different between more vs opposite

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mô, IPA^(key): /?m??/
• (General American) enPR: môr, IPA^(key): /?m??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: m?r, IPA^(key): /?mo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?mo?/
• (non-rhotic, dough-door merger, AAVE) IPA^(key): /?mo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: moor, Moor, Moore (all three only in accents with the pour–poor merger); maw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger); mow (non-rhotic accents with the dough-door merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English more, from Old English m?ra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?- (“many”).

Cognate with Scots mair (“more”), Saterland Frisian moor (“more”), West Frisian mear (“more”), Dutch meer (“more”), Low German mehr (“more”), German mehr (“more”), Danish mere (“more”), Swedish mera (“more”), Norwegian Bokmål mer (“more”), Norwegian Nynorsk meir (“more”), Icelandic meiri, meira (“more”).

Alternative forms

• (informal or nonstandard) mo, mo'
• (Internet slang) moar

Determiner

more

1. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
3. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
4. Additional; further.

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

5. 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.

Antonyms

• fewer
• less

Derived terms

• more haste, less speed
• morefold
• moreness

Translations

Adverb

more (not comparable)

1. To a greater degree or extent. [from 10^thc.]
3. Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs. [from 13^thc.]
4. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more. [from 10^thc.]

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

5. (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form. [from 13^thc.; standard until 18^thc.]

Derived terms

• more or less
• more so

Translations

Pronoun

more

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

   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.

Derived terms

See also

• most

Etymology 2

From Middle English more, moore (“carrot, parsnip”) from Old English more, moru (“carrot, parsnip”) from Proto-West Germanic *morh?, from Proto-Germanic *murh? (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“edible herb, tuber”).

Akin to Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), Old High German morha, moraha (“root of a plant or tree”) (German Möhre (“carrot”), Morchel (“mushroom, morel”)). More at morel.

Alternative forms

• moor (dialectal)

Noun

more (plural mores)

1. (obsolete) A carrot; a parsnip.
2. (dialectal) A root; stock.
3. A plant; flower; shrub.

Etymology 3

From Middle English moren, from the noun. See above.

Verb

more (third-person singular simple present mores, present participle moring, simple past and past participle mored)

1. (transitive) To root up.

Anagrams

• Mero, Omer, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, moer, omer

Afrikaans

Adverb

more

1. Alternative form of môre

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mor, ore

Etymology

According to Orel from the aoristic form of marr without a clear sense development. It could also be a remnant of a grammatical structure of a lost substrate language. It is the source of same interjection found in all Balkan languages.

Interjection

more

1. vocative particle used in a call to a man.

Usage notes

Can be placed before or after the noun, whereas bre can only be placed after.

Descendants

• ? Ottoman Turkish: ????? (more)

Related terms

• moj

References

Basque

Noun

more inan

1. purple

See also

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mor?]

Noun

more

1. vocative singular of mor

Danish

Etymology

Derived from moro (“fun”), which may be a compound of mod, from Old Norse móðr (“mind”) and ro, from ró (“rest”).

Verb

more (imperative mor, infinitive at more, present tense morer, past tense morede, perfect tense har moret)

1. To amuse, entertain

Derived terms

• morskab c
• morsom
• morsomhed c

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin mora.

Pronunciation

Noun

more m or f (plural moren, diminutive moretje n)

1. The unit of length (short or long) in poetic metre

Anagrams

• moer, roem, Rome

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/
• Homophones: maure, maures, mores, mort, morts

Noun

more f (plural mores)

1. (phonology) mora

Adjective

more (plural mores)

1. (dated) Alternative spelling of maure

Related terms

• More m

Anagrams

• orme
• Rome

Further reading

• “more” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?re

Noun

more f

1. plural of mora

Verb

more

1. (slang) third-person singular indicative present of morire

Synonyms

• muore

Anagrams

• mero
• orme
• remo, Remo, remò
• Rome

Latin

Noun

m?re

1. ablative singular of m?s

References

• more in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Latvian

Noun

more f (5 declension, masculine form: moris)

1. (archaic) black woman, blackamoor, black moor

Declension

Maori

Noun

more

1. taproot

Synonyms

• t?more

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mare

Etymology

From Old English m?ra.

