English-Thai Dictionary
improve
VI ดีขึ้น ปรับปรุง ทุเลา ameliorate enhance mend de-kuan
improve
VT ทำให้ ดีขึ้น ปรับปรุง enhance mend reform tam-hai-de-kuan
improve in
PHRV ทำให้ ดีขึ้น ปรับปรุง แก้ไข ให้ ดีขึ้น tam-hai-de-kuan
improve on
PHRV ให้ สิ่ง ที่ ดีกว่า สร้าง สิ่ง ที่ ดีกว่า improve upon hai-sing-ti-de-kwa
improve upon
PHRV ให้ สิ่ง ที่ ดีกว่า สร้าง สิ่ง ที่ ดีกว่า improve on hai-sing-ti-de-kwa
improvement
N การปรับปรุง การ แก้ไข การ ทำให้ ดีขึ้น amelioration development decay deterioration kan-prab-prung
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
IMPROVE
v.t.improov'. [L. in and probo, to prove, or the adjective probus.] 1. To make better; to advance in value or good qualities. We amend a bad, but improve a good thing.
A good education improves the mind and the manners. A judicious rotation of crops tends to improve land.
2. To use or employ to good purpose; to make productive; to turn to profitable account; to use for advantage; to employ for advancing interest, reputation or happiness.
Many opportunities occur of improving money, which, if a man misses, he may not afterwards recover.
Melissus was a man of parts, capable or enjoying and improving life.
True policy as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.
This success was not improved.
Those who enjoy the advantage of better instruction, should improve their privileges.
They were aware of the advantages of their position, and improved them with equal skill and diligence.
Those moments were diligently improved.
The candidate improved his advantages.
A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved.
Whatever interest we have at the throne of grace, should be improved in behalf of others.
The court seldom fails to improve the opportunity.
My lords, no time should be lost, which may promise to improve this disposition in America.
If we neglect to improve our knowledge to the ends for which it was given--
It is the fault of persons not improving that light.
The shorter the time--the more eager were they to improve it.
A young minister wishing to improve the occasion--
3. To apply to practical purposes; as, to improve a discourse, or the doctrines stated and proved in a sermon.
4. To advance or increase by use; in a bad sense.
I fear we have not a little improved the wretched inheritance of our ancestors.
5. To use; to employ; as, to improve a witness of a deposition.
Let even the coach, the inns, or the ships be improved as openings for useful instruction.
6. To use; to occupy; to cultivate. The house or the farm is now improved by an industrious tenant.
This application is perhaps peculiar to some parts of the U. States. It however deviates little from that in some of the forgoing definitions.
IMPROVE
v.i.improov'. To grow better or wiser; to advance in goodness, knowledge, wisdom or other excellence. We are pleased to see our children improve in knowledge and virtue. A farm improves under judicious management. The artisan improves by experience. It is the duty, as it is the desire of a good man, to improve in grace and piety. We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence.
1. To advance in bad qualities; to grow worse.
Domitian improved in cruelty toward the end of his reign.
[I regret to see this word thus used, or rather perverted. ]
2. To increase; to be enhanced; to rise.
The price of cotton improves, or is improved.
[A mercantile and modern use of the word. ]
To improve on, to make useful additions or amendments to; to bring nearer to perfection; as, to improve on the mode of tillage usually practiced.
IMPROVED
pp. Made better, wiser or more excellent; advanced immoral worth, knowledge or manners. 1. Made better; advanced in fertility or other good qualities.
2. Used to profit or good purpose; as opportunities of learning improved.
3. Used; occupied; as improved land.
IMPROVEMENT
n.improov'ment. Advancement in moral worth, learning, wisdom, skill or other excellence; as the improvement of the mind or of the heart by cultivation; improvement in classical learning, science or mechanical skill; improvement in music; improvement in holiness. 1. Melioration; a making or growing better, or more valuable; as the improvement of barren or exhausted land; the improvement of the roads; the improvement of the breed of horses or cattle.
2. A valuable addition; excellence added, or a change for the better; sometimes with on.
The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
3. Advance or progress from any state to a better.
There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
4. Instruction; growth in knowledge or refinement; edification.
I look upon your city as the best place of improvement.
5. Use or employment to beneficial purposes; a turning to good account; as the improvement of natural advantages or spiritual privileges.
A good improvement of his reason.
6. Practical application; as the improvement of the doctrines and principles of a sermon.
I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
Hence,
7. The part of a discourse intended to enforce and apply the doctrines, is called the improvement.
8. Use; occupancy.
9. Improvements, plu., valuable additions or melioration, as building, clearings, drains, fences, etc. , on a farm.
IMPROVER
n.One who improves; one who makes himself or any thing else better; as an improver of horses or cattle. 1. That which improves, enriches or meliorates; as chalk is an improver of lands.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
IMPROVE
Im *prove ", v. t. Etym: [Pref. im- not + prove: cf. L. improbare, F.improuver.]
