improvedadj.

Brit.

/ɪmˈpruːvd/, U.S.

/ᵻmˈpruvd/

Forms: see improve v.² and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: improve v.², -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < improve v.² + -ed suffix¹.

1. Increased in cost or monetary value.Chiefly (and in later use only) of rent, now merging with sense 5a.

ΚΠ

1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints iii. f. 45 Improued rentes.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 37^v They will rather take bargaines, at these excessiue fines, then a tolerable improued rent, being in no sort willing to ouer a penny.

a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) iv. 30 God does not sell him back againe to his parents, at a racked, at an improved price.

1652 Answer Severall Petitions Tithes 24 Above the yearly Revennue of one million of pounds at improoved Rates.

1737 W. Lee Ess. Value of Leases & Annuities 39 Would any Tenant of common Sense pay, a Fine for such Part of the improved Rent as was to be abated or discounted for the Land-Tax and Repairs?

1777 J. Throsby Mem. Town & County Leicester V. xxxii. 53 The improved estates of that gentleman's donation.

1831 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 6 42 The whole profit of the improved price of all the cloth that he could make himself.

1856 H. W. Woolrych Metrop. Building Act with Notes 2 The compensation was to be made by the owner or owners who should be entitled to the improved rent of the adjoining building or ground.

1908 A. Pell Reminiscences 334 Deducting..this sum from the improved rent of 5s. 8d., we arrive at a net financial gain of 3s. 2d. per acre.

2008 E. Shapiro et al. Mod. Methods Valuation iii. 30 Head lessees..might sublease the property at an improved rent.

†2. Of a person, a person's manners, etc.: intellectually or socially superior; cultured, refined. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [adjective] > cultured

polite1601

improved1617

cultivated1645

well-cultured1760

cultured1777

high-minded1827

highbrow1908

kulturny1955

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated

wroughtOE

subact?1440

laboured1470

tilled1546

well-cultured1555

well-laboured1571

husbanded1578

toiled1578

well-husbanded1581

cultive1611

improved1617

cultivated1622

well-cultivated1650

manured1746

well-farmed1770

reduced1794

farmed1800

tillaged1854

tilthed1866

tame1887

1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell ii. sig. D3 The most improude yong souldier of seuen kingdoms.

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 51 in Scepsis Scientifica That great man, the excellence of whose Philosophick genius and performances, the most improv'd spirits acknowledge.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 58 Two or three Men, of the best and most improved Understanding.

1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. Pref. 3 Technical and metaphorical terms, which the mutuation of refined arts and improved manners might have occasionally introduced.

1801 H. Davy Let. 14 Nov. in Life (1831) iii. 87 You should fix your permanent residence in London, where..you can..instruct and delight numbers of improved men.

3. Of land, a region, etc.: brought into use as agricultural or pastoral land; cultivated; developed. Cf. improve v.² 2b. Chiefly U.S., Australian, and New Zealand. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [adjective]

improved1619

1619 R. Tillesley Animadversions Seldens Hist. Tithes 182 A fit proportion for such a purpose, especially being onely of new Improoued Land, De terra quam colui de nouo, and that might not bee much in that Parish.

1644 in J. Merrill Hist. Amesbury, Mass. (1880) 29 The improved lands..upon ye west side of ye Powwaus river.

1684 in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1862) IV. 68/2 He should have liberty to make use of part of ye improved & broken up ground upon ye sd ffarme.

1759 N.Y. Mercury 9 July 2/2 s60 (advt.) A Map of the improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania.

1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 78 The climate, soil, natural produce, and improved state of it, are much the same as of Rhode Island.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. i. i. 3 The Netherlands, at that time the most improved and commercial part of Europe.

1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life 11 I was better off than many, for we had purchased an ‘improved station’.

1882 T. H. Potts Out in Open 42 As they [sc. quail-hawks] approach the confines of cultivation and improved lands, a large proportion of them are shot.

1933 N. Scanlan Tides of Youth 41 I can't afford to buy improved land, so I must take up a block of bush, and..clear it.

1986 Canberra Times 5 Mar. 18/4 The spread of improved pasture in inland Australia provided ideal conditions for the great 20th-century galah boom.

2008 D. E. Nye Amer. as Second Creation iii. 47 Sales of improved lands to new people were generally supervised by the town.

†4. That has been turned to good account or made good use of. Obsolete. rare.Recorded earliest in well-improved adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective] > turned to account

improveda1643

a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 205 What a fruitful gain is to be made of our well-improved-afflictions!

