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Definition: More Than |
More ThanAdjective1. Greater in number relative to something else; "more than one person stood up". 2. (comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree; "more land"; "more support"; "more rain fell"; "more than a gallon". Adverb1. Comparing quantity or quality; "by the time she was 4 she was more than half her father's height". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Above, More than, Preceding. "It is above a week since I heard from my brother." We may say "above the earth," "above the housetops," but in the preceding sentence it is better to say, "It is more than a week since I heard from my brother." "In the above paragraph he quotes from Horace." Say, "In the preceding or foregoing paragraph," etc. The awkwardness of the use of the word above becomes very apparent when the line in which it occurs is found at the top of a page, and the passage to which reference is made appears at the bottom of the previous page. Usage: Over, More than. "There were not over thirty persons present." Over is incorrect; above has some sanction; but more than, is the best, and should be used. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: More ThanSynonyms: more(a) (adj), to a higher degree (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: less(a) (adj), less than (adv), to a lesser degree (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benevolence | Phrase: " act a charity sometimes "; " a tender heart, a will inflexible "; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; " kind words are more than coronets "; quando amigo pide no hay manana; " the social smile, the sympathetic tear ". |
Dearness | Unreasonable, extravagant, exorbitant, extortionate; overpriced, more than it's woth. |
Excitation | Exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting; Verb: impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing; (painful); telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow. |
Improbability | Rare; (infrequent); unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable, inimaginable; incredible; more than doubtful; strange, bizarre (uncomformable). |
Latency Implication | Noun: {ant. } latency, inexpression; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery, cabala, anagoge; silence; (taciturnity); concealment; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le dessous des cartes, undercurrent. |
Multitude | Thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end of, no end to; cum multis aliis; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty as blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, and heaven knows what; endless; (infinite). |
Pain | Intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot. |
Plurality | Adjective: plural, more than one, upwards of; some, several, a few; certain; not alone. |
Redundancy | Noun: redundancy, redundance; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation; nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion; (plenty); repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share; more than enough; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener; turgescence; (expansion); overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow; inundation; (water); avalanche. |
Smallness | Almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, close upon; peu s'en faut, near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than. about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be the same, be little more or less. no ways, no way, no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of means; on no account, at no hand. |
Strength | Resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable, unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable; incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all powerful, all sufficient; sovereign. |
Superiority | Adjective: superior, greater, major, higher; exceeding; Verb:great; distinguished, ultra; vaulting; more than a match for. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: More Than |
| Specialty definitions using "more than": There's More Than One Way To Do It. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "more than": Transhumanize. (references) |
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Screenplays | Michael was the most sexually experienced of us, which means he had kissed a girl on more than two occasions (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) The only reason I ain't signing is cause you've turned into some hoity toity yankee bitch and I'd like nothing more than to piss you off (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) After what happened to Luther, I don't think I can get more than two, three hundred guys (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward) I like to drink wine more than I used to. (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.) Come on, take a bag. I took a bag home last night, and it cost me a lot more than ten quid (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) | |