1. To disprove or make void; to refute. [Obs. ] Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale.
2. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. [Obs. ] Chapman. When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing. Tyndale.
IMPROVE
Im *prove ", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Improved; p. pr. & vb. n. Improving. ]Etym: [Pref. in- in + prove, in approve. See Approve, Prove. ]
1. To make better; to increase the value or good qualities of; to ameliorate by care or cultivation; as, to improve land. Donne. I love not to improve the honor of the living by impairing that of the dead. Denham.
2. 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. Shak. We shall especially honor God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us. Barrow. A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved. Addison. The court seldom fails to improve the oppotunity. Blackstone.How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion. Washington.
3. To advance or increase by use; to augment or add to; -- said with reference to what is bad. [R.] We all have, I fear, ... not a little improved the wretched inheritance of our ancestors. Bp. Porteus.
Syn. -- To better; meliorate; ameliorate; advance; heighten; mend; correct; recify; amend; reform.
IMPROVE
IMPROVE Im *prove ", v. i.
1. To grow better; to advance or make progress in what is desirable; to make or show improvement; as, to improve in health. We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence. Atterbury.
2. To advance or progress in bad qualities; to grow worse. "Domitain improved in cruelty. " Milner.
3. To increase; to be enhanced; to rise in value; as, the price of cotton improves. To improve on or upon, to make useful additions or amendments to, or changes in; to bring nearer to perfection; as, to improve on the mode of tillage.
IMPROVEMENT
IMPROVEMENT Im *prove "ment, n.
1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc. I look upon your city as the best place of improvement. South. Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. Blair.
2. The act of making profitable use or applicaton of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse. "A good improvement of his reason. " S. Clarke.I shall make some improvement of this doctrine. Tillotson.
3. The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old. The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet. Addison.
4. Increase; growth; progress; advance. There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays. Addison. Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity. South.
5. pl.
Defn: Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc. , on premises.
6. (Patent Laws )
Defn: A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition. Kent.
IMPROVER
IMPROVER Im *prov "er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, improves.
New American Oxford Dictionary
improve
im prove |imˈpro͞ov ɪmˈpruv | ▶verb make or become better: [ with obj. ] : we ’ve used technology to improve relations with customers | (as adj. improved ) : improved road and rail links | [ no obj. ] : his condition improved after glass was removed from his arm. • [ with obj. ] develop or increase in mental capacity by education or experience: I subscribed to two magazines to improve my mind. • [ no obj. ] (improve on /upon ) achieve or produce something better than: they are trying to improve on the tired old style. DERIVATIVES im prov a bil i ty |-ˌpro͞ovəˈbilitē |noun, im prov a ble adjective, im prov er noun ORIGIN early 16th cent. (as emprowe or improwe ): from Anglo-Norman French emprower (based on Old French prou ‘profit, ’ ultimately from Latin prodest ‘is of advantage ’); -owe was changed to -ove under the influence of prove. The original sense was ‘make a profit, increase the value of ’; subsequently ‘make greater in amount or degree. ’
improvement
im prove ment |imˈpro͞ovmənt ɪmˈpruvmənt | ▶noun an example or instance of improving or being improved: an improvement in East –West relations. • the action of improving or being improved: there's still room for improvement . • a thing that makes something better or is better than something else: home improvements | it's an improvement on the last cake I made. ORIGIN late Middle English emprowement (in the sense ‘profitable management or use; profit ’), from Anglo-Norman French, from emprower (see improve ).
Oxford Dictionary
improve
im |prove |ɪmˈpruːv | ▶verb make or become better: [ with obj. ] : efforts to improve relations between the countries | (as adj. improved ) : an improved design | [ no obj. ] : communications improved during the 18th century. • [ with obj. ] develop or increase in mental capacity by education or experience: I subscribed to two magazines to improve my mind. • [ no obj. ] (improve on /upon ) achieve or produce something better than: they are trying to improve on the tired old style. DERIVATIVES improvability noun, improvable adjective, improver noun ORIGIN early 16th cent. (as emprowe or improwe ): from Anglo-Norman French emprower (based on Old French prou ‘profit ’, ultimately from Latin prodest ‘is of advantage ’); -owe was changed to -ove under the influence of prove. The original sense was ‘make a profit, increase the value of ’; subsequently ‘make greater in amount or degree ’.
improvement
im ¦prove |ment |ɪmˈpruːvm (ə )nt | ▶noun an example of improving or being improved: an improvement in East –West relations. • [ mass noun ] the action of improving or being improved: there's still room for improvement . • a thing that makes something better or is better than something else: home improvements | it's an improvement on the last cake I made. ORIGIN late Middle English emprowement (in the sense ‘profitable management or use; profit ’), from Anglo-Norman French, from emprower (see improve ).
