Overview of verb develop

The verb develop has 21 senses

• develop -- (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"; "They developed a new technique")


• evolve, germinate, develop -- (work out; "We have developed a new theory of evolution")


• develop, acquire, evolve -- (gain through experience; "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")


• grow, develop, produce, get, acquire -- (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts")


• originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow -- (come into existence; take on form or shape; "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")


• build up, develop -- (change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up")


• explicate, formulate, develop -- (elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis")


• train, develop, prepare, educate -- (create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future")


• develop -- (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly";)


• develop -- (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "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")


• modernize, modernise, develop -- (become technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly")


• develop, make grow -- (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")


• develop -- (generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone")


• develop, grow -- (grow emotionally or mature; "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")


• develop -- (make visible by means of chemical solutions; "Please develop this roll of film for me")


• develop -- (superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry)


• develop -- (move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; "Spassky developed quickly")


• develop -- (move into a strategically more advantageous position; "develop the rook")


• develop -- (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")


• break, recrudesce, develop -- (happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time")


• develop -- (expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form")

Overview of adj developed

The adj developed has 3 senses

• developed -- (being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful; "the developed qualities of the Hellenic outlook"; "they have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each")


• developed, highly-developed -- ((used of societies) having high industrial development; "developed countries")


• developed -- ((of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads; "condominiums were built on the developed site")