The Collaborative International Dictionary
More \More\, n.
-
A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
--Ex. xvi. 17. -
That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount. They that would have more and more can never have enough. --L'Estrange. O! That pang where more than madness lies. --Byron. Any more.
Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more.
-
Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it.
No more, not anything more; nothing in addition.
The more and less, the high and low. [Obs.]
--Shak. ``All cried, both less and more.''
--Chaucer.
Wiktionary
adv. 1 (cx in negative or interrogative constructions English) From a given time onwards; longer, again. 2 (context colloquial chiefly Northern Ireland US in positive constructions English) now, from now on. 3 To a greater extent (than). alt. 1 (cx in negative or interrogative constructions English) From a given time onwards; longer, again. 2 (context colloquial chiefly Northern Ireland US in positive constructions English) now, from now on. 3 To a greater extent (than).
Usage examples of "any more".
She brought it back to bed and sat for a time, paging through the pictures of Jacob and Anna, for although she could not share her triumphs with them any more, she needed to feel that they were close.
So you told the people at Mountainview that you didn't want their job any more?
He could have touched it without disturbing her, for nothing disturbed her any more, but he did not.
He'd do it and do it and do it until he just couldn't get his pecker up to do it any more, and then he'd want to watch X-rated videotapes.
Dom asked, indirectly inquiring if any more Polaroids had been received.
But he did not need or want the money any more, could not simply throw it in the trash, so giving the damn stuff away was his only possible course of action.
With Kenny Rogers crooning on the jukebox, the guy said, "My name's Jack Twist, and I don't know any more than you what in hell's happening, probably less than you know.
There's no point discussing it because we can't prove there was such a virus any more than we can prove there wasn't one.
If Corvaisis and Cronin weren't entirely themselves any more, if they were now someone else-or something else-dealing with them might prove downright impossible.
He came to live here a week ago because his mother can't control him any more.
Look at Hector on his mother's lap, eating candy, and remember God's promise: "There shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
But in light of the screwups in their investigation thus far-including two sabotaged lie detectors-he no longer trusted them any more than he trusted Bennell or the other scientists, He had to do it himself.
But if you're wrong, if they're not entirely human any more, and if they don't want you to know the truth, how would you possibly discover it?
You've come as He wanted, so there's no need for Him to send you the dream any more.
Brendan, Jack, and others went in cars, strangers piling in with strangers, but in some way none of us were strangers any more.