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improved, ppl. a.|ɪmˈpruːvd|
[f. improve v.2 + -ed1.]
1. Under cultivation; cultivated, cultured.
1617Middleton & Rowley Fair Quarrel ii. D iij, The most improude yong souldier of seuen kingdoms. 1644in J. Merrill Hist. Amesbury, Mass. (1880) 29 The improved lands..upon ye west side of ye Powwaus river. 1736Butler Analogy i. iii. 82 Two or three men of the best and most improved understanding. 1775A. Burnaby Trav. N. Amer. 78 The climate, soil, natural produce, and improved state of it, are much the same as of Rhode Island. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India I. i. i. 3 At that time the most improved and commercial part of Europe.
2. Turned to good account.
1641J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 205 What a fruitful gain is to be made of our well-improved-afflictions!
†3. Made greater, increased, enhanced; aggravated. Obs.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. xi. §1 The natural and improv'd Imperfections of Language.
4. Made better or more serviceable; brought to a higher or more desirable condition.
1713Steele Guardian No. 2 ⁋3 He left behind him an improved paternal estate of six thousand pounds a year. 1799H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. I. Pref. 7 This new and improved Translation. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. I. 222 In consequence of her improved circumstances. 1817J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 263 Improved implements and methods. 1849R. V. Dixon Heat i. ii. 147 An improved air-pump of his own construction.
5. improved wood, thin sheets of wood attached to each other by films of synthetic resin, thus improving its resistance to distortion, shrinkage, etc.
1940Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLIV. 673 It..could be expected that..composite wood plastics, like..‘improved’ wood, such as commonly used in the modern aeroplane manufacture, would be suitable for the construction of petrol containers. 1957N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Aug. 59/2 Certain commercial treatments to prevent movement owing to moisture variation in wood, have resulted in what is termed ‘improved wood’. 1963A. D. Wood Plywoods of World iv. 138 Improved wood is the product of a combination of veneers..interleaved with a synthetic resin glue film. |