, uncountable
5. Alternative spelling of More (“the Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people”).
   alt-of, alternative
6. A root; stock.
   dialectal
7. A greater or additional quantity, number, degree, or amount: The more I see of you the more I like you.
8. A small village and civil parish (without a council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3491).
   countable, uncountable
9. A plant; flower; shrub.
   dialectal
10. (used with a pl. verb) A greater or additional number of persons or things: I opened only two bottles but more were in the refrigerator.
11. To a steadily increasing extent or degree: getting more and more worried.
12. Being an addition:added, additional, extra, fresh, further, new, other.
13. also; what is more important. I don't like the idea, and moreover, I think it's illegal. buitendien علاوَةً على ذلك، إضافَةً إلى ذلك също така além do mais kromě toho außerdem desuden επίσης, επιπλέονademás pealegi علاوه بر اين lisäksi de plusיתר על כן इसके अतिरिक्त što više azonfelül lebih-lebih ennfremur inoltre その上 게다가 be to turklāt lebih-lebih lagi bovendiendessutenponadto برسيره په دى além do mais în plus, mai mult кроме того; более того okrem toho razen tega štaviše dessutom ยิ่งกว่านั้...
14. any longer; nowadays. He doesn't go any more, but he used to go twice a week. meer, nie meer أبدا هذه الأيّام вече mais už ne mehr ikke længere πια, πλέονmás enam دیگر enempää plusיותר, עוד ज्यादा लंबा इत्यादि ne više többé nem sekarang, lagi ekki lengur più もはや 그 이상 daugiau, jau vairs [] lagi niet meerikke lengerjuż نور ډير mais deloc теперь; уже už viac nič več više inte längre อีกต่อไป artık, bir daha (不)再，現今 більше آجکل، اب chút nào nữa 再，又
15. increasingly. It's becoming more and more difficult to see. al hoe meer أكْثَر وأكْثَر все повече cada vez mais stále více immer mere og mere όλο και πιο πολύ cada vez más üha enam بیشتر و بیشتر entistä enemmän de plus en plusיותר ויותר अधिकाधिक više i više egyre inkább semakin meir og meir sempre più ますます 점점 더 vis (sunkiau) arvien vairāk semakin steeds meer mer og mer/-ere og –ere bardziej, coraz więcej لا زيات cada vez mais din ce în ce mai всё более и более stále viac bolj in bolj sve više...
16. approximately or almost. They've more or less finished the job; The distance is ten kilometres, more or less. min of meer تَقْريبا повече или по-малко mais ou menos víceméně, zhruba mehr oder weniger mere eller mindre περίπου, πάνω κάτω más o menos enam-vähem کمابيش enemmän tai vähemmän plus ou moinsפחות או יותר कमोबेश više manje többé-kevésbé kurang lebih nokkurn veginn, um það bil più o meno 大体 거의 daugmaž, daugiau ar mažiau daudzmaz lebih kurang min of meermer eller mindre, cirkamniej więce...
17. The more I see her, the more/less I like her. hoe meer, hoe meer/minder كلما كان أكثَر/ أقَل... كُلَّما كان أكْثَر/أقَل колкото повече толкова... quanto mais...mais/menos čím více ... tím více/méně je öfter-desto mehr/weniger jo mere ... desto mere όσο περισσότερο...τόσο περισσότερο, λιγότερο κτλ. cuanto más ... más/menos mida rohkem ... seda rohkem / vähem بيش از بيش mitä enemmän, sitä enemmän/vähemmän plus... plus/moins כְכָל ש... יוֹתֵר... जितना ज्यादा–उतना ही ज्यादा utoliko više / manje m...
18. moreover. He came home after midnight, and what's more, he was drunk. om alles te kroon الأكْثَر من هذا също така além disso nadto außerdem hvad værre er το πιο σημαντικό, και μάλιστα además, lo que es más peale selle بعلاوه sitä paitsi qui plus estיתר על כן और भी इससे अधिक महत्वपूर्ण što više (sőt) mi több lebih-lebih þar að auki, ennfremur per di più その上 더욱이 be to turklāt, bez tam tambahan lagi bovendiendessuten, i tilleggponadto, co więcej برسيره په دى além disso mai mult decât atât больше...

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Examples

“In the 1990s, smoking is considered dumb and a symbol of bad health habits, replete with the Surgeon General’s warnings. But even this belief is a social more, subject to time. Maybe some future society will consider smoking brave—a symbolic affront to Big Brother government—or cowardly—a cop-out to avoid some type of community service.”

“A value is a social more or norm manifested as a result of history and culture. It is a shared understanding among people of what is good, desirable or just.”

“Given that emotions such as shame, guilt, embarrassment and others involve a violation of a social more or rule, these are often called the social emotions, self-conscious emotions or secondary emotions.”

“In a seeming paradox, however, broken taboos may not always carry the heavy repercussions of violations of a social more.”

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