Add vs Improve - What's the difference?
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To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally.
* (rfdate) (John Locke)
To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
* 1611 , King James Version, Genesis 30:24:
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost):
To append, as a statement; to say further.
* 1855 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England from the Accession of James the Second , volume 3, page 37 [http://books.google.com/books?id=w_M9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA37&dq=added]:
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 23
To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase.
* 1611 , King James Version, 1 Kings 12:14:
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, title= (mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
(video games) An additional enemy that joined the fight after the primary target.
(computer science) An act or instance of adding.
(lb) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
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, title= (lb) To become better.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving ,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
(lb) To disprove or make void; to refute.
*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another cannot improve .
(lb) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
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*(William Tyndale) (1494-1536)
*:When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing.
(lb) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
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*(Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
*:We shall especially honour God by improving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
*:a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved
*(William Blackstone) (1723-1780)
*:The court seldom fails to improve the opportunity.
*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour.
*(George Washington) (1732-1799)
*:True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.
As a noun add
is .As a verb improve is
(lb) to make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).add
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Verb
(en verb)- as easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years.
- The LORD shall add to me another son.
- Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
- He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax
- "Bless your dear heart," she said, "I am sure I can tell you of a way to get back to Kansas." Then she added , "But, if I do, you must give me the Golden Cap."
- I will add to your yoke
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.
Synonyms
* annex * coalesce * join * unite * mention, noteAntonyms
* (quantity) subtract * (matter) removeUsage notes
* We add by bringing things together so as to form a whole. * We join by putting one thing to another in close or continuous connection. * We annex by attaching some adjunct to a larger body. * We unite by bringing things together so that their parts adhere or intermingle. * Things coalesce by coming together or mingling so as to form one organization. * To add' quantities; to '''join''' houses; to '''annex''' territory; to '''unite''' kingdoms; to make parties ' coalesceDerived terms
* * addition * additive * add-on * add upNoun
(en noun)- After engaging the boss for one minute, two adds will arrive from the back and must be dealt with.
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Alternative forms
* emprove (obsolete)Verb
(improv)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}