optimise
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make optimal; get the most out of; use best
optimize your resources
Types & categories
- perfect hypernym
Related & opposite
- optimization derivation
- optimum derivation
Sense 2 verb
modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost
optimize a computer program
Types & categories
- modify hypernym
Related & opposite
- optimization derivation
Sense 3 verb
act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world
Types & categories
- behave hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | optimization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | optimum |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | perfect |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | optimization |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | modify |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | behave |