PLUS

I. adjective see: full Date: 1579 algebraically positive, having, receiving, or being in addition to what is anticipated, 3. falling high in a specified range , greater than that specified, possessing a specified quality to a high degree, electrically positive, relating to or being a particular one of the two mating types that are required for successful fertilization in sexual reproduction in some lower plantlike organisms (as a fungus), II. noun (plural ~es; also ~ses) Date: 1654 ~ sign , an added quantity, a positive factor or quality, sur~ , III. preposition Date: 1668 increased by ; with the addition of , besides , IV. conjunction Date: circa 1950 and , in addition to which , Usage: The preposition ~ has long been used with a meaning equivalent to and (as in “two ~ two”); it is not, therefore, very surprising that in time people have begun to use it as a conjunction much like and. Sense 2 is considered to be an adverb by some commentators. It is used chiefly in speech and in informal writing.