語言選擇:
免費網上英漢字典|3Dict

More

資料來源 : pyDict

更多多的,程度較大的,更大的多,更多

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

More \More\, n.
   1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds
      or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.

            And the children of Israel did so, and gathered,
            some more, some less.                 --Ex. xvi. 17.

   2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an
      additional or greater amount.

            They that would have more and more can never have
            enough.                               --L'Estrange.

            O! That pang where more than madness lies. --Byron.

   {Any more}.
      (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do
          not need any more.
      (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do
          not think any more about it.

   {No more}, not anything more; nothing in addition.

   {The more and less}, the high and low. [Obs.] --Shak. ``All
      cried, both less and more.'' --Chaucer.

More \More\, n. [AS. m[=o]r. See {Moor} a waste.]
   A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

More \More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m["o]hre carrot,
   OHG. moraha, morha.]
   A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

More \More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. {Most}.]
   [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS.
   m[=a]ra, and (as neut. and adv.) m[=a]; akin to D. meer, OS.
   m[=e]r, G. mehr, OHG. m[=e]ro, m[=e]r, Icel. meiri, meirr,
   Dan. meere, meer, Sw. mera, mer, Goth. maiza, a., mais, adv.,
   and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and
   magis, adv., more. [root]103. Cf. {Most}, {uch}, {Major}.]
   1. Greater; superior; increased; as:
      (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the
          like; with the singular.

                He gat more money.                --Chaucer.

                If we procure not to ourselves more woe.
                                                  --Milton.

   Note: More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection
         with some other qualifying word, -- a, the, this,
         their, etc., -- which now requires the substitution of
         greater, further, or the like, for more.

               Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse
               height, Do make them music for their more
               delight.                           --Spenser.

               The more part knew not wherefore they were come
               together.                          --Acts xix.
                                                  32.

               Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.
                                                  --Shak.
      (b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the
          plural.

                The people of the children of Israel are more
                and mighter than we.              --Ex. i. 9.

   2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more
      words to conquer.

            With open arms received one poet more. --Pope.

More \More\, v. t.
   To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower.

More \More\, adv.
   1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or
      degree.
      (a) With a verb or participle.

                Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement.
                                                  --Milton.
      (b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix
          -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable;
          more active; more sweetly.

                Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.

   Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the
         Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more
         brighter; more dearer.

               The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. In addition; further; besides; again.

            Yet once more, Oye laurels, and once more, Ye
            myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck
            your berries harsh and crude.         --Milton.

   {More and more}, with continual increase. ``Amon trespassed
      more and more.'' --2 Chron. xxxiii. 23.

   {The more}, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a
      reason already specified.

   {The more -- the more}, by how much more -- by so much more.
      ``The more he praised in himself, the more he seems to
      suspect that in very deed it was not in him.'' --Milton.

   {To be no more}, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no
      more; Troy is no more.

            Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor
            ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. --Byron.

Much \Much\, a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by
   {More}, and {Most}, from another root.] [OE. moche, muche,
   miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr.
   AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. ?, fem. ?, great, and Icel.
   mj["o]k, adv., much. [root]103. See {Mickle}.]
   1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has
      fallen; much time.

            Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and
            shalt gather but little in.           --Deut.
                                                  xxviii. 38.

   2. Many in number. [Archaic]

            Edom came out against him with much people. --Num.
                                                  xx. 20.

   3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

資料來源 : WordNet®

More
     n : English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from
         Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded;
         recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state [syn:
          {Thomas More}, {Sir Thomas More}]
依字母排序 : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z