Transformation vs Improve - What's the difference?
transformation | improve |
The act of transforming or the state of being transformed.
A marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better.
(mathematics) The replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system.
(linguistics) A rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule.
(genetics) The alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic.
(politics, South Africa) Ideologically driven government policy - becoming more conformant with socialist and African nationalist groupthink.
(lb) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
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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 transformation
is .As a verb improve is
(lb) to make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).transformation
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(wikipedia transformation)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* metamorphosis * transmogrification * transmutation * transfigurationDerived terms
* transformationalimprove
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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.}}
