Develop and Direct

verb

• Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation.
  • usage: "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique"
• Work out.
  • usage: "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
  • synonyms: evolve, germinate
• Gain through experience.
  • usage: "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting"
  • synonyms: acquire, evolve
• Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes. )
  • usage: "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
  • synonyms: grow, produce, get, acquire
• Come into existence; take on form or shape.
  • usage: "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
  • synonyms: originate, arise, rise, uprise, spring up, grow
• Change the use of and make available or usable.
  • usage: "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
  • synonyms: build up
• Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
  • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • synonyms: explicate, formulate
• Create by training and teaching.
  • usage: "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
  • synonyms: train, prepare, educate
• Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.
  • usage: "The plot developed slowly";
• Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment.
  • usage: "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"
• Become technologically advanced.
  • usage: "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
  • synonyms: modernize, modernise
• Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development.
  • usage: "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"
  • synonyms: make grow
• Generate gradually.
  • usage: "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"
• Grow emotionally or mature.
  • usage: "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
  • synonyms: grow
• Make visible by means of chemical solutions.
  • usage: "Please develop this roll of film for me"
• Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
• Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
  • usage: "Spassky developed quickly"
• Move into a strategically more advantageous position.
  • usage: "develop the rook"
• Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.
  • usage: "develop the melody and change the key"
• Happen.
  • usage: "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
  • synonyms: break, recrudesce
• Expand in the form of a series.
  • usage: "Develop the function in the following form"

• (v.i.) To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.
• (v.i.) To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.
• (v.t.) To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.
• (v.t.) To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.
• (v.t.) To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
• (v.t.) To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
• (v.t.) To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

verb

• Command with authority.
  • usage: "He directed the children to do their homework"
• Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.
  • usage: "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
  • synonyms: target, aim, place, point
• Guide the actors in (plays and films. )
• Be in charge of.
• Take somebody somewhere.
  • usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
  • synonyms: lead, take, conduct, guide
• Cause to go somewhere.
  • usage: "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
  • synonyms: send
• Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.
  • usage: "Please don't aim at your little brother"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
  • synonyms: aim, take, train, take aim
• Lead, as in the performance of a composition.
  • usage: "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
  • synonyms: conduct, lead
• Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.
  • usage: "I directed them towards the town hall"
• Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.
  • synonyms: calculate, aim
• Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
  • synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
• Put an address on (an envelope.
  • synonyms: address
• Plan and direct (a complex undertaking. )
  • usage: "he masterminded the robbery"
  • synonyms: mastermind, engineer, organize, organise, orchestrate

adjective

• Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.
  • usage: "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
• Having no intervening persons, agents, conditions.
  • usage: "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote"
  • synonyms: unmediated
• Straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.
  • usage: "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
• In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
  • usage: "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
  • synonyms: lineal
• Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or-for planets-around the sun in the same direction as the Earth.
• Similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity)
  • usage: "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases. "
• Of a current. ( flowing in one direction only)
  • usage: "direct current"
• Being an immediate result or consequence.
  • usage: "a direct result of the accident"
• In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.
  • usage: "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"
  • synonyms: verbatim
• Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact.
  • usage: "the direct opposite"

adverb

• Without deviation.
  • usage: "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"
  • synonyms: directly, straight

• (v.t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
• (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
• (v.t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
• (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
• (v.t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
• (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
• (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
• (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
• (v.t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
• (v.i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
• (v.t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
• (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
• (a.) Pertaining to or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.