What's the difference between better and super?

Better


Definition:

  • (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.

Super


Definition:

  • (n.) A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (2) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
  • (3) 5) Super-infection with HDV of an HBsAg-positive household contact was significantly predicted by female sex of the index case and by anti-HDV positivity.
  • (4) With their 43-8 win , the Seahawks did more than just produce one of the most dominant performances in Super Bowl history, they gave the city of Seattle its first major professional sports win in 35 years .
  • (5) Super City have Gone Holistic, to borrow the buzzword they introduced after Pellegrini had replaced Mancini.
  • (6) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
  • (7) The Amazonian super heroine was dropped from the role less than two months later.
  • (8) Then, the males with super-unstable oc-mutations were crossed with females with attached X chromosomes, supporting P-M hybrid dysgenesis.
  • (9) She began on Friday by urging Republican women at a convention to “look at this face”, meaning her own, condemned Trump’s remarks as “unpresidential”, and then the Super Pac campaigning group, Carly For America, used Fiorina’s words as a voiceover for a video ad posted on YouTube on Monday showcasing dozens of women’s faces as the “faces of leadership”.
  • (10) The long-term effects of the plastic materials from which the Czechosovak IUDs Dana and Dana Super are made were studied.
  • (11) As the Labour leadership accused the coalition of launching a smear campaign over the party's links with the disgraced chairman, a transcript of an interview with Balls in 2010 showed that he highlighted his role in helped to create Britain's "first ever 'super-mutual'".
  • (12) Two weeks later the Colts would prevail 29-17 at Super Bowl XLI.
  • (13) "This is not the death of the super-injunction," he said.
  • (14) It’s a super-addictive yet deeply challenging game of resource management, based on a popular PC game – complete with its expansion edition.
  • (15) Some wires exhibited super-elasticity; load decreased little with decreasing deflection.
  • (16) The Huddersfield half-back, who is on a shortlist of three to be crowned Man of Steel as the outstanding player of the Super League season on Monday night, has never been a favourite of the England coach, Steve McNamara, who omitted Brough from the 30-man training squad announced in March .
  • (17) Using 60 pM 3H-PAC (a concentration determined to bind predominantly to the super-high affinity receptor state) pre-treatment patient values were higher then paired controls (p = 0.06).
  • (18) Chief executive Louis Gallois said Beijing's refusal to allow Hong Kong Airlines to complete a $4bn order for the A380 super-jumbos amounted to "retaliation measures" over the policy, which came into force at the beginning of the year.
  • (19) Iran Saudi Arabia China Which Chinese Super League club signed former Spurs midfielder Paulinho in 2015?
  • (20) Macroscopic and microscopic examination of plaster models obtained from impressions with alginate mass Kromopan Super and silicone mass Dentaflex Pasta confirmed that leaving of saliva and blood on the surface of impressions causes uneven surface of plaster models.