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develop
English
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development“The perfect climate here develops the grain”
- 🔊 be gradually disclosed or unfolded“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”
- 🔊 grow emotionally or mature“The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten”
- 🔊 gain through experience“I acquired a strong aversion to television”
- 🔊 move into a strategically more advantageous position“develop the rook”
- 🔊 move one's 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, 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”
- 🔊 make visible by means of chemical solutions“Please develop this roll of film for me”
- 🔊 come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)“He grew a beard”
- 🔊 change the use of and make available or usable“develop land”
- 🔊 create by training and teaching“The old master is training world-class violinists”
- 🔊 happen“Report the news as it develops”
- 🔊 become technologically advanced“Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace”
- 🔊 elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses“Could you develop the ideas in your thesis”
- 🔊 work out“We have developed a new theory of evolution”
- 🔊 come into existence“A new religious movement originated in that country”
Spanish
- 🔊 desarrollar to develop
- 🔊 desenvolver to develop
- 🔊 abrotoñar to develop, arise, appear
- 🔊 gestar to develop, generate (a feeling)