Lyrics | More than your lover (More Than A Woman; performing artist: Aaliyah) I will love you more than that (More Than That; performing artist: Backstreet Boys) Telling me more than any words could say (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner) Taking more than her share (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC) And I got more than I need (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Clever | You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. (references; author: Bob Hope) It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. (references; author: Mark Twain) Give a grateful man more than he asks. (references; author: Portuguese Proverb) One picture is worth more than ten thousand words. (references; author: Chinese Proverb) Love God more than you fear Hell. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | More Than a School (1974) He Got More Than He Bargained For (1899) A Darkness More Than Night (2003) Marie Curie: More Than Meets the Eye (1997) Rocco More Than Ever Party (1997) | |
Song Titles | More Than I Can Say (performing artist: Leo Sayer) | |
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Pictured here is a large group of adults and children sitting around a swimming pool. They are members of a national group called the Candlelighters, which gives emotional support and practical advice to parents, patients and siblings of cancer victims. This group is in Las Vegas, Nevada and is one of more than 100 nationwide. The Candlelighters headquarters is in Washington, DC. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | Since the program's establishment in 1951, EIS officers have worked on more than 10,000 studies and investigations. Each year, EIS officers assist with approximately 100 investigations requested by states and other countries. Credit: CDC. | ||
The CDC moved its location to Clifton Road after construction was completed in 1960. In 1947, Emory University donated the land on Clifton Road for the new CDC headquarters, but construction did not begin for more than a decade. Credit: CDC. | This series of images, which spans more than five days beginning at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16, ... Credit: NASA. | ||
After more than three years of inactivity, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Where the Volga River flows into the Caspian Sea, it creates an extensive delta. The Volga Delta is comprised of more than 500 channels, and sustains the most productive fishing grounds in Eurasia. Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland's total coastline. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | View from the top of the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge looking down onto the deck of the bridge. The surface of the water is more than 700 feet below. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
![]() | The record bonito, Tuna Club 1908, caught with rod and reel. This fish, which weighed 22 pounds, fought for more than an hour. Note angler's belt with socket for rod butt. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207 Plate II. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | The Finney Creek restoration project placed over 750 logs into more than 80 log jams in upper Finney Creek. the logs helped to trap gravel size sediments behind the jams and create a more narrow and deeper creek. This resulted in lowering water temperatures to provide more favorable spawning conditions. Finney Creek once provided habitat for all salmon species except sockeye. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Brigham Young | Love the giver more than the gift. |
Edmund Burke | Patience will achieve more than force. |
John Donne | More than kisses letters mingle souls. |
John Dryden | All empire is no more than power in trust. |
Oliver Goldsmith | Fear guides more than gratitude. |
Portuguese Proverb | Give a grateful man more than he asks. |
Publilius Syrus | Never promise more than you can perform. |
Robert E. Lee | Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain. |
Thomas Fuller | We have all forgot more than we remember. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | No scutage not aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall not be levied more than a reasonable aid. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | And indeed it was a foolish thing, as well as dishonest, to hoard up more than he could make use of. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 4: Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2007 | No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Thus, to the German philosophers of the eighteenth century, the demands of the first French Revolution were nothing more than the demands of "Practical Reason" in general, and the utterance of the will of the revolutionary French bourgeoisie signified in their eyes the law of pure Will, of Will as it was bound to be, of true human Will generally. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The divisions must not be grouped under more than two army corps headquarters staffs. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | We need something more than a fixed Law of Nature to settle which nerve shall carry it. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | This faith, more than anything else, steals the pith and availability out of whatever enterprise he may dream of undertaking |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There he saw the star more than ever, and Savigny and Gans less than ever |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And, more than that, I can remember even your greatgrandfather, old John Stephen Dedalus, and a fierce old fireeater he was. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | No more than with my soul I mourn for yours |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The bank is something more than men, I tell you. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This is the court style, and I found it to be more than matter of form |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It affects men more than women. (references) | |
