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Developing and Setting

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
setting

noun

  • The context and environment in which something is set.
    • usage: "the perfect setting for a ghost story"
  • The state of the environment in which a situation exists.
    • usage: "you can't do that in a university setting"
  • Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted.
  • The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event.
    • usage: "the historical context"
  • The physical position of something.
    • usage: "he changed the setting on the thermostat"
  • A table service for one person.
    • usage: "a place setting of sterling flatware"
  • A mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place.
    • usage: "the diamond was in a plain gold mount"

verb

  • Put into a certain place or abstract location.
    • usage: "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
  • Fix conclusively or authoritatively.
    • usage: "set the rules"
  • Decide upon or fix definitely.
    • usage: "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
  • Establish as the highest level or best performance.
    • usage: "set a record"
  • Put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state.
    • usage: "set the house afire"
  • Fix in a border.
    • usage: "The goldsmith set the diamond"
  • Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.
    • usage: "Get the children ready for school"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
  • Set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly.
    • usage: "set clocks or instruments"
  • Locate.
    • usage: "The film is set in Africa"
  • Disappear beyond the horizon.
    • usage: "the sun sets early these days"
  • Adapt for performance in a different way.
    • usage: "set this poem to music"
  • Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground.
    • usage: "Let's plant flowers in the garden"
  • Apply or start.
    • usage: "set fire to a building"
  • Become gelatinous.
    • usage: "the liquid jelled after we added the enzyme"
  • Set in type.
    • usage: "My book will be typeset nicely"; "set these words in italics"
  • Put into a position that will restore a normal state.
    • usage: "set a broken bone"
  • Insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink.
  • Give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor.
  • Urge to attack someone.
    • usage: "The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders"; "the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits"
  • Estimate.
    • usage: "We put the time of arrival at 8 P. M."
  • Equip with sails or masts.
    • usage: "rig a ship"
  • Get ready for a particular purpose or event.
    • usage: "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery"
  • Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.
    • usage: "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
  • Bear fruit.
    • usage: "the apple trees fructify"
  • Arrange attractively.
    • usage: "dress my hair for the wedding"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
  • (n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
  • (n.) Something set in or inserted.
  • (n.) The act of one who or that which, sets; as, the setting of type or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
  • (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Set.
  • (n.) That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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