Apr 30, 2021 · more than 2. is > 2, meaning. greater than but not including 2. your other phrase. two or more. is very succinct and clear, you could also use. at least 2. to mean ">= 2", it does not need to be entirely spelled out as. greater than or equal to 2

Her intelligence more than compensates for her lack of experience. This means that her intelligence makes her better than someone who has adequate experience. A separate example: He cleared the high jump bar with his leap. This means that he exceeded the height of the bar. He more than cleared the high jump bar with his leap.

Apr 21, 2012 · The cost of gasoline is more than it was last year. In some Olympic events, strength matters more than speed. Some rules of geometry get very complicated in more than three dimensions. More than anything else, communication is the key to a happy marriage. Clearly, the use of more than and better than are not interchangeable in those examples.

Dec 2, 2014 · There are already other elided words in the original sentence, which might have been "Don't buy more books that it is necessary to buy". – WS2 Commented Aug 19, 2019 at 8:38

Mar 31, 2017 · If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help or contact a poison control center right away.” In the months following the new warning, toothpaste consumer lines fielded hundreds of questions from worried parents, and poison control centers were flooded with calls as well.

"more than" is a comparative degree (phrase of "more"). If something is more than a particular thing, it has greater value or importance than this thing. With "more than that" it means that there is more (something else) beyond what was mentioned earlier. You use "more than" to say that something is true to a greater degree than is necessary or ...

Apr 9, 2020 · Any more than is a special idiomatic construction that occurs only in negative contexts. Without the not in don't want (however you say or spell it), *I want to do it any more/less than you do is ungrammatical. And less would also be ungrammatical with the negative, because less is also negative: *I don't want to do it any less than you do ...

Apr 12, 2013 · The construction [not X] any more than [Y] is a way of comparing a primary negative assertion to an obviously absurd positive secondary assertion. The underlying logic is: [X] is not any more true than [Y] … that is, it is equally untrue [Going to church makes you a Christian] is not any more true than [going to a garage makes you a car].

Feb 10, 2019 · For example, we can say "He's more of a singer than a dancer", which means that he's more like a singer than a dancer. However, I would like to know if we can use it when the words we are describing are preceded by "the", which is also an article. For example, can we use "The cause of the disaster was more of the operator than the machine itself"?

John Lawler is right that they mean mostly the same thing. But in terms of actual usage, hyper-is often used when something more than super-is needed. For example, an aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound is called supersonic. But there arose a need to distinguish between mere supersonic speed and something far beyond that.