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English verb: develop | |||
| 1. | develop (creation) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | ||
| Samples | Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather. They developed a new technique. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | create | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | build | ||
| Verb group | develop, evolve, germinate | ||
| 2. | develop (creation) work out | ||
| Samples | We have developed a new theory of evolution. | ||
| Examples | Did he develop his major works over a short period of time? | ||
| Synonyms | evolve, germinate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | create by mental act, create mentally | ||
| Verb group | develop | ||
| 3. | develop (change) gain through experience | ||
| Samples | I acquired a strong aversion to television. Children must develop a sense of right and wrong. Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position. Develop a passion for painting. | ||
| Synonyms | acquire, evolve | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
| Verb group | acquire, develop, develop, develop, develop, explicate, formulate, get, grow, produce | ||
| 4. | develop (body) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | ||
| Samples | He grew a beard. The patient developed abdominal pains. I got funny spots all over my body. Well-developed breasts. | ||
| Synonyms | acquire, get, grow, produce | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | cut, feather, fledge, get up, leaf, pod, pupate, regrow, spring, sprout, stock, stool, teethe, tiller, work up | ||
| Verb group | acquire, develop, evolve | ||
| 5. | develop (stative) come into existence; take on form or shape | ||
| Samples | A new religious movement originated in that country. A love that sprang up from friendship. The idea for the book grew out of a short story. An interesting phenomenon uprose. | ||
| Synonyms | arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | become | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | come, come forth, emerge, follow, head, resurge, swell, well up | ||
| Verb group | develop | ||
| 6. | develop (change) change the use of and make available or usable | ||
| Samples | Develop land. The country developed its natural resources. The remote areas of the country were gradually built up. | ||
| Synonyms | build up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | redevelop, settle | ||
| Verb group | develop, develop, develop, develop, educate, make grow, modernise, modernize, prepare, train | ||
| 7. | develop (communication) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | ||
| Samples | Could you develop the ideas in your thesis. | ||
| Synonyms | explicate, formulate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | mature, redevelop, reformulate | ||
| Verb group | acquire, develop, develop, evolve | ||
| 8. | develop (cognition) create by training and teaching | ||
| Samples | The old master is training world-class violinists. We develop the leaders for the future. | ||
| Synonyms | educate, prepare, train | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | instruct, learn, teach | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | drill, house-train, housebreak, retrain, toilet-train | ||
| Verb group | build up, develop, groom, prepare, prepare, train, train | ||
| 9. | develop (change) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | ||
| Samples | The plot developed slowly. | ||
| Pattern of use | It ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place | ||
| Verb group | arise, break, develop, develop, develop, grow, originate, recrudesce, rise, spring up, uprise | ||
| 10. | develop (change) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | ||
| Samples | A flower developed on the branch. The country developed into a mighty superpower. The embryo develops into a fetus. This situation has developed over a long time. | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Something is ----ing PP. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | grow | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | adolesce, advance, age, age, bloom, blossom, blossom, blossom forth, blossom out, bud, build, build up, come along, come on, dedifferentiate, differentiate, evolve, flower, get along, get on, get on, grow, grow, incubate, maturate, maturate, mature, mature, progress, progress, senesce, shape up, spike, spike out, unfold, work up | ||
| Verb group | develop | ||
| 11. | develop (change) become technologically advanced | ||
| Samples | Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace. Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly. | ||
| Synonyms | modernise, modernize | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
| Verb group | build up, develop | ||
| 12. | develop (change) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | ||
| Samples | The perfect climate here develops the grain. He developed a new kind of apple. | ||
| Synonyms | make grow | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | check, condition, discipline, elaborate, foliate, grow, train, work out, work out, work up | ||
| Cause | develop, grow | ||
| Verb group | build up, develop | ||
| 13. | develop (creation) generate gradually | ||
| Samples | We must develop more potential customers. Develop a market for the new mobile phone. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bring forth, generate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | make | ||
| Verb group | acquire, build up, develop, develop, evolve | ||
| 14. | develop (change) grow emotionally or mature | ||
| Samples | The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten. When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior. | ||
| Examples | Sam and Sue develop | ||
| Synonyms | grow | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | make, outgrow | ||
| 15. | develop (perception) make visible by means of chemical solutions | ||
| Samples | Please develop this roll of film for me. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alter, change, modify | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | redevelop, solarise, solarize, underdevelop | ||
| Domain category | photography, photography, picture taking | ||
| 16. | develop (contact) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | lay over, superimpose, superpose | ||
| 17. | develop (competition) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | ||
| Samples | Spassky developed quickly. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | play | ||
| Verb group | develop | ||
| Domain category | chess, chess game | ||
| 18. | develop (competition) move into a strategically more advantageous position | ||
| Samples | Develop the rook. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | play | ||
| Verb group | develop | ||
| Domain category | chess, chess game | ||
| 19. | develop (change) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | ||
| Samples | Develop the melody and change the key. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine | ||
| Verb group | acquire, develop, develop, evolve, explicate, formulate | ||
| 20. | develop (change) happen | ||
| Samples | Report the news as it develops. These political movements recrudesce from time to time. | ||
| Synonyms | break, recrudesce | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place | ||
| Verb group | develop | ||
| 21. | develop (change) expand in the form of a series | ||
| Samples | Develop the function in the following form. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | expand | ||
| Domain category | math, mathematics, maths | ||
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