Definition of Minus

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Definition of Minus
	Minus Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Related Definitions: As, Be, Less, Minus, Negative, Quantity, Requiring, Subtracted, To

Minus Quotations

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it.
Philip Pullman

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill

Minus Translations

minus in Dutch is min, minus
minus in French is moins
minus in German is minus
minus in Italian is meno
minus in Portuguese is negativo

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