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Adjective: developing di'veluping- Relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply
- underdeveloped Noun: developing di'veluping- Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- development Verb: develop di'velup- Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
"Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique" - Work out
"We have developed a new theory of evolution" - evolve, germinate - Gain through experience
"Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting" - acquire, evolve - Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
"The patient developed abdominal pains"; "Well-developed breasts" - grow, produce, get, acquire - Come into existence; take on form or shape
- originate, arise, rise, uprise, spring up, grow - Change the use of and make available or usable
"develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources" - build up - Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
"Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" - explicate, formulate - Create by training and teaching
"we develop the leaders for the future" - train, prepare, educate - Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
"The plot developed slowly" - Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
"A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a foetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time" - Become technologically advanced
"Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace" - modernize, modernise [Brit] - Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
"The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple" - make grow - Generate gradually
"We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone" - Grow emotionally or mature
"The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten" - grow - Make visible by means of chemical solutions
"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
"Spassky developed quickly" - Move into a strategically more advantageous position
"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
"develop the melody and change the key" - Happen
"Report the news as it develops" - break, recrudesce - Expand in the form of a series
"Develop the function in the following form"
See also: developer, development, nonindustrial Type of: alter, ameliorate, amend, become, better, bring forth, change, come about, complicate, conjecture, create, create by mental act, create mentally, elaborate, expand, fall out, generate, go on, grow, hap, happen, hypothecate, hypothesise [Brit], hypothesize, improve, instruct, lay over, learn, meliorate, modify, occur, pass, pass off, play, processing, rarify, refine, speculate, superimpose, superpose, suppose, take place, teach, theorise [Brit], theorize Encyclopedia: Develop Developing |