American Oxford Thesaurus
improve
improve verb 1 ways to improve the service: make better, better, ameliorate, upgrade, update, refine, enhance, boost, build on, raise, polish, fix (up ), amend; informal tweak; formal meliorate. ANTONYMS worsen. 2 communications improved during the eighteenth century: get better, advance, progress, develop; make headway, make progress, pick up, look up. ANTONYMS deteriorate. 3 the dose is not repeated if patient improves: recover, get better, recuperate, gain strength, rally, revive, get back on one's feet, get over something; be on the road to recovery, be on the mend; informal turn the corner, take a turn for the better, bounce back. ANTONYMS deteriorate. 4 resources are needed to improve the offer: increase, make larger, raise, augment, enhance, boost, supplement, top up; informal up, hike up, bump up, soup up, beef up. ANTONYMS decrease, diminish. PHRASES improve on how could anyone improve on his brilliant analysis? surpass, better, do better than, outdo, exceed, beat, top, cap.
improvement
improvement noun identifying the areas most in need of improvement | passengers will notice many new improvements: advance, development, upgrade, refinement, renovation, enhancement, advancement, upgrading, amelioration, betterment; boost, lift, rise, augmentation, raising, step up; rally, recovery, upswing, upturn.
Oxford Thesaurus
improve
improve verb 1 staff looked for ways to improve the service: make better, better, ameliorate, upgrade, refine, enhance, boost, build on, help, raise, revamp, brush up, polish up, perk up, tweak; informal give a facelift to; rare meliorate. ANTONYMS worsen, impair. 2 communications improved during the 18th century: get better, become better, advance, progress, develop; make headway, come along, make progress, take steps forward, pick up, rally, perk up, make strides; informal look up. ANTONYMS worsen, deteriorate. 3 the dose is not repeated for as long as the patient continues to improve: recover, get better, get well, recuperate, convalesce, gain strength, rally, revive, strengthen, regain one's strength /health, get back on one's feet, get over something; be on the road to recovery, be on the mend; informal turn the corner, take a turn for the better, take on a new lease of life; Brit. informal be on the up and up. ANTONYMS deteriorate, become ill. 4 resources are needed to improve the offer: increase, make larger, make bigger, raise, put up, add to, augment, supplement, top up, enlarge; informal up, jack up, hike up, bump up, crank up, step up. ANTONYMS decrease. PHRASES improve on I cannot improve on his comments: surpass, better, do better than, outdo, exceed, beat, top, trump, cap, outstrip, overshadow, go one better than.
improvement
improvement noun an improvement in the quality of Britain's rivers | many areas in the design could do with improvement: advance, development, upgrade, change for the better, refinement, enhancement, furtherance, advancement, forwarding; boost, augmentation, raising; correction, rectification, rectifying, upgrading, amelioration; rally, recovery, upswing, breakthrough. ANTONYMS deterioration.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
improve
im prove /ɪmprúːv / (! -o-は /uː /) 〖en (上げる )prove (利益 )〗(名 )improvement 動詞 ～s /-z /; ～d /-d /; improving 他動詞 1 〈人 事が 〉〈物 事 〉を (不足分を補って )改善する, 改良する ; 〈技能など 〉を上達 [向上 ]させる ; 〈休憩などが 〉〈健康 〉を増進させる ▸ I want to improve my English .私は英語がうまくなりたい ▸ The mayor tried to improve the city's finances .市長は市の財政改善を試みた 2 (改良 改修によって )〈土地 建物 〉の価値を高める ▸ improve the house その家の資産価値を高める .3 ｟まれ ｠〈時間など 〉を活用する .自動詞 〈人 物などが 〉 «…の点で » 良くなる , 回復する, 進歩する «in » ; 〈技能などが 〉上達 [向上 ]する ▸ His manners are really improving .≒He is really improving in manners .彼のマナーは本当に良くなっている ▸ He has improved in health .彼の健康は回復した ▸ The weather is improving .天候が回復しつつある impr ó ve on [upon ] A A 〈物など 〉に改良を加える ; A 〈記録など 〉を上回る .
improved
im pr ó ved 形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗改良 [改善 ]された, 以前より良くなった ▸ an improved variety 改良品種
improvement
im prove ment /ɪmprúːvmənt /→improve 名詞 複 ～s /-ts /1 U «…における /…への /…に関する » 改善, 改良 ; 上達 , 進歩 «in /to /on » (!具体例ではan ～/～s; その際しばしば修飾語を伴う ) ▸ a great deal of improvement in his work 彼の研究における大きな進歩 ▸ make [carry out ] major improvements to the system システムに大幅な改良を施す ▸ There is room for improvement here .ここには改善の余地がある 2 C «…における /…への /…に関する » (具体的に )改良されたもの, 改善 [改良 ]事項 «in /to /on, over » ▸ This system is one of our recent improvements .この制度は最近の改善事項の1つである ▸ The second edition of the dictionary is an improvement on the first .その辞書の第2版は初版よりもできがよい 3 U ｟まれ ｠(時間などの )利用, 活用 .
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