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Developing and Rolling

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
rolling

noun

  • A deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells.
  • The act of robbing a helpless person.
    • usage: "he was charged with rolling drunks in the park"
  • Propelling something on wheels.

verb

  • Move by turning over or rotating.
    • usage: "The child rolled down the hill"; "turn over on your left side"
  • Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle.
    • usage: "The President's convoy rolled past the crowds"
  • Occur in soft rounded shapes.
    • usage: "The hills rolled past"
  • Flatten or spread with a roller.
    • usage: "roll out the paper"
  • Emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound.
    • usage: "The thunder rolled"; "rolling drums"
  • Arrange or or coil around.
    • usage: "roll your hair around your finger"; "Twine the thread around the spool"; "She wrapped her arms around the child"
  • Begin operating or running.
    • usage: "The cameras were rolling"; "The presses are already rolling"
  • Shape by rolling.
    • usage: "roll a cigarette"
  • Execute a roll, in tumbling.
    • usage: "The gymnasts rolled and jumped"
  • Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity.
  • Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion.
    • usage: "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
  • Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
    • usage: "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town"
  • Move, rock, or sway from side to side.
    • usage: "The ship rolled on the heavy seas"
  • Cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis.
    • usage: "She rolled the ball"; "They rolled their eyes at his words"
  • Pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/.
    • usage: "She rolls her r's"
  • Boil vigorously.
    • usage: "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled"
  • Take the shape of a roll or cylinder.
    • usage: "the carpet rolled out"; "Yarn rolls well"
  • Show certain properties when being rolled.
    • usage: "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly"

adjective

  • Uttered with a trill.
    • usage: "she used rolling r's as in Spanish"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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