Improve
Improve İngilizce anlamı ve tanımı
Improve anlamları
- (v. t.) To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land.
- (v. t.) To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to utilize; as, to improve one's time; to improve his means.
- (v. t.) To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence.
- (v. t.) To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad.
- (v. i.) To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse.
- (v. i.) To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health.
- (v. t.) To disprove or make void; to refute.
- (v. i.) To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves.
Improve tanım:
Kelime: im·prove
Söyleniş: im-'prüv
İşlev: verb
Türleri: im·proved; im·prov·ing
Kökeni: Anglo-French emprouer to invest profitably, from Old French en- prou advantage, from Late Latin prode -- more at PROUD
transitive senses
1 archaic : EMPLOY, USE
2 a : to enhance in value or quality : make better b : to increase the value of (land or property) by making it more useful for humans (as by cultivation or the erection of buildings) c : to grade and drain (a road) and apply surfacing material other than pavement
3 : to use to good purpose
intransitive senses
1 : to advance or make progress in what is desirable
2 : to make useful additions or amendments
- im·prov·abil·i·ty
/(")im-"prü-v&-'bi-l&-tE/ noun- im·prov·able
/-'prü-v&-b&l/ adjective- im·prov·er noun
synonyms IMPROVE, BETTER, HELP, AMELIORATE mean to make more acceptable or to bring nearer a standard. IMPROVE and BETTER are general and interchangeable and apply to what can be made better whether it is good or bad measures to further improve the quality of medical care immigrants hoping to better their lot . HELP implies a bettering that still leaves room for improvement a coat of paint would help that house . AMELIORATE implies making more tolerable or acceptable conditions that are hard to endure tried to ameliorate the lives of people in the tenements .