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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they develop ... he / she / it develops
Past simple: developed
Past participle: developed
-ing form: developing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
Example:
Well-developed breasts
Synonyms:
acquire; develop; get; grow; produce
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
acquire; develop; evolve (gain through experience)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
cut (have grow through the gums)
pupate (develop into a pupa)
teethe (grow teeth; cut the baby teeth)
pod (produce pods, of plants)
leaf (produce leaves, of plants)
stool; tiller (grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers)
sprout; stock (put forth and grow sprouts or shoots)
spring (develop suddenly)
regrow (grow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption)
feather; fledge (grow feathers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
development ((biology) 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Change the use of and make available or usable
Example:
The remote areas of the country were gradually built up
Synonyms:
build up; develop
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)
Verb group:
develop; make grow (cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development)
develop; modernise; modernize (become technologically advanced)
develop; educate; prepare; train (create by training and teaching)
develop (generate gradually)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
redevelop (change the plans for the use of (land))
settle (establish or develop as a residence)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
developer (someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use))
development (the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful)
development (a district that has been developed to serve some purpose)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Expand in the form of a series
Example:
Develop the function in the following form
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
expand (make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity)
Domain category:
math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
Example:
This situation has developed over a long time
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
grow (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain)
Verb group:
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
bud (develop buds)
spike; spike out (bring forth a spike or spikes)
bloom; blossom; flower (produce or yield flowers)
blossom; blossom forth; blossom out; unfold (develop or come to a promising stage)
incubate (grow under conditions that promote development)
build; build up; progress; work up (form or accumulate steadily)
adolesce (become adolescent; pass through adolescence)
evolve (undergo development or evolution)
grow; maturate; mature (develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation)
advance; come along; come on; get along; get on; progress; shape up (develop in a positive way)
age (begin to seem older; get older)
age; get on; maturate; mature; senesce (grow old or older)
grow (increase in size by natural process)
dedifferentiate (lose specialization in form or function)
differentiate (become different during development)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
development ((biology) 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)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
Example:
He developed a new kind of apple
Synonyms:
develop; make grow
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Cause:
grow (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain)
develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)
Verb group:
build up; develop (change the use of and make available or usable)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
check; condition; discipline; train (develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control)
foliate (grow leaves)
elaborate; work out (work out in detail)
work out; work up (come up with)
grow (cause to grow or develop)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Happen
Example:
These political movements recrudesce from time to time
Synonyms:
break; develop; recrudesce
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Verb group:
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
development (a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
Example:
The plot developed slowly
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Verb group:
develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise (come into existence; take on form or shape)
Sentence frame:
It ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 8
Meaning:
Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
Example:
develop the melody and change the key
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
complicate; elaborate; rarify; refine (make more complex, intricate, or richer)
Verb group:
acquire; develop; evolve (gain through experience)
develop; explicate; formulate (elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 9
Meaning:
Become technologically advanced
Example:
Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly
Synonyms:
develop; modernise; modernize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
build up; develop (change the use of and make available or usable)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
development (act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining)
Sense 10
Meaning:
Grow emotionally or mature
Example:
When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior
Synonyms:
develop; grow
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
outgrow (grow too large or too mature for)
make (develop into)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue develop
Derivation:
development (a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage))
Sense 11
Meaning:
Gain through experience
Example:
develop a passion for painting
Synonyms:
acquire; develop; evolve
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
acquire; develop; get; grow; produce (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes))
develop (elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme)
develop; explicate; formulate (elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses)
develop (generate gradually)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 12
Meaning:
Create by training and teaching
Example:
we develop the leaders for the future
Synonyms:
develop; educate; prepare; train
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
instruct; learn; teach (impart skills or knowledge to)
Verb group:
build up; develop (change the use of and make available or usable)
prepare; train (undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession)
groom; prepare; train (educate for a future role or function)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
toilet-train (train (a small child) to use the toilet)
house-train; housebreak (train (a pet) to live cleanly in a house)
drill (train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons)
retrain (teach new skills)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 13
Meaning:
Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
Example:
Could you develop the ideas in your thesis
Synonyms:
develop; explicate; formulate
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
conjecture; hypothecate; hypothesise; hypothesize; speculate; suppose; theorise; theorize (to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds)
Verb group:
develop (elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme)
acquire; develop; evolve (gain through experience)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
mature (develop and work out fully in one's mind)
redevelop; reformulate (formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 14
Meaning:
Move into a strategically more advantageous position
Example:
develop the rook
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
play (participate in games or sport)
Verb group:
develop (move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions)
Domain category:
chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
development (a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess))
Sense 15
Meaning:
Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
Example:
Spassky developed quickly
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
play (participate in games or sport)
Verb group:
develop (move into a strategically more advantageous position)
Domain category:
chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
development (a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess))
Sense 16
Meaning:
Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
lay over; superimpose; superpose (place on top of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 17
Meaning:
Generate gradually
Example:
develop a market for the new mobile phone
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
bring forth; generate (bring into existence)
Verb group:
build up; develop (change the use of and make available or usable)
acquire; develop; evolve (gain through experience)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
make (favor the development of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 18
Meaning:
Work out
Example:
We have developed a new theory of evolution
Synonyms:
develop; evolve; germinate
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
create by mental act; create mentally (create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands)
Verb group:
develop (make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Did he develop his major works over a short period of time?
Sense 19
Meaning:
Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
Example:
They developed a new technique
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
create (bring into existence)
Verb group:
develop; evolve; germinate (work out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
build (give form to, according to a plan)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
development (act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining)
Sense 20
Meaning:
Make visible by means of chemical solutions
Example:
Please develop this roll of film for me
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Domain category:
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)
photography (the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
solarise; solarize (reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it)
underdevelop (process (a film or photographic plate) less than the required time or in an ineffective solution or at an insufficiently high temperature)
redevelop (develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
developer (photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film)
developing; development (processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible)
Sense 21
Meaning:
Come into existence; take on form or shape
Example:
An interesting phenomenon uprose
Synonyms:
arise; develop; grow; originate; rise; spring up; uprise
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "develop" is one way to...):
become (come into existence)
Verb group:
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "develop"):
resurge (rise again)
come forth; emerge (happen or occur as a result of something)
come; follow (to be the product or result)
swell; well up (come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things))
head (take its rise)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Context examples:
He has certain qualities very largely developed; selfishness, secrecy, and purpose.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Subsequently patients develop confusion, disruption of the sleep cycle, and mental deterioration.
(African Trypanosomiasis, NCI Thesaurus)
A horse so treated would develop a slight lameness, which would be put down to a strain in exercise or a touch of rheumatism, but never to foul play.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Life-threatening respiratory failure that develops rapidly.
(Acute Respiratory Failure, NCI Thesaurus)
He had developed into an alien.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Take a second look at projects you developed earlier in the year that had to be put aside because of a lack of funds or time.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
An acoustic neuroma is a benign tumor that develops on the nerve that connects the ear to the brain.
(Acoustic Neuroma, NIH: National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders)
In cancer research, it is the likelihood that a person who is free of a specific type of cancer at a given age will develop that cancer over a certain period of time.
(Absolute risk, NCI Dictionary)
This strain develops spontaneous prostate cancer with age and is used as a rat model of human prostate cancer in biomedical research.
(ACI/Seg, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
Researchers at George Washington University, led by Stuart Licht, think they have developed a novel solution, and they're calling it the "molten air battery."
(New, high-energy rechargeable batteries, NSF)
