Verb (used with object) : He took vitamins to improve his health. ,He improved the stopover by seeing a client with offices there. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : The military situation is improving. ,None of the younger violinists have been able to improve on his interpretation of that work. From Dictionary.com.
Oly thing that seems to be improvable is the lection management. From Wordnik.com. [Should New Orleans be rebuilt? « BuzzMachine] Reference
Some of Verona society cast improvable aspersions. From Wordnik.com. [The Doge’s Gold Statue « A Fly in Amber] Reference
Bear constantly in mind that you are endlessly improvable. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
I frankly don't think a Drake's Coffee Cake is improvable. From Wordnik.com. [Ring Dings, From the Heart] Reference
Women are improvable; men are no, although their behavior is. From Wordnik.com. [The S.C.U.M. Manifesto] Reference
Let succuba succumb, the improvable his wealth made possible!. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
And I started crying when he said it's improvable but not fixable. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2002] Reference
LIN (voice-over): It was an improvable journey, he said so himself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2006] Reference
Ireland; and these again are more improvable than, the Scotish wastes. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 351, January 10, 1829] Reference
Why slog when everything about us is, if not improvable, one disposable fact?. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Laermer: The Five Year -- Oh Forget It Already] Reference
Think smart phones, distributed networks, intraoperability and locally improvable. From Wordnik.com. [John Kenagy: Ensuring Investment in Healthcare Information Technology Does Not Flatline] Reference
They understood that we are all imperfect, but society is, nonetheless, improvable. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At Millennium Lecture] Reference
There is no way that calling Obama's claim to be an improvable fairy tale is racial. From Wordnik.com. [It is the Obama Campaign Who Has Been Playing the Race Card All Along] Reference
He has no faiths, except for an impersonal belief that he and his lot are indefinitely improvable. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
Unlike the eminently improvable Amelia, or the anxious and ambitious type that includes Ellen of The Wide. From Wordnik.com. [Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment] Reference
It's not the writing that slows me down; it's the planning and conceptual work, and that should be improvable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-07] Reference
Yet, with all these favourable appearances, no conceding moment to be found, no improvable tenderness to be raised. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The intention is not to touch upon every improvable situation, every possible disease, or every water scheme design. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
We engage in inquiry, Dewey thought, as part of a struggle with an objectively precarious but improvable environment. From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Political Philosophy] Reference
They also create their own set of equally improvable other-worldly rewards and punishments associated with the faith. From Wordnik.com. [faith. | Mind on Fire] Reference
This, which was mentioned, I suppose, to show the improvable character of the land, would have given another some pain. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of the Canongate] Reference
I think my inclination would be the same for my early posts, even though some of them I already see as being improvable. From Wordnik.com. [Your Blog Archives: To Cull or Not to Cull? | Write to Done] Reference
Why-oh-why are these parents so irresponsibly instilling in their daughters the idea that their appearance is improvable?. From Wordnik.com. [Verena von Pfetten: Kids Get Colored: Highlights Go To New Lows] Reference
While not very efficient, they are sufficient and improvable, a great example of things not having to be perfect to be enough. From Wordnik.com. [Rabett Run] Reference
Tho 'this wretched Island is the most improvable, and the least improved Part of the habitable Earth, we drive away from us our. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753] Reference
It does have mild tranquilizing properties, and perhaps a relaxed feeling is the basis for this otherwise improvable assertion. From Wordnik.com. [Food For Valentine's Day: Mexican Native Aphrodisiacs] Reference
In other words, technology was not the solution; technology was a flexible, improvable tool that was used to accelerate the solution. From Wordnik.com. [John Kenagy: Ensuring Investment in Healthcare Information Technology Does Not Flatline] Reference
Think smart phones, portability, distributed networks, intraoperability, personal substitutability of programs and locally improvable. From Wordnik.com. [John Kenagy: An Obama Health Care Reform Scorecard] Reference
Instead, problem-solve the system when it fails by creating safe, testable, viable and improvable experiments as part of every day work. From Wordnik.com. [John Kenagy: My Healthcare Reform Fear - It's Not Who Pays, It's What We Get] Reference
And the thing that makes it improvable is there are still too many who don't, or there are still people who find folks standing in the way. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At Dnc Dinner A] Reference
Expect it to be much more improvable or even being erroneous. From Wordnik.com. [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference
I should apprehend this bog to be among the most improvable in the country. From Wordnik.com. [A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779] Reference
'You came out with that valuable improvable freehold, the Terrace, I suppose?'. From Wordnik.com. [Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2] Reference
This power is, perhaps, given by nature, but is doubtless improvable, if not acquirable, by art. From Wordnik.com. [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference
That time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
We had an optimism that man was improvable, he could do it himself, and this pervaded our household. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
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