1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia xix. iv. 354 Their mindes look upon the lovely Image of redeemed and improved time.

a. Made better or more serviceable; brought into a more desirable state or condition.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [adjective] > improved

ybetc1000

amendeda1382

bettered?1533

mended1548

well-improveda1643

improved1648

meliorated1657

enriched1691

ameliorated1788

stepped1933

uprated1967

1648 J. Bulwer Philocophus 182 His improved Eye must needes be very quick in conceiving the visible sound of speech.

1692 State of Parties 3 The Change that the improved Art of Navigation has made in the World.

c1710 (title) Preceptor for improved octave flageolet.

1767 Monthly Rev. 36 App. 562 So daring is modern surgery, in consequence of the very improved state of the art, that it has been proposed to push a trocart into the pericardium.

1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. x. 222 All the joys and comforts she had in store, in consequence of her improved circumstances.

1849 R. V. Dixon Treat. Heat i. ii. 147 An improved air-pump of his own construction.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 193/2 The Suffolk..probably took its origin in the crossing of improved Southdown rams with the old horned Norfolk ewes.

1948 Specif. Inventions, Patent Spec. 617/176 A ball point pen of new and improved construction.

1970 New Scientist 3 Dec. 374/1 Improved international cooperation should limit overexploitation of important [fish] stocks.

2008 Independent 18 Mar. (Extra section) 12/1 The ‘Mozart effect’..has been linked to benefits as diverse as improved mathematical skills..and improved performance on eye tests.

b. spec. Less severely affected by an illness or medical condition; in better health.

ΚΠ

1821 W. Prout Gravel, Calculus, & Other Dis. i. iii. 70 He felt improved, and the diarrhoea ceased.

1882 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homœopathy Feb. 456 On her return she informed me she was much improved in every way.

1913 Pop. Electr. Mar. 1161/1 Possibly I felt improved to some slight extent but I could have laid it as well to atmospheric exhilaration as to the electricity.

1974 L. Horwitz Clin. Predict. in Psychotherapy ix. 185 Four cases in this group of improved patients were expected to have a predominantly supportive treatment.

2006 A. Vaill Somewhere xxv. 454 Frazier thought he was improved enough to leave, and he went home to New York.

†6. Made greater in amount or degree, increased, enlarged; (in negative sense) exacerbated. Obsolete.In later use merging with sense 5a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increased

grown1340

added?a1425

multiplied1463

increased1552

amplified1573

vantaged1578

augmented1605

swelleda1616

swollena1631

auct1652

improved1661

aggrandized1689

manifolded1767

jacked-up1920

1661 Baxter's Explic. Catholick Church 55 in W. Johnson Novelty Represt And how lame is your Tradition, when it is carried on your private Affirmations, and is nothing but the improved Saying of a Sect.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. xi. 251 The natural and improved Imperfections of Language.

1791 J. Bentham Panopticon I. x. 55 Among working men..I know of no test of reformation so plain or so sure as the improved quantity and value of their work.

1831 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 11) II. 521 A scale containing numbers only may be used with facility, the names of substances being in this case imagined to be placed on the fixed part of the instrument, opposite to their representative figures; and it has this great advantage, that it does not require alteration to accommodate it to improved numbers.

1892 E. P. Elmhirst Fox-hound, Forest & Prairie 76 The presence of the former [sc. farmers] in greatly improved numbers, points to better times, and to a relief from the pressure of ill-luck that has so long weighed them down.

Compounds

improved wood n. material consisting of thin sheets of wood bonded to each other by films of synthetic resin so that it is more resistant to distortion and shrinkage than natural wood.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > wood-based materials > [noun] > plywood

plywood1907

laminboard1927

ply1929

plyboard1929

block-board1932

improved wood1937

multi-ply1940

glulam1953

1937 Flight 16 Dec. Suppl. p. d/1 The ‘Improved Wood’, as we call our material, is built up of a number of thin veneers.

1963 A. D. Wood Plywoods of World iv. 138 Improved wood is the product of a combination of veneers..interleaved with a synthetic resin glue film.

