Develop

(verb.) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; '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'.

(verb.) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; 'The perfect climate here develops the grain'; 'He developed a new kind of apple'.

(verb.) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; 'The plot developed slowly';.

(verb.) gain through experience; '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'.

(verb.) move into a strategically more advantageous position; 'develop the rook'.

(verb.) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; 'Spassky developed quickly'.

(verb.) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry.

(verb.) generate gradually; 'We must develop more potential customers'; 'develop a market for the new mobile phone'.

(verb.) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation; 'Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather'; 'They developed a new technique'.

(verb.) make visible by means of chemical solutions; 'Please develop this roll of film for me'.

(verb.) expand in the form of a series; 'Develop the function in the following form'.

(verb.) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme; 'develop the melody and change the key'.

(verb.) grow emotionally or mature; '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'.

达伦编辑

• This signifies the capacity to acquire habits, or develop definite dispositions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Only very slowly did the human mind develop methods of indicating action and relationship in a formal manner. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They begin to develop a warmer interest in their personal leaders, who secure them pay and plunder. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig. 30). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• On the other hand, it is possible that the disease may develop itself more rapidly: it is one of those cases in which death is sometimes sudden. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Politics would be like education--an effort to develop, train and nurture men's impulses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When the science of static electricity was thus far developed, with a machine for generating it and a collector to receive it, many experiments followed. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• And without those powers, what mechanical tool or machine has since been developed? 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was a difference amongst them as amongst the educated; and when I got to know them, and they me, this difference rapidly developed itself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Mr. Lake developed an instrument suited to this purpose and one which gave a simultaneous view of the entire horizon. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Daylight developing soon followed, and the dark room, as far as the kodaker was concerned, took its proper place as a relic of the dark ages. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The repeating rifle now seemed an interesting possibility and large sums were spent in developing a weapon of this type. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And so we find them developing fibre and support, and the beginning of _woody fibre_ in them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And furthermore, that in practically every case the actual patented invention followed from one to a dozen or more gradually developing forms of the same idea. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The mere fact that Edison spent years of his life in developing that process counted for nothing. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Our net conclusion is that life is development, and that developing, growing, is life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Since that episode, which will probably be appreciated by most automobilists, Edison has taken up the electric automobile, and is now using it as well as developing it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Method is a statement of the way the subject matter of an experience develops most effectively and fruitfully. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• All education which develops power to share effectively in social life is moral. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The individual develops, but his proper development consists in repeating in orderly stages the past evolution of animal life and human history. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The alternative develops. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It develops vulgarity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He develops a plan of procedure, a method of dealing with the situation. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The engine runs from 300 to 400 revolutions per minute and develops from four to five horse power. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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