Better vs Adjust - What's the difference?
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(good)
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larger, greater
* 1901 , ,
More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
To improve.
* Wordsworth
* Thackeray
* Macaulay
To become better; to improve.
To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
* Hooker
To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
* Milton
(slang) Had better.
An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
* Hooker
To modify.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
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To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
Better is a related term of adjust.
In lang=en terms the difference between better and adjust
is that better is to give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of while adjust is to change to fit circumstances.As verbs the difference between better and adjust
is that better is to improve while adjust is to modify.As an adjective better
is (good).As an adverb better
is .As a noun better
is an entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior or better can be .better
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) better, bettre, betre, from (etyl) .Adjective
(head)''Mal:'' Just the ones I'm ' better than. }}
Derived terms
* better dead than red * better half * better off * betterness * better part of * get betterAdverb
(head)- “I’ve had enough of cycling with you chaps. I can spend my Sundays better than in tormenting cats and quarrelling and fighting.”
- ten miles and better
Derived terms
* had better * 'd betterVerb
(en verb)- Love betters what is best.
- He thought to better his circumstances.
- the constant effort of every man to better himself
- (Carlyle)
- The works of nature do always aim at that which can not be bettered .
- Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
- You better do that if you know what's good for you.
Derived terms
* betterer * bettermentSynonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- He quickly found Ali his better in the ring.
- Their betters would hardly be found.
Derived terms
* get the better ofEtymology 2
Alternate pronunciation of (bettor) or modern formation from the verb to (bet).Statistics
* 1000 English basic words ----adjust
English
Verb
(en verb)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}