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Developing and Processing

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
processing

noun

  • Preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure.
    • usage: "the processing of newly arrived immigrants"; "the processing of ore to obtain minerals"

verb

  • Subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition.
    • usage: "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals"; "treat an oil spill"
  • Deal with in a routine way.
    • usage: "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants"
  • Perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information.
    • usage: "The results of the elections were still being processed when he gave his acceptance speech"
  • Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against.
    • usage: "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination"
  • March in a procession.
    • usage: "They processed into the dining room"
  • Shape, form, or improve a material.
    • usage: "work stone into tools"; "process iron"; "work the metal"
  • Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.
    • usage: "He was processed by the sheriff"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University

Processing are the steps a lender takes with your loan application to gather your information for underwriting. Processing involves building your file of information for your loan. Processing includes getting the credit report, appraisal, verification of employment, assets, etc.

(DoD) In photography, the operations necessary to produce negatives, diapositives, or prints from exposed films, plates, or paper.
(DoD) A system of operations designed to convert raw data into useful information.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
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