Word Finder - developed

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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.

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(said of a country) Not primitive; not third-world.

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Mature.

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Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on.

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Having useful or necessary infrastructure.

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Advanced, fully formed.

He hadn't developed a liking for her.

Look how much information he's developed so far.

In 1921, a tuberculosis vaccine was developed in France.

Jackson had developed quite a discerning palate over the years.

Her unwillingness to be beaten has developed her courage.

She was going to have her lifelong dream as well as the dream she had recently developed - a life with Brandon.

They developed immunity blood the last time they had you.

He developed this line of argument when moving the second reading of the Home Rule bill in April, and at Dundee in the autumn outlined a general policy under which England would be cut up into self-governing areas.

At the rare moments when the old fire did kindle in her handsome, fully developed body she was even more attractive than in former days.

Maybe that was why he was the first to notice when she developed a fever.

We're had poor Howie in thirty-two sessions since you're been here so Quinn's developed cross references.

Any of our infrequent visitors or friends asking about the operation quickly developed a bleary look when we tried to explain what we did for a living.

The swell of well developed breasts peeked from a tank top that might have looked suggestive on someone else.

Upper margin of the end of the proboscis developed into a distinct finger-like process, much longer than the lower margins, and the whole trunk uniformly tapering and smooth.

Brunn, whose comparative method in art-criticism he much developed.

Agriculture is highly developed; cereals, principally wheat and oats, and beetroot are the chief crops; potatoes, flax, hemp, rape and hops are also grown.

The nervous system of the medusa consists of sub-epithelial ganglion-cells, which form, in the first place, a diffuse plexus of nervous tissue, as in the polyp, but developed chiefly on the subumbral surface; and which are concentrated, in the second place, to form a definite central nervous system, never found in the polyp. In Hydromedusae the central nervous system forms two concentric nerverings at the margin of the umbrella, near the base of the velum.

The female attaches her eggs to the inner wall of her own home, and the young when large enough to shift for themselves have the bell-making instinct fully developed.

Whether you are rich or poor, live in the developed world or the developing world, life today is better and easier than it was a century ago by virtually any measure.

Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.

Although the direct object of Pasteur was to prove a negative, yet it was on these experiments that sterilization as known to us was developed.

In the western region all the Mesozoic systems, including the Trias, are well developed.

Beginning with 1620, New England was colonized by English Presbyterians of the two types which developed from the discussions of the Westminster Assembly (1643-1648) into Presbyterianism and Congregationalism.

In all cases a more or less full series of teeth is developed, these being differentiated into incisors, canines, premolars and molars, when all are present; but only a single pair of teeth in each jaw has deciduous predecessors.

The tree breaks into thin stems close to the ground, and these branch again and again, the leaves being developed umbrellafashion on the outer branches.

In 1902 Marconi invented two forms of magnetic detector, one of which he developed into an electric wave detector of extraordinary delicacy and utility.

The cotton industry has also rapidly developed.

In relation to their parasitic habit one or two suckers are always developed, the one at the anterior and the other at the posterior end of the body.

Interradial tentacles may be also developed, so that the total number present may be increased to eight or to an indefinitely large number.

It was my teacher who unfolded and developed them.

This sense is not, however, so finely developed as in some other blind people.

They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens.

That particular dish has developed quite a cult following.

Though his poetical tastes were early developed, his father apprenticed him to a jeweller.

First two premolars with compressed and sharp-pointed crowns, and slightly developed anterior and posterior accessory basal cusps.

Hind foot long and narrow, mainly composed of the strongly developed fourth toe, terminating in a conical pointed nail, with a strong pad behind it; the first toe represented by a rudimentary metatarsal; the remaining toes completely developed, with claws, but exceedingly slender; the united second and third reaching a little way beyond the metatarso-phalangeal articulation of the fourth; the fifth somewhat shorter.

The portion of the lachrymal duct communicating with the cavity of the nose has, on the other hand, been abnormally developed, apparently for the purpose of cleansing that chamber from particles of sand which may obtain an entrance while the animal is burrowing.

Rhodes was again famous for its pottery in medieval times; this was a lustre ware at first imitated from Persian, though it afterwards developed into an independent style of fine colouring and rich variety of design.

Cambrian rocks occur in each of these districts, and they are best developed in the South Australian high= lands, where they include a long belt of contemporary glacial deposits.

Silurian rocks are well developed in western Tasmania, and the Silurian sea must have washed the south-western corner of the continent, if the rocks of the Stirling Range be rightly identified as of this age.

The Permian deposits are best developed in New South Wales and Tasmania, where their characters show the continuation of the Carboniferous conditions.

These marine deposits are not found anywhere along the eastern coast of Australia; but they occur, and reach about the same height above sea-level, in New Guinea, and are widely developed in New Zealand.

These immigrants then developed, with some exceptions, into the present Australian flora and fauna.

The first important discovery was made in 1882, when gold was found in the Kimberley district; but it was not until a few years later that this rich and extensive area was developed.

Extensive deposits, which are being developed successfully, occur in Tasmania, it being estimated that there are, within easy shipping facilities, 17,000,000 tons of ore.

Black coal forms one of the principal resources of New South Wales; and in the other states the deposits of this valuable mineral are being rapidly developed.

But Mr Howitt finds in this being " no trace of a divine nature, though under favourable conditions the beliefs might have developed into an actual religion."

During this period Achin developed a determined enmity to the Portuguese, and more than one attempt was made to drive the strangers from Malacca.

Only less important and only less early to be established in Vermont was the quarrying of granite, which began in 1812, but which has been developed chiefly since 1880, largely by means of the building of "granite railroads" which connect each quarry with a main railway line - a means of transportation as important as the logging railways of the Western states and of Canada.

The "Turco," Hylactes megapodius, is larger, with greatly developed feet and claws, but is very similar in colour and habits.