2002 R. Burdon in Pines of Silvicultural Importance (CAB International) 376 Gypsum board; particleboard; oriented strandboard; fibreboard; hardboard; medium density fibreboard; improved wood.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	improved
释义	improvedadj. Brit. /ɪmˈpruːvd/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpruvd/ Forms: see improve v.² and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: improve v.², -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < improve v.² + -ed suffix¹. 1. Increased in cost or monetary value.Chiefly (and in later use only) of rent, now merging with sense 5a. ΚΠ 1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints iii. f. 45 Improued rentes. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 37^v They will rather take bargaines, at these excessiue fines, then a tolerable improued rent, being in no sort willing to ouer a penny. a1631 J. Donne LXXX Serm. (1640) iv. 30 God does not sell him back againe to his parents, at a racked, at an improved price. 1652 Answer Severall Petitions Tithes 24 Above the yearly Revennue of one million of pounds at improoved Rates. 1737 W. Lee Ess. Value of Leases & Annuities 39 Would any Tenant of common Sense pay, a Fine for such Part of the improved Rent as was to be abated or discounted for the Land-Tax and Repairs? 1777 J. Throsby Mem. Town & County Leicester V. xxxii. 53 The improved estates of that gentleman's donation. 1831 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 6 42 The whole profit of the improved price of all the cloth that he could make himself. 1856 H. W. Woolrych Metrop. Building Act with Notes 2 The compensation was to be made by the owner or owners who should be entitled to the improved rent of the adjoining building or ground. 1908 A. Pell Reminiscences 334 Deducting..this sum from the improved rent of 5s. 8d., we arrive at a net financial gain of 3s. 2d. per acre. 2008 E. Shapiro et al. Mod. Methods Valuation iii. 30 Head lessees..might sublease the property at an improved rent. †2. Of a person, a person's manners, etc.: intellectually or socially superior; cultured, refined. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > humanistic studies > [adjective] > cultured polite1601 improved1617 cultivated1645 well-cultured1760 cultured1777 high-minded1827 highbrow1908 kulturny1955 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cultivated wroughtOE subact?1440 laboured1470 tilled1546 well-cultured1555 well-laboured1571 husbanded1578 toiled1578 well-husbanded1581 cultive1611 improved1617 cultivated1622 well-cultivated1650 manured1746 well-farmed1770 reduced1794 farmed1800 tillaged1854 tilthed1866 tame1887 1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell ii. sig. D3 The most improude yong souldier of seuen kingdoms. 1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 51 in Scepsis Scientifica That great man, the excellence of whose Philosophick genius and performances, the most improv'd spirits acknowledge. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 58 Two or three Men, of the best and most improved Understanding. 1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. Pref. 3 Technical and metaphorical terms, which the mutuation of refined arts and improved manners might have occasionally introduced. 1801 H. Davy Let. 14 Nov. in Life (1831) iii. 87 You should fix your permanent residence in London, where..you can..instruct and delight numbers of improved men. 3. Of land, a region, etc.: brought into use as agricultural or pastoral land; cultivated; developed. Cf. improve v.² 2b. Chiefly U.S., Australian, and New Zealand. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [adjective] improved1619 1619 R. Tillesley Animadversions Seldens Hist. Tithes 182 A fit proportion for such a purpose, especially being onely of new Improoued Land, De terra quam colui de nouo, and that might not bee much in that Parish. 1644 in J. Merrill Hist. Amesbury, Mass. (1880) 29 The improved lands..upon ye west side of ye Powwaus river. 1684 in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1862) IV. 68/2 He should have liberty to make use of part of ye improved & broken up ground upon ye sd ffarme. 1759 N.Y. Mercury 9 July 2/2 s60 (advt.) A Map of the improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania. 1775 A. Burnaby Trav. Middle Settlements N.-Amer. 78 The climate, soil, natural produce, and improved state of it, are much the same as of Rhode Island. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. i. i. 3 The Netherlands, at that time the most improved and commercial part of Europe. 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life 11 I was better off than many, for we had purchased an ‘improved station’. 1882 T. H. Potts Out in Open 42 As they [sc. quail-hawks] approach the confines of cultivation and improved lands, a large proportion of them are shot. 1933 N. Scanlan Tides of Youth 41 I can't afford to buy improved land, so I must take up a block of bush, and..clear it. 1986 Canberra Times 5 Mar. 18/4 The spread of improved pasture in inland Australia provided ideal conditions for the great 20th-century galah boom. 2008 D. E. Nye Amer. as Second Creation iii. 47 Sales of improved lands to new people were generally supervised by the town. †4. That has been turned to good account or made good use of. Obsolete. rare.Recorded earliest in well-improved adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > [adjective] > turned to account improveda1643 a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 205 What a fruitful gain is to be made of our well-improved-afflictions! 