Improve vs Reclaim - What's the difference?
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(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.
(senseid)To return land to a suitable condition for use.
To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
* Milton
* Rogers
* Sir E. Hoby
To claim something back; to repossess.
To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
* Dryden
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
* Dryden
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
* Waterland
* Bain
(obsolete, rare) To draw back; to give way.
(obsolete, falconry) The calling back of a hawk.
(obsolete) The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
In transitive terms the difference between improve and reclaim
is that improve is to make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something) while reclaim is to tame or domesticate a wild animal.In obsolete terms the difference between improve and reclaim
is that improve is to disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure while reclaim is the bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.As a noun reclaim is
the calling back of a hawk.improve
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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.}}
Synonyms
* (to make something better) ameliorate, better, batten, enhance * See alsoAntonyms
* (to make something worse) deteriorate, worsen * (to become worse) deteriorate, worsenDerived terms
* improvementreclaim
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Verb
(en verb)- They, hardened more by what might most reclaim , / Grieving to see his glory took envy.
- It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
- Your error, in time reclaimed , will be venial.
- an eagle well reclaimed
- The headstrong horses hurried Octavius along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
- Scripture reclaims', and the whole Catholic church ' reclaims , and Christian ears would not hear it.
- At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
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Noun
(en noun)- The louing couple need no reskew feare, / But leasure had, and libertie to frame / Their purpost flight, free from all mens reclame [...].