Symptoms rarely last more than 3 weeks. (references) | ||
Do not keep eggs warm for more than 2hours. (references) | ||
Business | The store had more than 300 employees. (references) | |
Recycled water costs more than fresh water. (references) | ||
The procedure can take more than ten years. (references) | ||
Children | Russia | These children stay in COVINA for no more than 30 days. (references) |
Mauritania | Local NGO's estimate that there are more than 250 street children. (references) | |
New Zealand | Applications to family court included protection of more than 33,000 children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Police detained more than 20 members of the organization. (references) |
Iraq | Citizens may not make more than two trips abroad annually. (references) | |
Mauritania | Some arrived more than 10 years ago and are employed fully. (references) | |
Economic History | Rwanda | Annual growth rate: More than 3%. (references) |
Switzerland | Many Swiss speak more than one language. (references) | |
Philippines | U.S. market share is more than 26 percent. (references) | |
Human Rights | Gambia | Credible eyewitnesses saw more than seven youths injured. (references) |
Cameroon | Some cells built for fifteen persons hold more than fifty. (references) | |
Equatorial Guinea | Political detentions seldom lasted more than a few months. (references) | |
Indigenous People | New Zealand | Maori inmates constitute more than half the prison population. (references) |
Bangladesh | Bengalis later set fire to more than 100 houses belonging to tribals. (references) | |
Malaysia | Laws allowing condemnation and purchase of land do not require more than perfunctory notifications in newspapers to which indigenous people may have no access. (references) | |
Minorities | Russia | The multiethnic population is made up of more than 100 national groups. (references) |
Hungary | The unemployment rate for Roma is estimated to be 70 percent, more than 10 times the national average. (references) | |
Ecuador | It estimates that Afro-Ecuadorians account for more than 1 million persons, or about 9 percent of the total population. (references) | |
Political Economy | Djibouti | Presidents cannot be reelected more than twice. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The conflict has claimed more than 64,000 lives. (references) | |
THAILAND | Patent examinations can take more than five years. (references) | |
Political Rights | Honduras | Of 10,000 Hondurans who registered to vote abroad, slightly more than 1,000 voted. (references) |
Taiwan | The People First Party more than doubled its representation in the LY, winning 46 seats. (references) | |
Pakistan | Thirty-five women, more than ever before, campaigned for seats in the 1997 national elections. (references) | |
Trade | India | Input-output norms have been specified for more than 4200 items. (references) |
Brazil | The product registration process often takes more than one year. (references) | |
Kenya | It normally does not finance more than 25 percent of the project cost. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | A general business call lasts no more than one hour. (references) |
Romania | Issuance of this passport may take more than one day. (references) | |
France | One could pay less or a great deal more than this $234 amount. (references) | |
Women | Swaziland | In traditional marriages, a man may take more than one wife. (references) |
Kenya | FIDA has trained more than 800 police officers about gender issues. (references) | |
Guatemala | In March MINUGUA reported that more than half of indigenous women cannot read. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Belarus | BYCWO receives more than 100 inquiries a month. (references) |
Belize | Most salaried workers receive more than the minimum wage. (references) | |
China | Cao was held for more than 200 days, and released in July. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | Or terrible stories of things that are happening to them, and they're just wallowing in this. And there's more than one that does that. |
Conan O'Brien | I like Buster Keaton a lot more than Chaplin. And the Marx Brothers were probably my favorite of the older era. |
Dennis Miller | People get pissed off when their microwave dinner takes more than three minutes to cook. |
Earl Charles Spencer | Well, I always make it clear that they're more than welcome to ask anything or say anything or whatever with me, and I think that's a healthy way for it to be. |
Mariah Carey | I'm not wacko. But my point is already made. I mean, we're all a little wacko sometimes, and if we think we're not, maybe we are more than we know. |
