develop
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(verb) change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources" |
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Related Words: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, redevelop, settle |
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(verb) expand a function or expression in the form of a series, in mathematics |
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Related Words: expand |
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(verb) 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" |
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Related Words: advance, age, bloom, blossom, blossom forth, blossom out, bud, build, build up, come along, come on, differentiate, evolve, flower, get along, get on, grow, grow, incubate, maturate, mature, progress, shape up, spike, spike out, unfold, work up |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: make grow |
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Related Words: alter, change, check, condition, discipline, elaborate, evolve, foliate, train, work out |
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(verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly"; "It develops thay neither one knows the answer" |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme |
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Related Words: complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine |
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(verb) grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten" |
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Synonyms: grow |
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Related Words: change, make, outgrow |
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(verb) gradually acquire new traits or characteristics: "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong" |
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Synonyms: evolve |
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Related Words: change |
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(verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position, of a chess piece; "develop the rook" |
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Related Words: play |
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(verb) move one's chess pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; "Spassky developed quickly" |
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Related Words: play |
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(verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry |
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Related Words: lay over, superimpose |
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(verb) generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers" |
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Related Words: bring forth, generate, make |
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(verb) 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" |
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Related Words: build, create |
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(verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions; of photographic film; "Please develop this roll of film for me" |
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Related Words: alter, change, redevelop |
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(verb) disclose or reveal (obsolete); "We must develop the enemy soldiers" |
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Related Words: detect, discover, find, notice, observe |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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Related Words: change, cut, feather, fledge, get up, leaf, pod, pupate, spring, sprout, stool, teeth, teethe, tiller, work up |
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(verb) happen, as of an event; "Report the news as it develops" |
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Synonyms: break |
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Related Words: come about, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place |
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(verb) prepare for a future task or career; "I am training young minds"; "develop leaders" |
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Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
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Related Words: drill, housebreak, instruct, learn, teach, toilet-train |
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(verb) work out; as of a theory or an idea; "We have developed a new theory of evolution" |
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Synonyms: evolve |
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Related Words: create by mental act, create mentally |
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(verb) make a country technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now highly developed"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly" |
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Synonyms: civilize, modernize |
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Related Words: alter, change |
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(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis" |
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Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
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Related Words: conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesize, redevelop, reformulate, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize |
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(verb) 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" |
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Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up |
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Related Words: become, come, come forth, emerge, follow, swell, well up |
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