develop
pronunciation
How to pronounce develop in British English:
UK [dɪˈveləp]
How to pronounce develop in American English:
US [dɪˈveləp]
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- Verb:
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- work out
- gain through experience
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- change the use of and make available or usable
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- create by training and teaching
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- become technologically advanced
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- generate gradually
- grow emotionally or mature
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- happen
- expand in the form of a series
Word Origin
- develop
- develop: [17] The history of develop and its close relative envelop is hazy. English acquired it from développer, the modern French descendant of Old French desveloper. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix des- ‘un-’ and voloper ‘wrap’. But where did voloper come from? Some have proposed a hypothetical Celtic base *vol- ‘roll’, while others have pointed to similarities, formal and semantic, with Italian viluppo ‘bundle’ and viluppare ‘wrap’, which come from an assumed late Latin *faluppa ‘husk’. Beyond that, however, the trail has gone cold.=> envelop
- develop (v.)
- 1650s, "unroll, unfold," from French développer, replacing English disvelop (1590s, from Middle French desveloper), both from Old French desveloper "unwrap, unfurl, unveil; reveal the meaning of, explain," from des- "undo" + veloper "wrap up," which is of uncertain origin, possibly Celtic or Germanic. Modern figurative use is 18c. The photographic sense is from 1845; the real estate sense is from 1890.
Example
- 1. Google will develop killer app for the soul
- 2. As entrepreneurship continues to change and evolve , what skills will students need to develop ?
- 3. He works with every employee to set goals and develop new skills .
- 4. And they need to develop a consumer base , " he adds .
- 5. Intel , for what it is worth , will continue to develop meego on its own .