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Developed   /dɪvˈɛləpt/   Listen
Developed

adjective
1.
Being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful.  "They have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each"  Antonym: undeveloped.
2.
(used of societies) having high industrial development.  Synonym: highly-developed.
3.
(of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads.


Develop

verb
(past & past part. developed; pres. part. developing)  (Written also develope)
1.
Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation.  "They developed a new technique"
2.
Work out.  Synonyms: evolve, germinate.
3.
Gain through experience.  Synonyms: acquire, evolve.  "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong" , "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position" , "Develop a passion for painting"
4.
Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes).  Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce.  "The patient developed abdominal pains" , "I got funny spots all over my body" , "Well-developed breasts"
5.
Come into existence; take on form or shape.  Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise.  "A love that sprang up from friendship" , "The idea for the book grew out of a short story" , "An interesting phenomenon uprose"
6.
Change the use of and make available or usable.  Synonym: build up.  "The country developed its natural resources" , "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"
7.
Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.  Synonyms: explicate, formulate.
8.
Create by training and teaching.  Synonyms: educate, prepare, train.  "We develop the leaders for the future"
9.
Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest.
10.
Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment.  "The country developed into a mighty superpower" , "The embryo develops into a fetus" , "This situation has developed over a long time"
11.
Become technologically advanced.  Synonyms: modernise, modernize.  "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
12.
Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development.  Synonym: make grow.  "He developed a new kind of apple"
13.
Generate gradually.  "Develop a market for the new mobile phone"
14.
Grow emotionally or mature.  Synonym: grow.  "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
15.
Make visible by means of chemical solutions.
16.
Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.
17.
Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions.
18.
Move into a strategically more advantageous position.
19.
Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.
20.
Happen.  Synonyms: break, recrudesce.  "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
21.
Expand in the form of a series.



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"Developed" Quotes from Famous Books



... out-of-the-ordinary type in the northland. He believed, for instance, in a certain specific psychology of the animal mind, and had proven to his own satisfaction that animals treated and conversed with in a matter-of-fact human way frequently developed an understanding which he, in ...
— Nomads of the North - A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars • James Oliver Curwood
... Christ's pre-existence. "He was before me" (John i. 30). The phrase resembles Christ's own words, when He said: "Before Abraham was, I am." In John's case it developed soon after into another and kindred expression: "He that cometh from above, is above all" (John iii. 31). With such words the Baptist taught his disciples. He insisted that Jesus of Nazareth had an existence anterior to Nazareth, and previous to his birth of the village ...
— John the Baptist • F. B. Meyer
... establishment of the first Home for the Friendless, of which there are now seven in charge of the society. In 1854, Industrial schools were added. Cooking, housekeeping, kindergarten, and fresh-air work developed rapidly. There are now twelve industrial schools, where six thousand children are taught. The report of the first semi-annual meeting, held in Utica, N. Y., is in quaint contrast to the reports of ...
— Woman and the Republic • Helen Kendrick Johnson
... one, hoped everything would be, for he had not been able to hold Robin to serious study since the holidays. And poor Harkness had developed a stitch in his back hanging the pictures Miss Lewis sent and laying clean white paper in ...
— Red-Robin • Jane Abbott
... the fifth century, B.C., was developed in an amazingly short time from a condition of almost archaic rudeness to that of the greatest perfection which the world has ...
— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 08, August 1895 - Fragments of Greek Detail • Various


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