(a.) Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
(a.) Preferable in regard to rank, value, use, fitness, acceptableness, safety, or in any other respect.
(a.) Greater in amount; larger; more.
(a.) Improved in health; less affected with disease; as, the patient is better.
(a.) More advanced; more perfect; as, upon better acquaintance; a better knowledge of the subject.
(n.) Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy.
(n.) One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.
(compar.) In a superior or more excellent manner; with more skill and wisdom, courage, virtue, advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits.
(compar.) More correctly or thoroughly.
(compar.) In a higher or greater degree; more; as, to love one better than another.
(compar.) More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.; as, ten miles and better.
(a.) To improve or ameliorate; to increase the good qualities of.
(a.) To improve the condition of, morally, physically, financially, socially, or otherwise.
(a.) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
(a.) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
(v. i.) To become better; to improve.
(n.) One who bets or lays a wager.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(2) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(3) Plasma NPY correlated better with plasma norepinephrine than with epinephrine, indicating its origin from sympathetic nerve terminals.
(4) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(5) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(6) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(7) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
(8) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
(9) Patients in these groups had better postoperative analgesia.
(10) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
(11) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(12) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(13) The combination of methotrexate and cyclosporin is significantly better than either alone in controlling GVHD.
(14) In both instances the permeation rates of proteins can be better correlated to hydrodynamic radii than to molecular weights.
(15) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(16) The cell fermentation culture with a stabilized pH value was better than the culture with the pH value changing spontaneously on saponin content, growth rate and biomass.
(17) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
(18) A retrospective study was done in 86 patients on dialysis in order to evaluate the doses of aluminum hydroxide (OH3 Al) received to achieve a better serum phosphate control.
(19) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
(20) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
Outperform
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile Ukip is significantly outperforming its projected figure from most national polls, up 15 points on 23%, far above the 15% projected from national polling.
(2) British boys outperformed girls in science exercises by 20 percentage points – but the gap disappeared when the performances were adjusted for levels of self-confidence.
(3) Channel 4 said that despite "outperforming competitors in recent years" its economic model was being "continuously undermined by increased competition and a structural shift in advertising revenues from TV to online".
(4) Girls have also outperformed boys in terms of grades at A*-C. • In biology, physics and chemistry, girls outperform their male classmates at A* and A grades even though more boys than girls take these subjects.
(5) Sorrell warns ad industry against 'Don Draper-ish' optimism as Brexit vote looms Read more The company confirmed this week it would announce that from 2011 to 2015 WPP had outperformed its peers and the FTSE 100.
(6) For the quarter Europe, which has long been a dark spot for Ford, outperformed with sales rising 11%.
(7) The gilt's performance significantly outperformed others in the market on the day but fell back after the Bank took the "unprecedented step" of announcing it would not be buying it.
(8) He now expects TV ad revenue for the full year to be down 3% but expects the group to still outperform the UK TV ad market as whole.
(9) An analysis by the Guardian shows that most of the chief executives on the "decade of survival" list have steered their companies to outperform the FTSE 100 share index for most of their tenure.
(10) With figures adjusted for inflation , the 1965 release Thunderball is only a hair’s-breadth below Skyfall, while Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice both outperformed the other Craig films (as did the 70s Bonds, The Spy Who Loved Me and Live and Let Die).
(11) At the nine-month follow-up, while there were no statistically significant differences between the groups on any dependent measure, the E-group outperformed the C-group on all dependent measures.
(12) At lower rates of sludge application the swine outperformed those foraging both on control plots and those receiving heavy sludge applications in terms of weight gain, in-utero piglet survival, blood hemoglobin, and tissue Fe concentrations.
(13) Our titles continue to outperform, subscriptions have increased and we retain market share in many sectors.
(14) Discounters continue to grow sales faster than other food retailers, while Waitrose outperformed with a stellar sales growth of +12% in the four weeks to 18 August – helped by shoppers spending more per visit on food and drink – making them this period’s winner across the supermarket sector.
(15) Our democracies haven’t done a very good job in this globalised world.” That said, he doesn’t think the new party of the right, Alternative for Germany, may be the threat it appears (in elections earlier this month, it outperformed Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats ).
(16) In two-way avoidance paradigms, albinos appear to outperform pigmented rats.
(17) They also noted that the bank boss has presided over an increase in business loans and an astonishing bounceback in the Lloyds share price, which outperformed all other members of the FTSE 100 index of leading companies.
(18) At each testing interval, both mnemonic condition groups outperformed the placebo group.
(19) In addition, the younger adults outperformed the elderly in all mode by rate combinations; however, attenuated age differences in recall were observed for the bimodally presented sentences at a slow presentation rate.
(20) He also predicted that the company would outperform the wider supermarket sector over the next 12 months, which he expected to record positive like-for-like sales growth despite the continuing pressure on consumers.