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# improve

«improve» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make something better (improve your handwriting)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) To make something better (improve your handwriting). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#m1)

2) To get better (her reading improved). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#m2)

3) Improve on: to do better than before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x1)
- My times tables have really improved this term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x2)
- How could we improve our experiment? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x3)
- The weather improved in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x4)
- Practise every day to improve your swimming. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x5)
- She improved on her best time by two seconds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/#x6)
- Eating well can improve how you feel. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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 the corpora

- [Getting feedback on your own work, then improving it yourself, is a good use if your school allows it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/14/)
- [Some apps use what people type to train and improve their AI, so type as if someone else might read it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/13/)
- [After a show the director gives praise and notes, small changes to make it better next time; good work can still improve.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/28-the-school-play-auditions-lines-stage-fright/13/)
- [Useful feedback is kind, specific and helpful: it names something that works and one clear thing to improve.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/38-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback/5/)
- [A draft is a version of your work that you plan to improve.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/38-praise-and-criticism-giving-and-taking-feedback/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «improve» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/improve/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.