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develop

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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
    • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • Create by training and teaching.
    • usage: "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • Expand in the form of a series.
    • usage: "Develop the function in the following form"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
settle

noun

  • A long wooden bench with a back.

verb

  • Settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground.
    • usage: "dust settled on the roofs"
  • Bring to an end; settle conclusively.
    • usage: "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
  • Settle conclusively; come to terms.
    • usage: "We finally settled the argument"
  • Take up residence and become established.
    • usage: "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
  • Come to terms.
    • usage: "After some discussion we finally made up"
  • (v.) ()
  • Become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style.
    • usage: "He finally settled down"
  • Become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet.
    • usage: "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy"
  • Establish or develop as a residence.
    • usage: "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans"
  • Come to rest.
  • Arrange or fix in the desired order.
    • usage: "She settled the teacart"
  • Accept despite lack of complete satisfaction.
    • usage: "We settled for a lower price"
  • End a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement.
    • usage: "The two parties finally settled"
  • Dispose of; make a financial settlement.
  • Become clear by the sinking of particles.
    • usage: "the liquid gradually settled"
  • Cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids. )
  • Sink down or precipitate.
    • usage: "the mud subsides when the waters become calm"
  • Fix firmly.
    • usage: "He ensconced himself in the chair"
  • Get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury.
    • usage: "I finally settled with my old enemy"
  • Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form.
    • usage: "let's finalize the proposal"
  • Form a community.
    • usage: "The Swedes settled in Minnesota"
  • Come as if by falling.
    • usage: "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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