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Development   /dɪvˈɛləpmənt/   Listen
Development

noun
(Written also developement)
1.
Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining.  "They funded research and development"
2.
A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage).  Synonym: evolution.  "The evolution of Greek civilization" , "The slow development of her skill as a writer"  Antonym: devolution.
3.
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.  Synonyms: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny.  Antonym: nondevelopment.
4.
A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation.  "What a revolting development!"
5.
The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful.  Synonym: exploitation.  "The exploitation of copper deposits"
6.
A district that has been developed to serve some purpose.
7.
A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess).  "In chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen"
8.
Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible.  Synonym: developing.
9.
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated.



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"Development" Quotes from Famous Books



... plunge into wild seas and venture themselves among even wilder men. With the Greeks the motive was generally political, and a safe home was sought, where social and civil life might have free scope for quiet development. ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson
... you would think so!" cried the little philanthropist enthusiastically. "Of course, bartering as you do with aboriginal races, their development and evolution is a matter of the deepest importance to you. If a man came down to barter with you who had a rudimentary tail and couldn't bend his thumb—well, it wouldn't be pleasant, you know. Our idea is to elevate them in the scale of humanity ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... seemed to think less; it seemed, indeed, rather to reconcile him to that of his mother, by the grief it spared her; and it confirmed Ethel's notion, that Mr. Ward, a busy and dull man, paid no great attention to his children between the plaything period and that of full development. The mother was the home; and Averil, though Leonard showed both love for and pride in her, had hitherto been a poor substitute, while as to Henry, there was something in each mention of him which gave Ethel an undefined dread of the future of the young ...
— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge
... called 'Books that Have Influenced Me.' A number of authors, politicians, preachers, doctors, and rich men profess to give an account of the youthful reading which has been most powerful in the development of their manly minds and characters. To judge from what they have written here you would suppose that these men were as mature and discriminating at sixteen as they are at sixty. They tell of great books, serious books, famous books. But they say little or nothing of the small, amusing ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke
... a calculation that had not gone astray from that end to which she had designed it. It was as if some monstrous and ironical power had been beneath and about her all her life long, using those thoughts and actions that she had intended in one way to the development of another. ...
— Come Rack! Come Rope! • Robert Hugh Benson


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