different between boost vs improvement

English

Etymology

Of unknown origin. The verb is first recorded 1815; the noun, 1825. Compare Scots boost (“to move; drive off; shoo away”), bost, boast (“to threaten; scold”), Middle English boosten, bosten (“to threaten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?st/
• Rhymes: -u?st

Noun

boost (plural boosts)

1. A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb.
2. Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance.

3. (physics) A coordinate transformation that changes velocity.
4. (automotive engineering) A positive intake manifold pressure in cars with turbochargers or superchargers.

Derived terms

• battery booster
• booster
• boosterism

Translations

Verb

boost (third-person singular simple present boosts, present participle boosting, simple past and past participle boosted)

1. (transitive) To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up.
2. (transitive, by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles.

   This campaign will boost your chances of winning the election.

3. (slang, transitive) To steal.
   • 1978, Harold J. Vetter, Ira J. Silverman, The Nature of Crime (page 296)

     It is not at all unusual or suspicious for a woman to spend a good deal of the day out shopping, and feminine clothing styles often make it relatively easy for a female shoplifter to conceal "boosted" merchandise on her person.

4. (Canada, transitive) To jump-start a vehicle by using cables to connect the battery in a running vehicle to the battery in a vehicle that won't start.
   • 1980, Popular Mechanics (volume 154, number 4, page 152)

     It's easy to boost a dead battery, but this can be dangerous if it's done the wrong way.

   • 2004, "Doug Mitchell", how to connect for boost? (on newsgroup alt.autos.gm)

     If I want to use the charged Montana battery to boost my old Summit where do I connect the negative cable on the good battery of the Montana?
5. (transitive, medicine) To give a booster shot to.
6. (transitive, engineering) To amplify; to signal boost.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• overboost
• upboost

Translations

Anagrams

• Boots, boots, botos

English

Alternative forms

• emprovement (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman emprouwement; synchronically improve +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?u?vm?nt/
• Hyphenation: im?prove?ment

Noun

improvement (countable and uncountable, plural improvements)

1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
   • November 9, 1662, Robert South, Of the Creation of Man in the Image of God

     I look upon your city as […] the best place of improvement.

   • 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

     Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties.
2. The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
   • 1705, Samuel Clarke, Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion

     good improvement of his reason.

   • 1681, John Tillotson, A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Mr Thomas Gouge

     I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.

3. The state of being improved; betterment; advance
4. Something which is improved

   • The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.

5. Increase; growth; progress; advance.

   • Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity.

6. (in the plural) Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
7. (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.

Synonyms

• improval, amelioration

Antonyms

• worsening
• deterioration
• disimprovement

Hyponyms

• self-improvement

Derived terms

• disimprovement

See also

• uplift

Translations

References

improvement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English improvement.

Noun

improvement m (invariable)

1. (rare) improvement

   Synonyms: miglioramento, perfezionamento