Develop and Surface

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.

• A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aeroplane or flying machine.
• (n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
• (n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.
• (n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, especially the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
• (n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.
• (v.t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.
• (v.t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.

noun

• The outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary.
  • usage: "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"
• The extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object.
  • usage: "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface"
• The outermost level of the land or sea.
  • usage: "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water"
  • synonyms: Earth's surface
• A superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something.
  • usage: "it was not what it appeared to be on the surface"
• Information that has become public.
  • usage: "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"
  • synonyms: open
• A device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight.
  • synonyms: airfoil, aerofoil, control surface

verb

• Come to the surface.
  • synonyms: come up, rise up, rise
• Put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface.
  • usage: "coat the cake with chocolate"
  • synonyms: coat
• Appear or become visible; make a showing.
  • usage: "She turned up at the funeral"; "I hope the list key is going to surface again"
  • synonyms: come on, come out, turn up, show up

adjective

• On the surface.
  • usage: "surface materials of the moon"