improve

verboverbocorrente nos diálogos

//ɪmˈpɹuːv//

To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).

verbo

1
To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
Buying more servers would improve performance.
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.
2
To become better.
I have improved since taking the tablets.
The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.
“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.”
3
antiquadoTo use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
to improve one's time; to improve his means
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
[A] hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved […]
How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour.

Etimologia

From Anglo-Norman emprouwer, from Old French en- + prou (“profit”), from Vulgar Latin prode (“advantageous, profitable”).

verbo

1
obsoletoTo disprove or make void; to refute.
One ſayth this and a nother that / but can not agre. Nether can any of them make ſo ſtronge a reaſon vvhich a nother can not improve.
2
obsoletoTo disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
[W]hen he reherſed his preachinge and his doynges vnto the hye Apoſtles / they coulde improve no thinge […]
You would improve his negligence, too oft to ease retir’d: […]

Etimologia

From Latin improbō (“disapprove, reject”). Doublet of improbate.

Formas

pretérito: improved
particípio passado: improved
gerúndio: improving
3.ª pessoa do singular: improves

imprint · An impression; the mark left behind by printing something or…imprisonment · A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail,…improper · Unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.

improve · To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).

improved · That has been made better; enhanced.improvement · The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering improving · That tends to improve someone or something (especially…

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