Word Finder - develop

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To change with a specific direction, progress.

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Let's see how things develop and then make our decision.

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To progress through a sequence of stages.

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Isabel developed from a tropical depression to a tropical storm to a hurricane.   An embryo develops into a fetus and then into an infant.

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To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.

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To create.

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I need to develop a plan for the next three weeks.

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To bring out images latent in photographic film.

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Please develop this roll of film.

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To acquire something usually over a period of time.

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I have been in England enough to develop a British accent.

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To place one's pieces actively.

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I need to develop my white-square bishop.

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To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.

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To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

The second crop of cabbage was starting to develop, and the okra looked good.

They were already beginning to develop different personalities.

He would pick now to develop a sense of humor.

The calf could be injured, and she might develop a fear of those caring for her.

You'll have to develop some skill in reading people if you want to make this a business.

He needed to develop empathy skills.

Will the Toggenburg kid develop markings like its mother when it matures?

I know that she has remarkable powers, and I believe that I shall be able to develop and mould them.

Thus if the maximum horse-power which a locomotive can develop is woo, the tractive resistance R, at 60 m.

Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life.

The second way people choose a nutritional theory is to develop it from their overall social and political understanding of the world.

The ovule develops into the seed; and the gynaeceum and even more remote parts of the flower, develop into the fruit.

The characteristic of the 18th and 19th centuries is the endeavour, connected with the name of Moses Mendelssohn, to bring Judaism more into relation with external learning, and in using the Hebrew language to purify tend- and develop it in accordance with the biblical standard.

When, in the 5th century A.D., owing to theological differences the Syriac-using Christians became divided into Nestorians or East Syrians and Jacobites (Monophysites) or West Syrians, certain differences of pronunciation, chiefly in the vowels, began to develop themselves.

I must develop a means of determining if this is the case.

The student will develop an ability to critically review the literature.

Another cell could develop at any time and this could start again all over.

The second crop of cabbage was starting to develop, and the Okra looked good.

You will need to help your child develop personal safety skills to prevent further abuse.

Some people with bulimia have had, or go on to develop, anorexia.

It vanished as soon as he returned to the customary conditions of his life, but he knew that this feeling which he did not know how to develop existed within him.

The sclerotia (some indicated by arrowheads) develop near the colony margin.

Most people who develop mesothelioma do not have asbestosis.

If it was so valuable, why didn't old man Dawkins develop it?

Patriotic efforts are made to encourage the use of Hebrew both for writing and speaking, but the continued existence of it as a literary language depends on the direction in which the future history of the Jews will develop.

It is possible that this represents the syphon or supplementary intestine of Capitellidae, which has been shown to develop as a groving of the intestine ultimately cut off from it.

Mirabeau did not develop his great qualities of mind and character until his youthful excesses were over, and it was not till 1781 that these began to appear.

He was chosen Fourth of July orator in Hanover, the college town, in 1800, and in his speech appears the substance of the political principles for the develop - ment of which he is chiefly famous.

In the old Prussian provinces alone there were fifty-three different customs frontiers, and German manufactures could not develop until the growth of the Zollverein brought with it commercial consolidation, internal freedom and greater homogeneity of economic conditions.

As in other Gastropoda Anisopleura, this shell-sac may abnormally develop a plug of chitinous matter, but normally it flattens out and disappears, whilst the cap-like rudiment of the permanent shell is shed out from the dome-like surface of the visceral hump, in the centre of which the shell-sac existed for a brief period.

But the decline in the energies of the central government at Paris and the appointment of Scherer as commander-in-chief of the army of Italy frustrated the plans of a vigorous offensive which Bonaparte continued to develop and advocate.

Small red-brown spots appear on the bolls, gradually enlarge, and develop into irregular black and grey patches.

The culture developed in the West during the 13th century was not only permitted to develop by the protection of the Crusades, it grew upon materials which the Crusades enabled it to import from the East.

The genital products develop in intermediate spaces similarly limited by these dissepiments and alternating with the digestive caeca.

As the animals become adult, diverticula arise on the tubes of these organs, which develop either spermatozoa or ova.

By this time the embryo has all the organs of the adult perfected save only the reproductive; these develop only when the first host is swallowed by the second or final host, in which case the parasite attaches itself to the wall of the alimentary canal and becomes adult.

Though this prince continued to develop the city, giving it a municipality in 1866 1 and new harbour works in 1871-1878, he developed Cairo still more; and the centre of gravity definitely shifted to the inland capital.

In North America the earliest representative of the group is Systemodon of the Lower Eocene, in which all the upper premolars are quite simple; while the molars are of a type which would readily develop into that of the modern tapirs, both outer columns being conical and of equal size.

The soul's destiny upon earth is to develop those perfections the germs of which are eternally implanted in it, and it ultimately must return to the infinite source from which it emanated.

Governors were appointed by the lords proprietors, and there are copious records in the state papers of the attempts made to develop the resources of the islands.

After 1881 the Mining Company of Bosnia began to develop the coal and iron fields; and from 1886 its operations were continued by the government.

A considerable hindrance to the development of the empire's resources has been the lack of an adequate system of communications; but although it is still deficient in good roads, much has been done of late years to develop railways, extend canals and improve river communications.

The council has not limited its duties to the collection of the revenues placed under its administration, but has taken pains to develop commercially the revenues capable of such development.

Pains, moreover, have been taken by the public debt council to develop the sale of salt within the empire.

A long tour in Italy in 1828 was the beginning of his intimacy with Bunsen and did much to develop his knowledge of art and love of antiquity.

The eggs are fertilized, practically in the ovary, and develop in situ.

Florence now acquired a great seaport and was at last able to develop a direct maritime trade.

In the latter respect, and in the fact that they frequently develop by a metamorphosis, they approach the Mollusca, but they differ from that group notably in the occurrence of metameric segmentation affecting many of the systems of organs.

The female lays two kinds of eggs - " summer-eggs," which develop without fertilization, and " winter-eggs" or resting eggs, which require to be fertilized.

At whatever date the Americans began to people America, they must have had time to import or develop the numerous families of languages actually found there, in none of which has community of origin been satisfactorily proved with any other language-group at home or abroad.