Improvement vs Plus - What's the difference?
improvement | plus | Related terms |
The act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote, promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
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, title= The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
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The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
* (Joseph Addison)
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
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(plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
(Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
sum of the previous one and the following one.
(colloquial) with; having in addition
and also; in addition
A positive quantity.
An asset or useful addition.
(arithmetic) A plus sign: .
Being positive rather than negative or zero.
Positive, or involving advantage.
(physics) Electrically positive.
(informal) To add; to subject to addition.
Improvement is a related term of plus.
As nouns the difference between improvement and plus
is that improvement is the act of improving]]; advancement or growth; [[promote|promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc while plus is plus.improvement
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* emprovement (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- I look upon your city as the best place of improvement .
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- A good improvement of his reason.
- I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
- The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
- There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
- Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.
Synonyms
* improvalplus
English
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Two plus two equals four.
- A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.
- I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred Euros' spending money!
- Let's go home now, it's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.
Synonyms
* andAntonyms
* minusDerived terms
* plus signNoun
(en-noun)- He is a real plus to the team.
Synonyms
* (useful addition) asset * plus signAntonyms
* (useful addition) liability, minus * minus, minus signAdjective
(-)- -2 * -2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")
- He is a plus factor.
- A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.
