Main entry: grow, get, acquire, produce, develop
Definition: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
Usage: He grew a beard; The patient developed abdominal pains; I got funny spots all over my body; Well-developed breasts
Definition: change the use of and make available or usable
Usage: develop land; The country developed its natural resources; The remote areas of the country were gradually built up
Main entry: develop
Definition: expand in the form of a series
Usage: Develop the function in the following form
Main entry: develop
Definition: grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
Usage: A flower developed on the branch; The country developed into a mighty superpower; The embryo develops into a fetus; This situation has developed over a long time
Main entry: make grow, develop
Definition: cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
Usage: The perfect climate here develops the grain; He developed a new kind of apple
Main entry: break, develop, recrudesce
Definition: happen
Usage: Report the news as it develops; These political movements recrudesce from time to time
Main entry: develop
Definition: be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
Usage: The plot developed slowly;
Main entry: develop
Definition: elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
Usage: develop the melody and change the key
Main entry: develop, modernise, modernize
Definition: become technologically advanced
Usage: Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace; Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly
Definition: grow emotionally or mature
Usage: 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
Main entry: develop, acquire, evolve
Definition: gain through experience
Usage: 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
Main entry: prepare, train, develop, educate
Definition: create by training and teaching
Usage: The old master is training world-class violinists; we develop the leaders for the future
Main entry: develop, formulate, explicate
Definition: elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
Usage: Could you develop the ideas in your thesis
Main entry: develop
Definition: move into a strategically more advantageous position
Usage: develop the rook
Main entry: develop
Definition: move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
Usage: Spassky developed quickly
Main entry: develop
Definition: superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
Main entry: develop
Definition: generate gradually
Usage: We must develop more potential customers; develop a market for the new mobile phone
Main entry: germinate, evolve, develop
Definition: work out
Usage: We have developed a new theory of evolution
Main entry: develop
Definition: make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
Usage: Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather; They developed a new technique
Main entry: develop
Definition: make visible by means of chemical solutions
Usage: Please develop this roll of film for me
Main entry: grow, arise, originate, spring up, develop, uprise, rise
Definition: come into existence; take on form or shape
Usage: 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