Develop and Shift

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.

noun

• An event in which something is displaced without rotation.
  • synonyms: displacement
• A qualitative change.
  • synonyms: transformation, transmutation
• The time period during which you are at work.
  • synonyms: work shift, duty period
• The act of changing one thing or position for another.
  • usage: "his switch on abortion cost him the election"
  • synonyms: switch, switching
• The act of moving from one place to another.
  • usage: "his constant shifting disrupted the class"
  • synonyms: shifting
• Geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other. (
  • usage: "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust"
  • synonyms: fault, faulting, geological fault, fracture, break
• A crew of workers who work for a specific period of time.
• The key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters.
  • synonyms: shift key
• A woman's sleeveless undergarment.
  • synonyms: chemise, shimmy, slip, teddy
• A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist.
  • synonyms: chemise, sack

verb

• Make a shift in or exchange of.
  • usage: "First Joe led; then we switched"
  • synonyms: switch, change over
• Change place or direction.
  • usage: "Shift one's position"
  • synonyms: dislodge, reposition
• Move around.
  • usage: "transfer the packet from his trouser pockets to a pocket in his jacket"
  • synonyms: transfer
• Move very slightly.
  • usage: "He shifted in his seat"
  • synonyms: stir, budge, agitate
• Move from one setting or context to another.
  • usage: "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention"
• Change in quality.
  • usage: "His tone shifted"
• Move and exchange for another.
  • usage: "shift the date for our class reunion"
• Move sideways or in an unsteady way.
  • usage: "The ship careened out of control"
  • synonyms: careen, wobble, tilt
• Move abruptly.
  • usage: "The ship suddenly lurched to the left"
  • synonyms: lurch, pitch
• Use a shift key on a keyboard.
  • usage: "She could not shift so all her letters are written in lower case"
• Change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.
  • usage: "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted"
• Change gears.
  • usage: "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill"
• Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.
  • usage: "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
  • synonyms: switch, change

• (v.t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
• (v.t.) The act of shifting.
• (v.t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
• (v.t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
• (v.t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
• (v.t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
• (v.t.) In building, the extent or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
• (v.t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
• (v.t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
• (v.t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
• (v.t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
• (v.t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
• (v.t.) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.