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alternative mo · alternative mo' · alternative moh · alternative moar

1. comparativecomparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

   There are more ways to do this than I can count.

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   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.

   2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020

2. comparativecomparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

   There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.

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   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.

   2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3

3. Additional; further.

   I want more soup.

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   If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.

   More people are arriving.

   I need more time.

4. Bigger, stronger, or more valuable.

   He is more than the ten years he spent behind bars at our local prison, as he is a changed man and his past does not define him.

alternative mo · alternative mo' · alternative moh · alternative moar

1. To a greater degree or extent.First known use 10ᵗʰc.

   More advanced students.

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   I like cake, but I like chocolate more.

   I could no more climb that than fly!

   I have more than carried out my obligation.

   I have no complaints and no more does my mom.

   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.

   2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, page 34

2. Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.First known use 13ᵗʰc.

   I am much more eager to help than you.

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   You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.

   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.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   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.

   2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4

3. poeticIn negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.First known use 10ᵗʰc.

   Than was there pees betwyxte thys erle and thys Aguaurs, and grete surete that the erle sholde never warre agaynste hym more.

   Then there was peace between the earl and Augustus, and a firm assurance that the earl should never again make war against him.

   1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XV, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC

4. dialectalhumorousproscribedUsed in addition to an inflected comparative form.First known use 13ᵗʰc.; standard until 18ᵗʰc.

   I was more better at English than you.

alternative mo · alternative mo' · alternative moh · alternative moar

1. A greater number or quantity (of something).

   I'd love to see more of Bob and Linda.

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   We’re running out of napkins. I should have bought more.

   There isn’t enough salt in this. You need to add more.

2. An extra or additional quantity (of something).

   There aren’t many people here yet, but more should be arriving soon.

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   Speaking about Canada, where I teach, while the canon remains the raison d’etre of the discipline, some changes have come about and more are in the offing.

   2016, Arun P. Mukherjee, “English Studies in Contemporary India”, in M. Sridhar, Sunita Mishra, editors, Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates, page 254

alternative mo · alternative mo' · alternative moh · alternative moar

1. comparativecomparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)

   Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.

2. comparativecomparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

plural mores · alternative dialectal moor

1. obsoleteA carrot; a parsnip.
2. dialectalA root; stock.
3. dialectalA plant; flower; shrub.

present singular third person mores · participle present moring · participle past mored · past mored

1. transitiveTo root up.

plural mores

1. nonstandardsingularsingular of mores

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

   2008, Barak A. Salmoni, Paula Holmes-Eber, “[Dimension Five – Belief Systems] Some Features of Belief Systems”, in Operational Culture for the Warfighter: Principles and Applications, Quantico, Va.: Marine Corps University Press, →ISBN, part II (Five Operational Culture Dimensions for Planning and Execution), page 189

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   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.

   1996, Michael J. Bugeja, “[Influence] The Impact of Social Mores”, in Living Ethics: Developing Values in Mass Communication, Boston, Mass.: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, part I (Building Your Ethical Base), page 15

   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.

   2004, Robert S. Pomeroy, John E. Parks, Lani M. Watson, “[The MPA management effectiveness indicators] The socio-economic indicators”, in How Is Your MPA Doing? A Guidebook of Natural and Social Indicators for Evaluating Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness (IUCN Programme on Protected Areas), Gland; Cambridge: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, →ISBN, page 122

   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.

   2008, David R. Caruso, “Emotions and the Ability Model of Emotional Intelligence”, in Robert J. Emmerling, Vinod K. Shanwal, Manas K[umar] Mandal, editors, Emotional Intelligence: Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives, New York, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 7

alternative Mòoré · alternative Mooré · alternative Moré · alternative Moshi · alternative Mossi · alternative Moore

1. The Volta-Congo language of the Mossi people, mainly spoken in part of Burkina Faso.

plural Mores · alternative Morus

1. countableuncountableA surname from Scottish Gaelic.
2. countableuncountableA small village and civil parish (without a council) in south-west Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO3491).