OXFORD 9000
📚 adv • entry_id 7454

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/mɔː(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
en más • más
Used to form the comparative form of adjectives and adverbs.
I am much more eager to help than you.
You're a great deal more beautiful than I ever imagined.
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📚 det • entry_id 7453

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/mɔː(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
más
comparative degree of many: in greater number. (Used for a discrete quantity.)
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 m…
There are more ways to do this than I can count.
más
comparative degree of much: in greater quantity, amount, or proportion. (Used for a continuous quantity.)
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…
There's more caffeine in my coffee than in the coffee you get in most places.
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