different between improve vs devel

English

Alternative forms

• emprove (obsolete)

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman emprouwer, from Old French en- + prou (“profit”), from Vulgar Latin prode (“advantageous, profitable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?u?v/
• Rhymes: -u?v

Verb

improve (third-person singular simple present improves, present participle improving, simple past and past participle improved)

1. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
2. (intransitive) To become better.

   • “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.”

3. (obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
   • 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man

     Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another cannot improve.

4. (obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
   • 1528, William Tyndale, The Obedience of a Christian Man

     When he rehearsed his preachings and his doing unto the high apostles, they could improve nothing.

5. (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Reward of Honouring God (sermon)

     We shall especially honour God, by discharging faithfully those offices which God hath entrusted us with: by improving diligently those talents which God hath committed to us

   • a hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved

   • the court has also an opportunity, which it seldom fails to improve.

   • 1715, Isaac Watts, Against Idleness and Mischief

     How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour.

   • March 7, 1778, George Washington, letter

     True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.

Synonyms

• (to make something better): ameliorate, better, batten, enhance; See also Thesaurus:improve

Antonyms

• (to make something worse): deteriorate, worsen; See also Thesaurus:aggravate
• (to become worse): deteriorate, worsen; See also Thesaurus:worsen

Derived terms

• improvement
• improver
• improving

Translations

Further reading

• "improve" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 160.

English

Noun

devel (plural devels)

1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel

Verb

devel (third-person singular simple present devels, present participle develling, simple past and past participle develled)

1. (Scotland) Alternative spelling of devvel

Anagrams

• delve

Middle English

Alternative forms

• deovel, deevel, devil, dyvel, devul, devyl, devell, devyll, deul, dewel, deyle, devull, dele

Etymology

From Old English d?ofol, d?oful, from earlier d?obul, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diábolos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?de?v?l/, /?d?v?l/, /de?l/

Noun

devel (plural develes or defles or develen)

1. Satan, Lucifer (in Early ME, without the definite article)
2. A devil; an evil creature that resides in Christian hell in Christianity
3. A pagan or heretical god; a deity considered to be false or an idol.
4. (figuratively) A malicious or sinful person; one who is evil.
5. (rare) A fantastic beast or monstrous creature.

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: devil (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: deil, deel, deevil
• Yola: deevil

References

• “d??vel, devel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

Romani

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (deva), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.

Noun

devel m (plural devela)

1. god

Derived terms

Descendants

• Caló: debel

References

• Y?suke Sumi (2018) , “devel”, in ??????????????????? [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, ?ISBN, page 136