Improve

Improve

Improve means to make something better. It may also refer to:

Improver

* Bread improver
* Improver Corporation: Improver v Remington, a 1990 United Kingdom patent infringement law court case

Improved

* Improved clinch knot, a knot
* Most Improved Player, a sports award
* New and improved, a popular advertising slogan
** "New and Improved", a 2001 music album by "Mice"
* Improved Order of Heptasophs, an 1878 fraternal organization

Technology
* LNWR Improved Precedent Class, a steam locomotive
* Improved-definition television (IDTV)
* Improved Touring, a category of classifications for cars in amateur road racing
* Improved Orion, a sounding rocket

Improvement

* "Improvement Era", magazine of the "Church of the Latter-Day Saints" from 1897-1970
* Home improvement, the process of renovating or making additions to a home
* "Home Improvement", a 1990s television show
* Airport Improvement Fee
* Natural vision improvement

Government
* Improvement commissioners, an early form of government in 18th-century Britain
* Improvement and Development Agency, a 1998 British governmental agency
* Improvement district
* Land improvement
* Improvement district
* Capital Improvement Plan
* Environmental Quality Improvement Act

Healthcare
* Quality improvement organizations
* The Health Improvement Network, a United Kingdom medical database

Organizational
* Achievement Improvement Monitor, an Australian educational testing system
* Improvement trust
* Ontario Swine Improvement
* Organic Crop Improvement Association
* South Improvement Company, a railroad-oil-related Pennsylvania corporation in the early 1870s
* Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

:Business management:* Business Process Improvement:* Continual improvement:* Performance improvement/Performance improvement plan:* Focused improvement:* Quality improvement

Technology
* Network Improvement, in telecommunications
* Preemphasis improvement, in radio
** FM improvement threshold
** FM improvement factor
* Improved Multi-Band Excitation, a vocoder
* Improvement Support Systems

ee also

* Improv
* Better

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  • improve — im‧prove [ɪmˈpruːv] verb 1. [intransitive, transitive] FINANCE if shares, prices etc improve by a particular amount, they rise by that amount: • Jaguar improved 21p, closing at 665p. improve by • Hungary s dollar current account improved by a… …   Financial and business terms

  • improve — 1 Improve, better, help, ameliorate are comparable when denoting to mend or correct in part or in some de gree. Improve, the general term, and better, more vigorous and homely, apply both to objects and to states or conditions that are not of… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Improve — Im*prove , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Improved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Improving}.] [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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 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. [1913 Webster] We take care to improve in our frugality and diligence. Atterbury. [1913 Webster] 2. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • improve — [im pro͞ov′] vt. improved, improving [earlier improw < Anglo Fr emprower < en , in + prou, gain, advantage < LL prode, advantage (back form. < L prodesse, to be of advantage): see PRO 2 & IS1] 1. Now Rare to use profitably or to good… …   English World dictionary

  • Improve — Im*prove , v. t. [Pref. im not + prove: cf. L. improbare, F. improuver.] 1. To disprove or make void; to refute. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. To… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • improve\ on — • improve (up)on v To make or get one that is better than (another). Dick made good marks the first year, but he thought he could improve on them. Charles built a new model racer for the derby race, because he knew he could improve upon his old… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • improve — I verb advance, ameliorate, amend, appreciate, beautify, correct, cultivate, cure, develop, doctor, edify, edit, elaborate, elevate, embellish, emend, enhance, ennoble, enrich, fix, flourish, gain, gain strength, heighten, help, increase,… …   Law dictionary

  • improve — (v.) late 15c., to use to one s profit, to increase (income), from Anglo Fr. emprouwer to turn to profit (late 13c.), from O.Fr. en , causative prefix, + prou profit, from L. prode advantageous (see PROUD (Cf. proud)). Spelling with v was rare… …   Etymology dictionary

  • improve — ► VERB 1) make or become better. 2) (improve on/upon) achieve or produce something better than. 3) (improving) giving moral or intellectual benefit. DERIVATIVES improvability noun improvable adjective improver …   English terms dictionary

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