Word Finder - development

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The process of developing; growth, directed change.

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The development of this story has been slow.

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The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.

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The organism has reached a crucial stage in its development.

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Something which has developed.

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Our news team brings you the latest developments.

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A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.

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The building of such a project.

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The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).

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Our development department has produced three new adhesives this year.

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The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

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White's development is good, but black's has been hampered by the pawn on e5.

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The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.

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The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.

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The expression of a function in the form of a series.

But three years later a new economic development began.

The rapid development of Helen's mind is beautiful to watch.

Learning a new language has proven to be very beneficial to cognitive development.

These substances were regarded as being in some sense alive, and taking some active part in the development of being.

But the Civil War interrupted development.

Efforts to hasten this development have created some serious financial and industrial crises, and have burdened the country with heavy debts and taxes.

Despite recent development the town maintains ample green space.

Direct radiators are a development of the early coil of pipe; they are made in various types and designs and are usually of cast iron.

The development of commerce is retarded by lack of communications; the country possesses no railways and few roads.

In 1890 appeared The Development of Theology since Kant, and its Progress in Great Britain since 1825, which was written for publication in England.

The continent accepted the new development of his System.

There is a veliger stage in development, but the velum is reduced.

These words are a key to Feuerbach's development.

The cafe is also a garden landscaping design business where folks can go to seek out assistance, planning and development of their properties.

Debt has continually increased with the development of the state.

Meantime the development of the coast region had been taken in hand.

Neither here nor elsewhere are cilia found at any period of development.

The pitcher is a development at the end of the tendril.

More remarkable still is the development of a small allantoic placenta.

The development of the equatorial and the Brazil currents in the South Atlantic has already been described.

On the other hand, it is significant how everything in the development of new instruments seems to suggest, and be suggested by, the new methods of expression.

Popular universities have lately attained considerable development.

One further feature of the development of the Pectinibranchia deserves special mention.

The new comedy of Greece was probably limited for the most part to scenes written in the metres of dialogue; it remained for Plautus, as Leo has shown, to enliven his plays with cantica modelled on the contemporary lyric verse of Greece or Magna Graecia, which was in its turn a development of the dramatic lyrics of Euripides.

From and after that time the British Admiralty and the navies of other countries began to give great attention to the development of electric wave telegraphy.

The development of telephony in the United States of America is much greater than anywhere else; on the 1st of January 1907, 5 per cent.

The character and development of the order are traced in the article Franciscans; here the story of Francis's own life and the portrayal of his personality will be attempted.

The jewellers art received large encouragement in a country which had so many independent courts; but nowhere has it attained a fuller development than at Rome.

Labor legislation is backward in Italy, on account of the late development of manufacturing industry and of working-class organization.

The Nematoda which are parasitic during their whole life may similarly be divided into two classes - those which undergo their development in a single host, and those which undergo their development in the bodies of two distinct hosts.

The Creed system is a development of the Morse-Wheatstone system, and provides a keyboard perforator which punches Morse letters or figures on a paper strip by depressing type writer keys.

A full account of the development of his system was given by him in an article published in the Fortnightly Review for June 1902; see also a paper by him in the Journ.

One of the greatest advances made in the development of the art of telephony was the introduction of the " common battery relay system."

After the withdrawal of the restriction against the companies erecting trunk wires it became evident that the development of the telephone services throughout the country would be facilitated by complete intercommunication and uniformity of systems, and that economies could be effected by concentration of management.

The only European country which can be compared with the United Kingdom in telephone development is Germany.

Gaine, general manager of the company, stated before the Select Committee that in the view of the directors the bargain was a hard one, because it gave no consideration in respect of the goodwill of the great business, with its gross income of over £ 2,000,000 per annum and its net revenue of over £750,000, which the company had built up. The company had had to pay for all the experiments and mistakes which are inherent in the launching and development of any new industry.

After another period of preaching in Italy and watching over the development of the order, Francis once again set out for the East (1219).

Above the rim of the pitcher is a broad flattened lid, which is also a laminar development.

With the development of agricultural knowledge, notable improvements have been effected in the manufacture of oil.

Handlooms and small spinTextiles ning establishments have, in the silk industry, given place to large establishments with steam looms. The production of raw silk at least tripled itself between 1875 and 1900, and the value of the silks woven in Italy, estimated in 1890 to be 2,200,000, is now, on account of the development of the export trade calculated to be almost 4,000,000.

The development of the large cities has induced these banks to turn their attention rather to building enterprise than to mortgages on rural property.

Two stages in the development of the otocyst can be recognized, the first that of an open pit FIG.

During the rapid development of physical geography many branches of the study of nature, which had been included in the cosmography of the early writers, the physiography of Linnaeus and even the Erdkunde of Ritter, had been as so much advanced by the labours of specialists that their connexion was apt to be forgotten.

Pharmaceutical industries as distinguished from those above mentioned, have kept pace with the general development of Italian activity.

Wages vary greatly in different parts of Italy, according to the cost of the necessaries of life, the degree of development of working-class needs and the state of working-class organization, which in some places has succeeded in increasing the rates of pay.

The low level of wages in many trades and the jealousies of the Chambers of Labor and other working-class organizations impede rapid development.

Left to themselves by absentee emperors and exiled popes, the Italians pursued their own course of development unchecked.

The subsequent events of Italian history will be rendered most intelligible if at this point we trace the development of these five constituents of Italian greatness separately.

He took public education out of the hands of the Jesuits, which, for the future development of manliness in his dominions, was a measure of incalculable value.

Gradually the increase of traffic consequent upon the industrial development of Italy decreased the annual losses of the state, but the position of the government in regard to the railways still remained so unsatisfactory as to render the resumption of the whole system by the state on the expiration of the first period of twenty years in 1905 inevitable.