Priscilla Presley | Right. So maybe now, more than ever, if there was to be anyone that understood my situation, it would be my daughter. |
Richard Armey | We could have done more. We should have done more. But Tom Daschle was dedicated to the proposition that he should never do more than the least he should. And we just simply couldn't get more past the Senate. |
Rudy Giuliani | Some of the margins of victory were larger than I thought they would be. You know in a number of the races that at least I was looking at, it seemed to me they were maybe two, three points more than I thought they would be. |
Rush Limbaugh | Clearly, it is more than just bad citizenship to disclose classified information to the media. |
Tim McGraw | Probably not as much as she's been a housewife when I've been out working. It's never more than a couple days if we have to do it. |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government, more than of air, soil, or climate, for themselves or their children! |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Lawrence and the Lakes which may prove more than equivalent to the loss sustained by the discrimination made to favor the trade of the northern colonies with the West Indies. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | This signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Getting America moving But a stronger nation and economy require more than a balanced Budget. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Today more than half of the high school graduates go on to college. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | There is nothing I want more than to see the day come when I do not have to write any of those letters. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | In areas of peaceful competition with the Soviet Union, we will continue to more than hold our own. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | A man who has devoted more than half of his life to serving his country. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | America is far more than a place. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | When I spoke to Congress more than a year ago, I said that those who harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves. |
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Expressions using "more than": balance with banks for periods of more than one month ♦ bite off more than one can chew ♦ have more than one string to one's bow ♦ i've had more than enough of that business! ♦ jump more than ♦ liabilities to banks for periods of more than one month ♦ more than a match for ♦ more than enough ♦ more than flesh and blood can bear ♦ more than generously ♦ more than is right ♦ more than it's woth ♦ more than necessary ♦ no more than ♦ not more than ♦ quality matters more than quantity ♦ star knob with more than four projections ♦ storage of more than one year ♦ There's More Than One Way To Do It. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "more than"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | oor (about, above, after, behind, concerning, ear, more, on, over, upon). (various references) | |
Arabic | أكثر من. (various references) | |
Chinese | 以上 (above, over, the above-mentioned), 不止 (incessantly, not limited to, without end). (various references) | |
Czech | vrchovatou mìrou (more than generously), víc než dost (enough and to spare, more than enough), okousnout si příliš velké sousto (bite off more than one can chew), ne víc než (no more than). (various references) | |
Danish | man kan undgaa denne sekundaere sejgring af kulstof ved en foroegelse af afkoelingshastigheden og af kornstoerrelsen til udover sejgringsafstanden (the segregation of carbon during secondary banding can be prevented by increasing the cooling rate and coarsening the grain size to more than the segregation distance), i minegallerierne daempes forplantningen af radioboelger med en frekvens paa mere end 50 mHz dl kraftigt p.g.a. bjergarternes ringe ledningsevne (because of the bad conductivity of the rocks, the frequency waves of more than 50 mHz are greatly attenuated during propagation in mine roadways), arbejdsulykker med mere end 3 fraværsdage til følge (accident with more than 3 days'absence, non-fatal accident with more than 3 days'absence), civile statsborgere,der opholder sig i udlandet i en periode,der overstiger ét år (national civilians staying abroad for a period of more than one year), da overfladelagene af pladen har tendens til at forlaenge sig mere end det indre,opstaar der trykspaendinger i dem (as the surface layers of the sheet tend to elongate more than the internal zones a compressive stress is set up), de faste bruttoinvesteringer udgoer vaerdien af varige goder,bestemt til andet end militaere formaal,som har en vaerdi paa mere end ca.100 ECU,som erhverves af en hjemmehoerende produktionsenhed med det formaal at blive anvendt i produktionsprocessen i en (each of more than about 100 ECU in value, gross fixed capital formation represents the value of durable goods intended for non-military purposes, including the value of any services embodied in fixed capital goods, which are acquired by resident producer units in order to be used for a period of more than one year in their process of production), hvert medlem af raadet kan