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Improve
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(improves, improving, improved) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If something improves or if you improve it, it gets better. Both the texture and condition of your hair should improve... Time won’t improve the situation... VERB: V, V n 2. If a skill you have improves or you improve a skill, you get better at it. Their French has improved enormously... He said he was going to improve his football. VERB: V, V n 3. If you improve after an illness or an injury, your health gets better or you get stronger. He had improved so much the doctor had cut his dosage. = recover VERB: V 4. If you improve on a previous achievement of your own or of someone else, you achieve a better standard or result. We need to improve on our performance against France. VERB: V on n
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1.
verb (~d; improving) Etymology: Middle English improuen, emprouen, from Anglo-French emprouer to make profit from, from French en- + pru, prou advantage, from Late Latin prode — more at proud Date: circa 1529 transitive verb 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 verb 1. to advance or make progress in what is desirable 2. to make useful additions or amendments • improvability noun • improvable adjective • ~r noun Synonyms: ~, better, help, ameliorate mean to make more acceptable or to bring nearer a standard. ~ and better are general and interchangeable and apply to what can be made better whether it is good or bad measures to further ~ the quality of medical care immigrants hoping to better their lot. help implies a bettering that still leaves room for ~ment 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. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. 1 a tr. & intr. make or become better. b intr. (foll. by on, upon) produce something better than. 2 absol. (as improving adj.) giving moral benefit (improving literature). Etymology: orig. emprowe, improwe f. AF emprower f. OF emprou f. prou profit, infl. by PROVE ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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совершенствовать, улучшать IMPROVE гл. 1) улучшать(ся), совершенствовать(ся) 2) повышать ценность - prices have improved Syn: better, develop, perfect, refine ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. улучшать, совершенствовать to improve the standard of living of smb. —- повысить чьи-либо условия жизни to improve one's handwriting —- улучшать свой почерк to improve the faculties of the mind —- развивать умственные способности 2. улучшаться, совершенствоваться the situation has improved —- положение улучшилось his spelling has improved —- он стал делать меньше ошибок, он стал грамотнее писать to improve in health —- поправиться, окрепнуть his health is improving —- он поправляется to improve in looks —- лучше выглядеть to improve in looks —- стать интереснее to improve in strenght —- окрепнуть, стать крепче 3. разумно использовать; воспользоваться to improve one's hours of idleness —- использовать свободное время to improve the occasion —- воспользоваться случаем 4. улучшать земли; проводить мелиорацию to improve virgin land —- обрабатывать целину 5. повышаться в цене (благодаря застройке, проведению водопровода - о землях) 6. эк. подниматься, повышаться (о спросе, ценах) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. улучшать(ся); совершенствовать(ся) to improve in health - поправляться to improve in looks - выглядеть лучше, to improve the occasion (или the opportunity, the shining hour) - использовать удобный случай - improve away - improve upon Syn: ameliorate, better, meliorate Ant: deteriorate, impair, pollute, rot, worsen IMPROVE upon улучшать, усовершенствовать Tom has never improved upon his first book, which had a wild success; none of the others are as good. IMPROVE away пытаясь улучшить, сделать хуже; потерять то хорошее, что было ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to make something better (a course for students wishing to improve their English | Many dishes are greatly improved by adding fresh herbs.) 2 become better (Let's hope the weather improves before Saturday. | Some wines improve with age.) (- see raise1) improve on/ upon sth phr v to do something better than before or make it better than before (Bertorelli has scored 165 points, and I don't think anyone will improve on that.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1473, from Anglo-Fr. emprouwer "to turn to profit," from O.Fr. en-, causative prefix, + prou "profit," from L. prode "advantageous" (see proud). The phrase improve the occasion retains the etymological sense. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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