Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: improves
IPA transcription: [,ɪmpɹ'uvz]
Pronunciations of improves
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Usage examples
  • A little rice boiled with it, improves the looks of it.
  • Roasted coffee loses from 20 to 30 per cent, by sufficient roasting, and the powder suffers much by exposure to the air; but, while raw, it not only does not lose its flavour for a year or two, but improves by keeping.
  • He enriches the soil, improves the varieties of animals, he even in some slight degree affects the climate, and by the use of a multitude of artificial bits of matter called tools, works profound changes in the world in which he lives.
  • Let moralists say what they will, the human understanding is greatly indebted to the passions, which, on their side, are likewise universally allowed to be greatly indebted to the human understanding. It is by the activity of our passions, that our reason improves: we covet knowledge merely because we covet enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a man exempt from fears and desires should take the trouble to reason.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Yttrium, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Titan (moon), License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Human, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Subarachnoid hemorrhage, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Stuttering, License CC BY-SA 4.0