English-Thai Dictionary

improvement

N การปรับปรุง  การ แก้ไข  การ ทำให้ ดีขึ้น  amelioration development decay deterioration kan-prab-prung

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

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

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

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

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

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 .