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Meaning of "improving" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPROVING

improving  [ɪmˈpruːvɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPROVING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Improving is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IMPROVING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Improvement

Improvement may refer to: ▪ Business process improvement ▪ Continual improvement ▪ Focused improvement ▪ Home improvement, the process or result of improving the efficiency, livability, or market value of a personal dwelling ▪ Improvement commissioners, a form of government in 18th-century Britain ▪ Improvement Era, magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published from 1897–1970 ▪ Improvement trust ▪ Land improvement ▪ Natural vision improvement, a regimen developed by William Horatio Bates for improving human vision ▪ Network improvement ▪ Performance improvement ▪ Preemphasis improvement ▪ Quality improvement...

Definition of improving in the English dictionary

The first definition of improving in the dictionary is becoming better. Other definition of improving is tending to educate or edify. Improving is also making things better.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPROVING


approving
əˈpruːvɪŋ
believing
bɪˈliːvɪŋ
carving
ˈkɑːvɪŋ
deserving
dɪˈzɜːvɪŋ
disapproving
ˌdɪsəˈpruːvɪŋ
earthmoving
ˈɜːθˌmuːvɪŋ
fast-moving
ˌfɑːstˈmuːvɪŋ
grieving
ˈɡriːvɪŋ
Irving
ˈɜːvɪŋ
leaving
ˈliːvɪŋ
moving
ˈmuːvɪŋ
nonmoving
ˌnɒnˈmuːvɪŋ
reproving
rɪˈpruːvɪŋ
serving
ˈsɜːvɪŋ
slow-moving
ˌsləʊˈmuːvɪŋ
starving
ˈstɑːvɪŋ
unapproving
ˌʌnəˈpruːvɪŋ
unmoving
ʌnˈmuːvɪŋ
unreproving
ˌʌnrɪˈpruːvɪŋ
weaving
ˈwiːvɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPROVING

improvement grant
improver
improvidence
improvident
improvidently
improvingly
improvisate
improvisation
improvisational
improvisator
improvisatore
improvisatori
improvisatorial
improvisatory
improvisatrices
improvisatrix
improvise
improvised explosive device
improviser
improvisor

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPROVING

coving
diving
driving
duck-shoving
fun-loving
giving
home-loving
living
loving
nonloving
peace-loving
pleasure-loving
proving
roving
saving
shaving
shoving
surviving
thanksgiving
unloving

Synonyms and antonyms of improving in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IMPROVING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «improving» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of improving

Translation of «improving» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMPROVING

Find out the translation of improving to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of improving from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «improving» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

改善
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mejorar
570 millions of speakers

English

improving
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सुधार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحسين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

улучшения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

melhorar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উন্নতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

l´amélioration
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bertambah baik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verbesserung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

改善
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

개선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

ningkatake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cải thiện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேம்படுத்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुधारणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

geliştirme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

miglioramento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poprawy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поліпшення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

îmbunătățirea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βελτίωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbetering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förbättring
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bedre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of improving

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPROVING»

The term «improving» is very widely used and occupies the 6.818 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPROVING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about improving

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10 QUOTES WITH «IMPROVING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word improving.
1
George Allen
I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.
2
Tariq Anwar
Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
3
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.
4
Michael Bennet
Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.
5
Mark Bittman
The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
6
Heston Blumenthal
I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
7
Anne Bradstreet
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
8
Jim Breyer
I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.
9
Beth Brooke
Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.
10
Gro Harlem Brundtland
I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPROVING»

