develop: znaczenie i definicje

To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment: an instructor who develops the capabilities of each student.

To expand or enlarge: developed a national corporation into a worldwide business.

To aid in the growth of; strengthen: exercises that develop muscles.

To improve the quality of; refine: develops his recipes to perfection; an extra year of study to develop virtuosic technique.

To cause to become more complex or intricate; add detail and fullness to; elaborate: began with a good premise but developed it without imagination.

Music To elaborate (a theme) with rhythmic and harmonic variations.

To bring into being gradually: develop a new cottage industry.

To set forth or clarify by degrees: developed her thesis in a series of articles.

To come to have gradually; acquire: develop a taste for opera; develop a friendship.

To become affected with; contract; developed a rash; developed agoraphobia.

To cause gradually to acquire a specific role, function, or form, as:

To influence the behavior of toward a specific end: an investigator who develops witnesses through flattery and intimidation.

To cause (a tract of land) to serve a particular purpose: developed the site as a community of condominiums.

To make available and effective to fulfill a particular end or need: develop the state's water resources to serve a growing population.

To convert or transform: developed the play into a movie.

Games To move (a chess piece) to or toward a more strategic position.

To process (a photosensitive material), especially with chemicals, in order to render a recorded image visible.

To render (an image) visible by this means.

To grow by degrees into a more advanced or mature state: With hard work, she developed into a great writer. See Synonyms at mature.

To increase or expand.

To improve; advance: Their skill developed until it rivaled their teacher's.

To come gradually into existence or activity: Tension developed between students and faculty.

To come gradually to light; be disclosed: reports the news as it develops.

Biology To progress from earlier to later stages of a life cycle: Caterpillars develop into butterflies.

Biology To progress from earlier to later or from simpler to more complex stages of evolution.