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Defenition of the word develop

    • Defenition of the word develop

      • To progress through a series of stages.
      • Make visible by means of chemical solutions.
      • To come to have or undergo a change of physical features or attributes.
      • To teach by training.
      • happen, as of an event; "Report the news as it develops"
      • make a country technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now highly developed"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
      • change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"
      • expand a function or expression in the form of a series, in mathematics
      • grow, progress, unfold, or evolve gradually through a process of evolution, natural growth, or differentiation; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"
      • be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly"; "It develops thay neither one knows the answer"
      • elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
      • move into a strategically more advantageous position, of a chess piece; "develop the rook"
      • move one's chess pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; "Spassky developed quickly"
      • superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
      • generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"
      • make something new and usually improved, such as a product;"Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"
      • make visible by means of chemical solutions; of photographic film; "Please develop this roll of film for me"
      • disclose or reveal (obsolete); "We must develop the enemy soldiers"
      • gradually acquire new traits or characteristics: "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"
      • grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"
      • 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"
      • work out; as of a theory or an idea; "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
      • elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
      • come to have, of physical features and attributes; "He grew a beard"; The patient developed abdominal pains"; I got funny spots all over my body"
      • come into existence or develop: "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"
      • prepare for a future task or career; "I am training young minds"; "develop leaders"
      • come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
      • change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
      • expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form"
      • 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 fetus"; "This
      • happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
      • be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly";
      • 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"
      • become technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
      • grow emotionally or mature; "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"
      • gain through experience; "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"
      • create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
      • move into a strategically more advantageous position; "develop the rook"
      • move one''s pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; "Spassky developed quickly"
      • generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"
      • work out; "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
      • 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"
      • make visible by means of chemical solutions; "Please develop this roll of film for me"
      • come into existence; take on form or shape; "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"
      • come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
      • change the use of and make available or usable
      • expand in the form of a series
      • grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
      • cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
      • happen
      • be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
      • become technologically advanced
      • grow emotionally or mature
      • gain through experience
      • create by training and teaching
      • elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
      • move into a strategically more advantageous position
      • move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
      • generate gradually
      • work out
      • make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
      • make visible by means of chemical solutions
      • come into existence; take on form or shape

    Synonyms for the word develop

      • acquire
      • advance
      • arise
      • break
      • build
      • build on
      • build up
      • civilize
      • come
      • come into being
      • cultivate
      • educate
      • elaborate
      • enlarge
      • evolve
      • expand
      • explain
      • explicate
      • exploit
      • expound
      • extend
      • fill in
      • flesh out
      • form
      • formulate
      • get
      • grow
      • happen
      • improve
      • increase
      • make available
      • make grow
      • mature
      • modernize
      • originate
      • pick up
      • polish
      • prepare
      • produce
      • progress
      • refurbish
      • remodel
      • renovate
      • result
      • ripen
      • rise
      • spring up
      • stem
      • take on
      • train
      • unfold
      • upgrade
      • use
      • utilize
      • widen
      • work out

    Similar words in the develop

      • break out
      • break through
      • come through
      • develop
      • developed
      • developer's
      • developing
      • development
      • development's
      • developmental
      • develops
      • erupt

    Hyponyms for the word develop

      • adolesce
      • advance
      • age
      • bloom
      • blossom
      • blossom forth
      • blossom out
      • bud
      • build
      • build up
      • check
      • come
      • come along
      • come forth
      • come on
      • condition
      • cut
      • dedifferentiate
      • differentiate
      • discipline
      • drill
      • elaborate
      • emerge
      • evolve
      • feather
      • fledge
      • flower
      • foliate
      • follow
      • get along
      • get on
      • get up
      • grow
      • head
      • house-train
      • housebreak
      • incubate
      • leaf
      • make
      • maturate
      • mature
      • outgrow
      • pod
      • progress
      • pupate
      • redevelop
      • reformulate
      • regrow
      • resurge
      • retrain
      • senesce
      • settle
      • shape up
      • solarise
      • solarize
      • spike
      • spike out
      • spring
      • sprout
      • stock
      • stool
      • swell
      • teethe
      • tiller
      • toilet-train
      • train
      • underdevelop
      • unfold
      • well up
      • work out
      • work up

    Hypernyms for the word develop

      • alter
      • ameliorate
      • amend
      • become
      • better
      • bring forth
      • change
      • come about
      • complicate
      • conjecture
      • create
      • create by mental act
      • create mentally
      • detect
      • discover
      • elaborate
      • expand
      • fall out
      • find
      • generate
      • go on
      • grow
      • hap
      • happen
      • hypothecate
      • hypothesise
      • hypothesize
      • improve
      • instruct
      • lay over
      • learn
      • meliorate
      • modify
      • notice
      • observe
      • occur
      • pass
      • pass off
      • play
      • rarify
      • refine
      • speculate
      • superimpose
      • superpose
      • suppose
      • take place
      • teach
      • theorise
      • theorize

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