Determiner

more

1. more

Descendants

• English: more
• Scots: mair

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

more (present tense morer, past tense mora or moret, past participle mora or moret)

1. amuse, entertain

Old English

Alternative forms

• m?ru

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *morh?, from Proto-Germanic *murh? (“carrot”). Cognate with Old Saxon moraha (“carrot”), Old High German moraha (German Möhre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?.re/

Noun

m?re f

1. carrot
2. parsnip

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: more
  • English: more
• ? Welsh: moron

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.?i/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.?e/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?m?.??/

Verb

more

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of morar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of morar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of morar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of morar

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mô?re/
• Hyphenation: mo?re

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *mo?e, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Noun

m?re n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. sea
2. (by extension, preceded by preposition na) seaside or shore (any area or place near the sea where the sea is seen as the defining feature)

3. (figuratively) a vast expanse or quantity of something, usually detrimental or unwelcome

Declension

Synonyms

• (Croatia, archaic) morje

Derived terms

• mòrsk?

See also

• Category:sh:Seas

Etymology 2

From Greek ???? (moré).

Interjection

m?re (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Croatia, Kajkavian, colloquial) Alternative form of može
2. (Serbia) when spoken sharply, asserts that the speaker is stronger or older or more powerful than the addressee, sometimes expressing contempt or superiority
   • 1824, recorded by Vuk Stefanovi? Karadži?, Narodne srpske pjesme:

     »More, Marko, ne ori drumova!« / »More, Turci, ne gaz’te oranja!«

     »More, Marko, don’t plow up our roads!« / »More, Turks, don’t walk on my plowing!«

3. (Serbia) when not spoken sharply, functions as a term of endearment or generic intensifier, cf. bre

Usage notes

More is most often used in addressing a single male, more rarely when addressing groups of males, and more rarely still when addressing females.

Related terms

• bre

References

• Tomislav Mareti?, editor (1911-1916) , “m?re 1”, in Rje?nik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 7, Zagreb: JAZU, page 4

Noun

more (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of mora:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Verb

more (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of moriti

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *mo?e, from Proto-Indo-European *móri.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?r?/

Noun

more n (genitive singular mora, nominative plural moria, genitive plural morí, declension pattern of srdce)

1. A body of salt water, sea.
2. (colloquial) A huge amount, plenty (+genitive)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• more in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mo?e/, [?mo.?e]

Verb

more

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of morar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of morar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of morar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of morar.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) (standard) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /?m?r?/
  • (North Wales) (colloquial) IPA^(key): /?m?ra/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?mo?r?/, /?m?r?/

Noun

more

1. Nasal mutation of bore (“morning”).

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• opposit (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French oposite, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of opp?n? (“I oppose”). Compare oppose.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p?z?t/, /??p?s?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??p(?)s?t/, /??p?z?t/

Adjective

opposite (not comparable)

1. Located directly across from something else, or from each other.

   She saw him walking on the opposite side of the road.

2. (botany) Of leaves and flowers, positioned directly across from each other on a stem.
3. Facing in the other direction.

   They were moving in opposite directions.

4. Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things.

   He is attracted to the opposite sex.

5. Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic.

   • Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epick poem.

   • , Book III

     Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations.

Derived terms

• opposite sex

Translations

Noun

opposite (plural opposites)

1. Something opposite or contrary to something else.
2. A person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.

   She is the opposite of her ex-boyfriend who abused her both physically and verbally nearly every day for five years. She now works as an advocate and supportive listener for others who have endured abusive relationships.

3. An opponent.
4. An antonym.

   "Up" is the opposite of "down".

5. (mathematics) An additive inverse.

Derived terms

• opposites attract
• polar opposite

Translations

Adverb

opposite (not comparable)

1. In an opposite position.

   I was on my seat and she stood opposite.

   Where's the bus station? -Over there, just opposite.

Translations

Preposition

opposite

1. Facing, or across from.

   • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

2. In a complementary role to.

3. (television) On another channel at the same time.

   The game show Just Men! aired opposite The Young and the Restless on CBS.

Translations

See also

• apposite

Latin

Adjective

opposite

1. vocative masculine singular of oppositus

References

• opposite in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Middle French

Adjective

opposite m or f (plural opposites)

1. opposite (located directly across from something else, or from each other)

Noun

opposite f (plural opposites)

1. opposite side

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (opposeur)