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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
trace

noun

  • A just detectable amount.
    • usage: "he speaks French with a trace of an accent"
  • An indication that something has been present.
    • usage: "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"
  • A suggestion of some quality.
    • usage: "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
  • A drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image.
  • Either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree.
  • A visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle.

verb

  • Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something.
    • usage: "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba"; "trace the student's progress"
  • Make a mark or lines on a surface.
    • usage: "draw a line"; "trace the outline of a figure in the sand"
  • To go back over again.
    • usage: "we retraced the route we took last summer"; "trace your path"
  • Pursue or chase relentlessly.
    • usage: "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"
  • Discover traces of.
    • usage: "She traced the circumstances of her birth"
  • Make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along.
    • usage: "The children traced along the edge of the dark forest"; "The women traced the pasture"
  • Copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of.
    • usage: "trace a design"; "trace a pattern"
  • Read with difficulty.
    • usage: "Can you decipher this letter"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Trace is a feminine given name
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