kun fra ét af de oevrige medlemmer modtage fuldmagt til at stemme (any member of the Council may act on behalf of not more than one other member), hvis der er flere ansøgere (if there is more than one applicant), i blaesere,som udoever et hoejt tryk,udvikles der kompressionvarme (fans producing more than average pressure may occasion developing heat of compression), alle personer,der befinder sig eller har til hensigt at befinde sig inden for landets oekonomiske omraade i en periode,der overstiger ét aar,betragtes som havende fast bopael (on the economic territory of the country for a period of more than one year is regarded as permanently settled there, or intends to stay), i skyggemaske-billedroeret afskaeres mere end 80% af elektronerne i den afsoegende elektronstraale af skyggemasken, saaledes at kun den resterende procentdel naar billedskaermen (in the shadow ώ-mask type of picture tube more than 8O% of the electrons in the scanning beam are intercepted by the mask, leaving only the remaining small percent to travel to the phosphor screen), søgsmål om krænkelse af flere varemærker (civil action on the basis of more than one trade mark), stjernehåndtag (palm grip hand knob, star knob with more than four projections), tandfyldning med flerrodsbehandling (filling with devitalization of more than one root), ved blokkene paa mere end 20 tons er sedimentationen endnu tydeligere:V-formede lag af kugleformede dendritter er skudt ind imellem lagene af stoerre,ligeaksede dendritter (in large ingots of more than 20 tons the sedimentation is even more distinct, with V-layers of rounded dendrites sandwiched between layers of larger equiaxed dendrites), i forhold til perlitomraadet forskudt mod laengere holdetider (the bainite reaction is retarded more than the pearlite reaction). (various references) | |
Dutch | meer dan (above, over), ruim (above, extensive, hold, over, spacious, vast, wide, widely), over (abiding, about, above, across, after, away, behind, beyond, concerning, in, left, left over, on, on the other side of, over, past, remaining, upon), boven (above, on top, over, overhead, upstairs). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pli ol (above, over). (various references) | |
Finnish | yli (above, over), enemmän kuin (upwards of). (various references) | |
French | plus que. (various references) | |
German | erst recht (more than ever), übergenug (more than enough). (various references) | |
Greek | ταμιευτήρας υπερετήσιας βάσης (storage of more than one year), αστική αγωγή επί τη βάσει περισσότερων του ενός σημάτων (civil action on the basis of more than one trade mark), αστεροειδής λαβή (palm grip hand knob, star knob with more than four projections), αξίες επί προθεσμία (balance with banks for periods of more than one month, due from banks at term, due from banks on time, due from banks-more than one month, due from banks-terms, term deposit with banks, time deposit with banks), αν περισσότερα του ενός πρόσωπα καταθέσουν αίτηση (if there is more than one applicant), είμαι πολύ καλύτερος από (be more than a match for), ταμιευτήρας υπερετήσιας ρύθμισης (storage of more than one year), είναι αρκετά ικανός να (he is more than up to), τα σωματίδια που έχουν διάμετρο πάνω από 2μ,αποτίθενται πάνω στη βλεννώδη μεμβράνη και παρασύρονται από βλεννο-βλεφαροειδή ρεύ-ματα,έως το (particles which have more than 2 diameter are deposited on the mucous lining and are transported through the mucociliary flows to the oesophagus and swallowed), οι εξαεριστήρες που εργάζονται σε υψηλές πιέσεις παράγουν κάποια ποσότητα θερμότητας συμπίεσης (fans producing more than average pressure may occasion developing heat of compression), οι ακαθάριστες επενδύσεις πάγιου κεφαλαίου αντιπροσωπεύουν την αξία των διαρκών αγαθών που προορίζονται για μη στρατιωτικούς σκοπούς,με (each of more than about 100 ECU in value, which are acquired by resident producer units in order to be used for a period of more than one year in their process of production), ο δευτερογενής διαφορισμός του άνθρακα είναι δυνατόν να αποτραπεί με αύξηση της ταχύτητας ψύξης και του βαθμού ανάπτυξης του μεγέθους των (the segregation of carbon during secondary banding can be prevented by increasing the cooling rate and coarsening the grain size to more than the segregation distance), απαιτήσεις επί προθεσμία από άλλες τράπεζες (balance with banks for periods of more than one month, due from banks at term, due from banks on time, due from banks-more than one month, due from banks-terms, term deposit with banks, time deposit with banks), υπερτερώ (be more than a match for, beat, best, cap, outclass, outmatch, outrival, outweigh, overmatch, surpass), κάθε μέλος του Συμβουλίου δύναται να αντιπροσωπεύσει ένα μόνο από τα λοιπά μέλη (any member of the Council may act on behalf of not more than one other member), καθώς τα επιφανειακά στρώματα του ελάσματος τείνουν να επιμηκυνθούν περισσότερο από τις εσωτερικές ζώνες,δημιουργούνται τάσεις θλίψης (as the surface layers of the sheet tend to elongate more than the internal zones a compressive stress is set up), ένα άτομο που διαμένει,ή σκοπεύει να διαμείνει,στην οικονομική επικράτεια της χώρας για περίοδο τουλάχιστον ενός έτους,θεωρείται ότι είνα (on the economic territory of the country for a period of more than one year is regarded as permanently settled