noun
- Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible.
- usage: "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"
- synonyms: development
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"
- synonyms: develop
- 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";
- synonyms: develop
- 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"
- synonyms: develop
- 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"
- synonyms: develop
- 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"
- synonyms: develop
- Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
- synonyms: develop
- Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
- usage: "Spassky developed quickly"
- synonyms: develop
- Move into a strategically more advantageous position.
- usage: "develop the rook"
- synonyms: develop
- 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"
- synonyms: develop
- Happen.
- usage: "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
- synonyms: break, recrudesce, develop
- Expand in the form of a series.
- usage: "Develop the function in the following form"
- synonyms: develop
adjective
- Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply.
- synonyms: underdeveloped