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Developing and Field

developing

noun

  • Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible.
    • usage: "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours"

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"

adjective

  • Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply.
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Develop.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
field

noun

  • A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
    • usage: "he planted a field of wheat"
  • A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought.
    • usage: "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
  • Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected.
    • usage: "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"
  • A branch of knowledge.
    • usage: "in what discipline is his doctorate"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
  • The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.
  • A particular kind of commercial enterprise.
    • usage: "they are outstanding in their field"
  • A particular environment or walk of life.
    • usage: "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"
  • A piece of land prepared for playing a game.
    • usage: "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
  • Extensive tract of level open land.
    • usage: "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
  • Mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1. (
    • usage: "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
  • A region in which active military operations are in progress.
    • usage: "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
  • All of the horses in a particular horse race.
  • All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event.
  • A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found.
    • usage: "the diamond fields of South Africa"
  • Computer science. ( a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information)
  • The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument.
  • A place where planes take off and land.

verb

  • Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
  • Play as a fielder.
  • Answer adequately or successfully.
    • usage: "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
  • Select (a team or individual player) for a game.
    • usage: "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Field is a masculine given name
  • Name Meaning: A Field
  • Name Origin: , English,

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