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# improve

verb (improve, improves, improved, improving); noun: improvement

«improve» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To make something better (improve your handwriting). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#m1)
2. To get better (her reading improved). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#m2)
3. Improve on: to do better than before. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#m3)

### In the lessons

At school it is used for learning and feedback: «How can you improve this?», «Your spelling has improved». Teachers set targets for improving. In science, you improve an experiment to make it fairer or more accurate. In health: sleep, food and exercise improve your mood and fitness. In maths, a score that improves goes up. Phrases: improve on, improve your skills, room for improvement, much improved.

### Examples

- You can improve your story by adding more adjectives. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x1)
- My times tables have really improved this term. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x2)
- How could we improve our experiment? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x3)
- The weather improved in the afternoon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x4)
- Practise every day to improve your swimming. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x5)
- She improved on her best time by two seconds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x6)
- Eating well can improve how you feel. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x7)
- Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.” [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x8)

### Note

Noun: improvement (an improvement, improvements). «Improve on» = beat a previous result. In maths problems: «improved by 5 points» means the new score = old score + 5.

## In Jewish tradition

At school it is used for learning and feedback: «How can you improve this?», «Your spelling has improved». Teachers set targets for improving. In science, you improve an experiment to make it fairer or more accurate. In health: sleep, food and exercise improve your mood and fitness. In maths, a score that improves goes up. Phrases: improve on, improve your skills, room for improvement, much improved.

### Examples

- Tenneman's "Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie," improved by Prof. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/improve/#x1)

### Note

Noun: improvement (an improvement, improvements). «Improve on» = beat a previous result. In maths problems: «improved by 5 points» means the new score = old score + 5.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «improve» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«improve» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/improve.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «improve» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/improve/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«improve» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/improve.html) on Mova free.