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Developing and Starting

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
starting

noun

  • A turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning. )
    • usage: "he got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital"; "his starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen"

verb

  • Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
    • usage: "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"
  • Set in motion, cause to start.
    • usage: "The U. S. Started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"
  • Leave.
    • usage: "The family took off for Florida"
  • Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense.
    • usage: "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250, 000"
  • Bring into being.
    • usage: "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"
  • Get off the ground.
    • usage: "Who started this company"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"
  • Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm.
    • usage: "She startled when I walked into the room"
  • Get going or set in motion.
    • usage: "We simply could not start the engine"; "start up the computer"
  • Begin or set in motion.
    • usage: "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go"
  • Begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job.
    • usage: "Take up a position"; "start a new job"
  • Play in the starting lineup.
  • Have a beginning characterized in some specified way.
    • usage: "The novel begins with a murder"; "My property begins with the three maple trees"; "Her day begins with a workout"; "The semester begins with a convocation ceremony"
  • Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object.
    • usage: "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
  • Bulge outward.
    • usage: "His eyes popped"

adjective

  • Especially of eyes. ( bulging or protruding as with fear)
    • usage: "with eyes starting from their sockets"
  • Appropriate to the beginning or start of an event.
    • usage: "the starting point"; "hands in the starting position"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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