there), προγραμματισμός πολλαπλής ακολουθίας σπονδύλων (concurrent processing of more than one message(or similar service-request)by an application program, multithreading), προθεσμιακές (balance with banks for periods of more than one month, due from banks at term, due from banks on time, due from banks-more than one month, due from banks-terms, term deposit with banks, time deposit with banks), Στη λυχνία εικόνας τύπου μάσκας-σκιάς περισσότερα από 80% των ηλεκτρο-νίων στη δέσμη σάρωσης ανακόπτονται από τη μάσκα,αφήνοντας μόνο το υπό (in the shadow ώ-mask type of picture tube more than 8O% of the electrons in the scanning beam are intercepted by the mask), πολύ περισσότερο από (far more than), υποχρεώσεις προς άλλες τράπεζες καθορισμένου χρόνου (banks'account on term, due to bank at term, due to banks at fixed dates, due to banks on time, due to banks-more than one month, due to banks-term, liabilities to banks for periods of more than one month, time deposit from banks), υποχρεώσεις υπό προθεσμία στην τράπεζα (banks'account on term, due to bank at term, due to banks at fixed dates, due to banks on time, due to banks-more than one month, due to banks-term, liabilities to banks for periods of more than one month, time deposit from banks), ημεδαποί ιδιώτες που διαμένουν στο εξωτερικό για περίοδο τουλάχιστον ενός έτους (national civilians staying abroad for a period of more than one year), η βεανιτική αντίδραση επιβραδύνεται περισσότερο της περλιτικής (the bainite reaction is retarded more than the pearlite reaction), η ιζηματοποίηση είναι ακόμη πιο ευκρινής στην περίπτωση πλινθωμάτων άνω των 20 τόννων:στρώματα σχήματος V που αποτελούνται από σφαιροειδεί (in large ingots of more than 20 tons the sedimentation is even more distinct, with V-layers of rounded dendrites sandwiched between layers of larger equiaxed dendrites), επί προθεσμία (at fixed dates, at term, for periods of more than one month, more than one month, on time, time-), πηγαίνω για μαλλί και βγαίνω κουρεμένος (get more than one bargained). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מן (because, from, of, out of, since, than), מכ"י (more than enough, since, whereas), יותר מן- (than, upward of). (various references) | |
Hungarian | több mint (above, in excess of, upwards of), több (better, better than fifty years ago, he spoke for over an hour, moe, more, multi, parti-coloured, pluri, plus, rising of ten thousand, several, some, to be on the shady side of thirty, to be on the wrong side of thirty). (various references) | |
Indonesian | doang (no more than, only). (various references) | |
Italian | oltre (above, across, as well as, beside, beyond, by, farther, further, in addition to, longer, more, on the other side of, onward, over, past, up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 有余 , 余 (over), 以上 (exceeding, greater than, over, this is all), 以上 (above, and up, as long as, beyond, exceeding, greater than, over, since, the above-mentioned, the end, this is all). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いじょう (aberration, abnormality, above, accident, and up, as long as, assignment, beyond, change, disorder, enclosure, exceeding, greater than, over, since, something wrong, strangeness, surrounding, the above-mentioned, the end, this is all, transfer, transferring to), ゆうよ (deferment, postponement), よ (age, generation, over, society, world). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oremay anthay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mais do que. (various references) | |
Romanian | m-am sãturat pânã peste cap de povestea asta (i've had more than enough of that business), se angaja la ceva care-i depãşeşte puterile (bite off more than one can chew), fi lacom (bite off more than one can chew, gluttonize). (various references) | |
Russian | более чем (any more than). (various references) | |
Spanish | más que (greater than, plenty). (various references) | |
Swedish | stjärngrepp (palm grip hand knob, star knob with more than four projections), inte mer än (no more than), flerprocessorarkitektur (concurrent processing of more than one message(or similar service-request)by an application program, multithreading), döma utöver vad som yrkats (to adjudicate more than is asked for). (various references) | |
Tswana | fetisa. (various references) | |
Turkish | yeter de artar (enough and to spare, more than enough), gereğinden fazla (excrescent, more than enough, over, overmuch, redundant, superabundant, unnecessary), fazlasıyla (amply, damned, darned, disproportionate, eminently, exceedingly, extremely, far better, in spades, jolly, largely, more than enough, parlous, precious, strongly, superfluously), birden fazla seçeneği olmak (have more than one string to one's bow), başından büyük işe girişmek (bite off more than one can chew). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gowrak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | не більше ніж (not more than). (various references) | |
Welsh | yn anad dim (above all), yn anad (above all). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | plura, pluribus, pluris, plus, praeter, supra, ulterius, ultimum, ultra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 12, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H yuch pleion estin thV trofhV kai to swma tou endumatoV |
| Latin | 405 |