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Etymology 1

From Middle English more, from Old English māra (“more”), from Proto-Germanic *maizô (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *mē- (“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”).

det

1. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
   There are more ways to do this than I can count.
   One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. 2014-06-14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891
2. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
   There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
   Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. 2013-06-29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3
3. Additional; further.
   If you run out, there are more bandages in the first aid cupboard.
   More people are arriving.
   I want more soup.
   I need more time.
4. 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.

adv

1. To a greater degree or extent.
   I like cake, but I like chocolate more.
   I could no more climb that than fly!
   More advanced students.
   I have more than carried out my obligation.
   I have no complaints and no more does my mom.
   Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found. 2013-07-19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
2. Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
   You're more beautiful than I ever imagined.
   Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal. 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4
3. (now poetic) In negative constructions: any further, any longer; any more.
4. (now dialectal, humorous or proscribed) Used in addition to an inflected comparative form.
   I was more better at English than you.

pron

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.
   Speaking about Canada, where I teach, while the canon remains the raison d’etre of the discipline, some changes have come about and more are in the offing. 2016, Arun P. Mukherjee, “English Studies in Contemporary India”, in M. Sridhar, Sunita Mishra, editors, Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates, page 254

adj

1. comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
   Last year’s applications received from new and returning students were more than each of the previous four years.
2. comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)

Etymology 2

table From Middle English more, moore (“root”), from Old English more, moru (“carrot, parsnip”) from Proto-West Germanic *morhā, from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ (“carrot”), from Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“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.

noun

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

Etymology 3

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

verb

1. (transitive) To root up.