Discover the use of improving in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to improving and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Thaler and Sunstein offer a groundbreaking discussion of how to apply the science of choice to nudge people toward decisions that can improve their lives without restricting their freedom of choice.
Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein, 2008
2
Improving Survey Questions: Design and Evaluation
This invaluable book shows how to word and format questions that will evoke the kind of answers for which they are designed and how to evaluate empirically survey questions.
Floyd J. Fowler, 1995
3
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
In this book, Martin Fowler shows you where opportunities for refactoring typically can be found, and how to go about reworking a bad design into a good one. Each refactoring step is simple--seemingly too simple to be worth doing.
Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, 2012
4
The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
The Little Book of Talent is a manual for building a faster brain and a better you.
Daniel Coyle, 2012
5
Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving ...
This book provides a multi-disciplinary framework for developing and analysing health sector reforms, based on the authors' extensive international experience.
Marc Roberts, William Hsiao, Peter Berman, 2008
6
Improving Reading: Strategies and Resources
Provides methods for improving reading skill and comprehension.
Jerry L. Johns, Susan Davis Lenski, 2001
7
Improving Organizational Effectiveness Through ...
What leadership techniques produce the most effective organizations? This book examines the theory and practice of the dynamic and innovative style of transformational leadership.
Bernard M. Bass, Bruce J. Avolio, 1994
8
Improving School Behaviour
Behaviour difficulties in our schools will not go away, but they can be significantly reduced. This book makes available to practitioners and students the frameworks and ideas, which will help them, minimize behaviour difficulty in school.
Chris Watkins, Patsy Wagner, 2000
9
Improving Governance: A New Logic for Empirical Research
Proposing a framework for research based on the premise that any particular governance arrangement is embedded in a wider social, fiscal, and political context, Laurence E. Lynn Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, and Carolyn J. Hill argue that ...
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich, Carolyn J. Hill, 2001
10
Improving On-the-Job Training: How to Establish and Operate ...
This second edition of the best-selling book, Improving On-The-Job Training, provides professional trainers, HR managers, and line managers with a hands-on resource for installing a low-cost, low tech approach to planned on-the-job training ...
William J. Rothwell, H. C. Kazanas, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMPROVING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term improving is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Secret To Improving A 16th-Century French Cloister? String | Co …
It's hard to improve upon a 16th century Gothic-style cloister, yet Parisian architects Atelier Yokyok did just that with Shooting Vaults, a series of ... «Co.Design, Jul 15»
2
Guest column: Rikers is improving, but reform takes time - NY Daily …
Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte says improving reforms will lead to cleaning up Rikers. After years of neglect and abuse, we are ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
3
Google needs your help improving its search engine rankings
Despite the fact that Google itself created the algorithms that drive its search rankings, it would appear that the Mountain View-based company ... «Engadget, Jul 15»
4
'No Rocket Science' to Improving Diabetes Care
There are so many tools in our toolbox now to treat people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, but especially type 2: nine classes of oral ... «Medscape, Jul 15»
5
Norristown 'greenway' study focuses on improving Stony Creek and …
NORRISTOWN >> In an effort to create vibrant greenways that connect Norristown's neighborhoods, the Montgomery County Planning ... «The Times Herald, Jul 15»
6
Injured Kiwi in Thailand improving | Otago Daily Times Online News …
Things are looking up for a New Zealand man recovering from severe injuries from a scooter crash in a Thailand hospital. Paul 'PJ' Lupi, 28, ... «Otago Daily Times, Jul 15»
7
Miles, LSU players talk about improving after 8-win season in 20 …
It's no secret that an eight-win season in 2014 didn't sit well with LSU fans, and it certainly won't going forward. Head coach Les Miles and his ... «WSFA, Jul 15»
8
Builders Are Most Upbeat Since 2005 on Improving U.S. Home …
Builders are more upbeat about the U.S. real-estate market than at any time in the last decade as better job prospects fuel home sales. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
9
NZ attitudes to Asian people improving - National - NZ Herald News
How do Kiwis really feel about Asian people? Results from a sprawling study show warmth toward Asians has been growing. Auckland ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
10
Outsiders noticing determination, focus of A's Semien on improving
Outsiders noticing determination, focus of A's Semien on improving ... in by Oakland to focus on improving the young infielder's defense. «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»

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