development
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(noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development" |
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Related Words: advancement, broadening, elaboration, improvement, progress, working out |
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(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!" |
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Related Words: alteration, change, complication, modification, phenomenon, ramification, turn, turn of events, twist |
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(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments" |
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Related Words: district, housing development, territory |
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(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a more advanced or mature stage; "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer" |
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Synonyms: evolution |
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Related Words: deepening, flowering, growth, process, unfolding |
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(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours" |
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Synonyms: developing |
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Related Words: processing, underdevelopment |
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(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing; "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen" |
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Related Words: improvement, underdevelopment |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful: "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits" |
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Synonyms: exploitation |
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Related Words: capitalisation, capitalization, commercialisation, commercialization, electrification, employment, exercise, land development, overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation, overutilization, usage, use, utilisation, utilization, water development, water program, water project |
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(noun) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" |
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Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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Related Words: amelogenesis, anthesis, auxesis, biological process, blossoming, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, cytogenesis, efflorescence, flowering, foliation, fructification, germination, inflorescence, juvenescence, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, leafing, life cycle, masculinization, oogenesis, organic process, palingenesis, proliferation, recapitulation, rooting, spermatogenesis, sprouting, virilization |
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Antonyms: nondevelopment |
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