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Develop   /dɪvˈɛləp/   Listen
Develop

verb
(past & past part. developed; pres. part. developing)  (Written also develope)
1.
Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation.  "They developed a new technique"
2.
Work out.  Synonyms: evolve, germinate.
3.
Gain through experience.  Synonyms: acquire, evolve.  "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong" , "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position" , "Develop a passion for painting"
4.
Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes).  Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce.  "The patient developed abdominal pains" , "I got funny spots all over my body" , "Well-developed breasts"
5.
Come into existence; take on form or shape.  Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise.  "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
6.
Change the use of and make available or usable.  Synonym: build up.  "The country developed its natural resources" , "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
7.
Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.  Synonyms: explicate, formulate.
8.
Create by training and teaching.  Synonyms: educate, prepare, train.  "We develop the leaders for the future"
9.
Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.
10.
Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment.  "The country developed into a mighty superpower" , "The embryo develops into a fetus" , "This situation has developed over a long time"
11.
Become technologically advanced.  Synonyms: modernise, modernize.  "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
12.
Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development.  Synonym: make grow.  "He developed a new kind of apple"
13.
Generate gradually.  "Develop a market for the new mobile phone"
14.
Grow emotionally or mature.  Synonym: grow.  "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
15.
Make visible by means of chemical solutions.
16.
Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
17.
Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
18.
Move into a strategically more advantageous position.
19.
Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.
20.
Happen.  Synonyms: break, recrudesce.  "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
21.
Expand in the form of a series.



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"Develop" Quotes from Famous Books



... point I want to develop is that the modern doctor's business is an extremely simple one, which could be acquired in about two weeks. This is the way ...
— Literary Lapses • Stephen Leacock
... A poem is generally read in solitude, and a picture can be seen by only a few at a time; but a concert or opera may be enjoyed by 5,000 or more at a time—the more the merrier. I have already stated that in public schools music helps to develop a sympathetic feeling of mutual enjoyment. And why is it that music, ever since the days of the ancient Hebrews and Greeks, has been always provided at political meetings and processions, at picnics, ...
— Chopin and Other Musical Essays • Henry T. Finck
... housekeeper said that she was sick and tired of life. My friend said it did not matter. The Child clung to the frying- pan with passion. The book my friend was reading said that was how the human mind was formed: the Child's instinct prompted it to seize upon objects tending to develop its brain faculty. What the parent had got to do was to stand aside and ...
— The Angel and the Author - and Others • Jerome K. Jerome
... other assented and took up the paper again. Hamilton waited. He had spent but little time in the mountains but he had learned the value of allowing topics to develop slowly, even though his host was better informed than most of the people in the region. Although not an actual relative, Hamilton always called him "Uncle" because he had fought with distinguished honor in the regiment that Hamilton's father commanded during the Civil War, ...
— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... retain all they ever knew of science, but they can develop, even as brains in bodies can develop. Their knowledge does not become outmoded, if they are kept informed of the latest currents of scientific thought. From old knowledge and new they build their structures of logic once my command sets them on. Wills of their ...
— The Affair of the Brains • Anthony Gilmore


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