{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˌɪmˈpruv" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/improve.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/improve.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Anglo-Norman emprouwer, from Old French en- + prou (“profit”), from Vulgar Latin prode (“advantageous, profitable”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).\nPainting the woodwork will improve this house.\nBuying more servers would improve performance.\n2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become better.\nI have improved since taking the tablets.\nThe error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.\n1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 41:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.\n1528 October 2, William Tyndale, The Obediẽce of a Christen Man , , folios xciij, recto – xciij, verso:Nether can any of them make ſo ſtronge a reaſon which a nother can not improve." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.\n1528 October 2, William Tyndale, The Obediẽce of a Christen Man , , folio cxlix, recto: when he reherſed his preachinge and his doynges vnto the hye Apoſtles / they coulde improve no thinge \n, Homer, “Book X”, in Geo Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. , London: Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, , volume I, new edition, London: Charles Knight and Co., , 1843, →OCLC, page 218:You would improve his negligence, too oft to ease retir’d:" }, { "mean": "(dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.\nto improve one's time;  to improve his means\na. 1678 (date written)​, Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). The Reward of Honouring God”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A J Valpy, , published 1830–1831, →OCLC:We shall especially honour God, by discharging faithfully those offices which God hath entrusted us with: by improving diligently those talents which God hath committed to us\n1711 July 18 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele , “SATURDAY, July 7, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 111; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume II, New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 96: a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved \n1715, Isaac Watts, Against Idleness and Mischief\nHow doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour.\n1768, William Blackstone, “Of Judgment, and it’s Incidents”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book III (Of Private Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 392: the court has alſo an opportunity, which it ſeldom fails to improve, \nMarch 7, 1778, George Washington, letter\nTrue policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "\"improve\" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 160.\n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=improveoldid=72511835\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms derived from Anglo-NormanEnglish terms derived from Old FrenchEnglish terms derived from Vulgar LatinEnglish 2-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish terms with audio linksRhymes:English/uːvRhymes:English/uːv/2 syllablesEnglish lemmasEnglish verbsEnglish transitive verbsEnglish terms with usage examplesEnglish terms with quotationsEnglish intransitive verbsEnglish terms with obsolete sensesEnglish dated termsEnglish ergative verbsHidden categories: Requests for translations into AbkhazRequests for translations into ChechenTerms with redundant transliterationsTerms with redundant transliterations/cmnRequests for translations into MalayRequests for translations into MongolianRequests for translations into TibetanRequests for translations into TuvanRequests for translations into ThaiRequests for review of Telugu translationsRequests for review of Yucatec Maya translations\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\t
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