Difference between Positive and Plus

What is the difference between Positive and Plus?

Positive as a noun is a thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. while Plus as a noun is a positive quantity.

Positive

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual. A favourable point or characteristic. Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge. An adjective or adverb in the positive degree. A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Definitively laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed, precise, emphatic. Fully assured, confident; certain. Overconfident, dogmatic. Describing the primary sense of an adjective or adverb; not comparative or superlative. Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute. Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright. Characterized by the existence or presence of qualities or features, rather than by their absence. Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis. Characterized by affirmation, constructiveness, or influence for the better; favourable. Actual, real, concrete. Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values. Having more protons than electrons. Of number, greater than zero. HIV positive.

Example sentence: You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Plus

Part of speech: preposition

Definition: increased bywith; having in addition

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A positive quantity.An asset or useful addition.A plus sign: +.

Part of speech: conjunction

Definition: and also; in addition

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Being positive rather than negative or zero.Positive, or involving advantage.Electrically positive.

Example sentence: I am I plus my circumstances.

We hope you now know whether to use Positive or Plus in your sentence.

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