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English noun: development | |||
| 1. | development (act) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | ||
| Samples | He congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency. They funded research and development. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | improvement | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | advancement, broadening, elaboration, product development, progress, working out | ||
| 2. | development (process) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | ||
| Samples | The development of his ideas took many years. The evolution of Greek civilization. The slow development of her skill as a writer. | ||
| Synonyms | evolution | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | physical process, process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | assibilation, deepening, flowering, growth, unfolding | ||
| Antonyms | degeneration, devolution | ||
| 3. | development (process) (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 | ||
| Samples | He proposed an indicator of osseous development in children. | ||
| Synonyms | growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | biological process, organic process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | amelogenesis, angiogenesis, anthesis, apposition, auxesis, blossoming, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, cenogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, culture, cytogenesis, cytogeny, dentition, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, foliation, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, habit, inflorescence, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, kainogenesis, kenogenesis, leafing, life cycle, masculinisation, masculinization, morphogenesis, myelinisation, myelinization, neurogenesis, odontiasis, palingenesis, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, recapitulation, rooting, sprouting, suppression, teething, teratogenesis, vegetation, virilisation, virilization | ||
| Part holonym | gastrulation | ||
| Domain category | biological science, biology | ||
| Domain category members | isometry | ||
| Antonyms | nondevelopment | ||
| 4. | development (event) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | ||
| Samples | Recent developments in Iraq. What a revolting development!. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alteration, change, modification | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | complication, phenomenon, ramification, turn, turn of events, twist | ||
| 5. | development (act) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | ||
| Samples | The development of Alaskan resources. The exploitation of copper deposits. | ||
| Synonyms | exploitation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | employment, exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | capitalisation, capitalization, commercialisation, commercialization, electrification, land development, overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation, overutilization, unitisation, unitization, water development, water program, water project | ||
| 6. | development (location) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | ||
| Samples | Such land is practical for small park developments. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | district, dominion, territorial dominion, territory | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | housing development, housing estate | ||
| 7. | development (state) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | ||
| Samples | After he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter. In chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | improvement, melioration | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | underdevelopment | ||
| Domain category | chess, chess game | ||
| 8. | development (process) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | ||
| Samples | The development and printing of his pictures took only two hours. | ||
| Synonyms | developing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | processing | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | underdevelopment | ||
| 9. | development (communication) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | section, subdivision | ||
| Domain category | music | ||
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