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia xix. iv. 354 Their mindes look upon the lovely Image of redeemed and improved time. 5. a. Made better or more serviceable; brought into a more desirable state or condition. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [adjective] > improved ybetc1000 amendeda1382 bettered?1533 mended1548 well-improveda1643 improved1648 meliorated1657 enriched1691 ameliorated1788 stepped1933 uprated1967 1648 J. Bulwer Philocophus 182 His improved Eye must needes be very quick in conceiving the visible sound of speech. 1692 State of Parties 3 The Change that the improved Art of Navigation has made in the World. c1710 (title) Preceptor for improved octave flageolet. 1767 Monthly Rev. 36 App. 562 So daring is modern surgery, in consequence of the very improved state of the art, that it has been proposed to push a trocart into the pericardium. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. x. 222 All the joys and comforts she had in store, in consequence of her improved circumstances. 1849 R. V. Dixon Treat. Heat i. ii. 147 An improved air-pump of his own construction. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 193/2 The Suffolk..probably took its origin in the crossing of improved Southdown rams with the old horned Norfolk ewes. 1948 Specif. Inventions, Patent Spec. 617/176 A ball point pen of new and improved construction. 1970 New Scientist 3 Dec. 374/1 Improved international cooperation should limit overexploitation of important [fish] stocks. 2008 Independent 18 Mar. (Extra section) 12/1 The ‘Mozart effect’..has been linked to benefits as diverse as improved mathematical skills..and improved performance on eye tests. b. spec. Less severely affected by an illness or medical condition; in better health. ΚΠ 1821 W. Prout Gravel, Calculus, & Other Dis. i. iii. 70 He felt improved, and the diarrhoea ceased. 1882 N. Amer. Jrnl. Homœopathy Feb. 456 On her return she informed me she was much improved in every way. 1913 Pop. Electr. Mar. 1161/1 Possibly I felt improved to some slight extent but I could have laid it as well to atmospheric exhilaration as to the electricity. 1974 L. Horwitz Clin. Predict. in Psychotherapy ix. 185 Four cases in this group of improved patients were expected to have a predominantly supportive treatment. 2006 A. Vaill Somewhere xxv. 454 Frazier thought he was improved enough to leave, and he went home to New York. †6. Made greater in amount or degree, increased, enlarged; (in negative sense) exacerbated. Obsolete.In later use merging with sense 5a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increased grown1340 added?a1425 multiplied1463 increased1552 amplified1573 vantaged1578 augmented1605 swelleda1616 swollena1631 auct1652 improved1661 aggrandized1689 manifolded1767 jacked-up1920 1661 Baxter's Explic. Catholick Church 55 in W. Johnson Novelty Represt And how lame is your Tradition, when it is carried on your private Affirmations, and is nothing but the improved Saying of a Sect. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. xi. 251 The natural and improved Imperfections of Language. 1791 J. Bentham Panopticon I. x. 55 Among working men..I know of no test of reformation so plain or so sure as the improved quantity and value of their work. 1831 W. Henry Elements Exper. Chem. (ed. 11) II. 521 A scale containing numbers only may be used with facility, the names of substances being in this case imagined to be placed on the fixed part of the instrument, opposite to their representative figures; and it has this great advantage, that it does not require alteration to accommodate it to improved numbers. 1892 E. P. Elmhirst Fox-hound, Forest & Prairie 76 The presence of the former [sc. farmers] in greatly improved numbers, points to better times, and to a relief from the pressure of ill-luck that has so long weighed them down. Compounds improved wood n. material consisting of thin sheets of wood bonded to each other by films of synthetic resin so that it is more resistant to distortion and shrinkage than natural wood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > wood-based materials > [noun] > plywood plywood1907 laminboard1927 ply1929 plyboard1929 block-board1932 improved wood1937 multi-ply1940 glulam1953 1937 Flight 16 Dec. Suppl. p. d/1 The ‘Improved Wood’, as we call our material, is built up of a number of thin veneers. 1963 A. D. Wood Plywoods of World iv. 138 Improved wood is the product of a combination of veneers..interleaved with a synthetic resin glue film. 2002 R. Burdon in Pines of Silvicultural Importance (CAB International) 376 Gypsum board; particleboard; oriented strandboard; fibreboard; hardboard; medium density fibreboard; improved wood. 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