English Dictionary

plus

/plʌs/

verb

(informal) To add; to subject to addition. / (often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude. / To improve. / To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.

I will plus the numbers together to get the total.

意味（1）

(informal) To add; to subject to addition.

For him y is a unique number, like 7, but for the time being unknown — if one does the operation of 'plussing 4' one still has, as a result, a unique number even though one does not yet know what it is.

意味（2）

(often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.

I am doing a lot of writing here, plussing the script, adding sequences.

意味（3）

To improve.

Coach Wooden didn't have to depend upon having the most talented players on his team because he could depend upon plussing to constantly make everyone better.

意味（4）

To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.

The animators and directors on the receiving end of the plussing don't necessarily have to accept and incorporate the feedback, but plussing provides a method to share criticisms in a way that makes it more likely that they will.

意味（5）

(sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.

Good will is also secured by plussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it.

意味（6）

(psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.

Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem.

意味（7）

(social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.

Coordinate term: like

意味（8）

(homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.

On hearing this, plussing was done (all medicated water of the phial was thrown away and fresh distilled was added and 10 strokes were given) on the 13th February 1974.

意味（9）

(optometry) To increase a correction.

No aspheric cataract spectacle lens designer has ever given the slightest thought to this 4 to 6 diopters of over-plussing for peripheral vision which is responsible for tremendous peripheral distortion, worse peripheral swim, worse false orientation, worse magnification, severe concave curvature of field (The floor comes up at you), increased ring scotoma size and increase jack-in-the-box phenomenon (the horse-blinder effect) with unsafe walking and driving.