"improve" meaning in Anglais

See improve in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: \ɪm.ˈpruːv\, \ɪm.ˈpruːv\, ɪm.ˈpruːv Audio: En-us-improve.ogg Forms: to improve [infinitive], improves [present, third-person, singular], improved [preterite], improved [participle, past], improving [participle, present]
  1. Améliorer. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: fr-improve-en-verb-55mJva8K Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire, Verbes transitifs en anglais
  2. S’améliorer. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: fr-improve-en-verb-AsVIjIHw Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire, Verbes intransitifs en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: ameliorate [formal], enhance Derived forms: improvement

Inflected forms

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "translation": "empirer",
      "word": "worsen"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Lemmes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Verbes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "translation": "amélioration",
      "word": "improvement"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "to improve",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruːv\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improves",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruːvz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improved",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruːvd\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improved",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruːvd\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improving",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruː.vɪŋ\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Verbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Verbes transitifs en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Painting the woodwork will improve this house."
        },
        {
          "text": "Buying more servers would improve performance."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Christian Mayer, Python One-Liners, No Starch Press, 2020, page xxi",
          "text": "In many cases, rewriting a piece of code as a Python one-liner will improve readability and make the code more Pythonic."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Améliorer."
      ],
      "id": "fr-improve-en-verb-55mJva8K",
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Verbes intransitifs en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I have improved since taking the tablets."
        },
        {
          "text": "The error messages have improved."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "S’améliorer."
      ],
      "id": "fr-improve-en-verb-AsVIjIHw",
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɪm.ˈpruːv\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɪm.ˈpruːv\\"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-improve.ogg",
      "ipa": "ɪm.ˈpruːv",
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      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-improve.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "word": "ameliorate"
    },
    {
      "word": "enhance"
    }
  ],
  "word": "improve"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "translation": "empirer",
      "word": "worsen"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Lemmes en anglais",
    "Verbes en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "translation": "amélioration",
      "word": "improvement"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "to improve",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruːv\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improves",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruːvz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improved",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruːvd\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "preterite"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improved",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruːvd\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "improving",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ɪm.ˈpruː.vɪŋ\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "Verbe",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Verbes transitifs en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Painting the woodwork will improve this house."
        },
        {
          "text": "Buying more servers would improve performance."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Christian Mayer, Python One-Liners, No Starch Press, 2020, page xxi",
          "text": "In many cases, rewriting a piece of code as a Python one-liner will improve readability and make the code more Pythonic."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Améliorer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Verbes intransitifs en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I have improved since taking the tablets."
        },
        {
          "text": "The error messages have improved."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "S’améliorer."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɪm.ˈpruːv\\"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "\\ɪm.ˈpruːv\\"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-improve.ogg",
      "ipa": "ɪm.ˈpruːv",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/En-us-improve.ogg/En-us-improve.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-us-improve.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "États-Unis"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ],
      "word": "ameliorate"
    },
    {
      "word": "enhance"
    }
  ],
  "word": "improve"
}

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