DEVELOP - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Verb

make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation

Example: Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather; They developed a new technique

Categories: Create

Meaning 2

Part of speech: Verb

gain through experience

Example: 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

Categories: Change

Meaning 3

Part of speech: Verb

be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest;

Example: The plot developed slowly

Categories: Happen, Hap, Go on, Pass off, Occur, Pass, Fall out, Come about, Take place

Meaning 4

Part of speech: Verb

grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

Example: 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

Categories: Grow

Meaning 5

Part of speech: Verb

cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development

Example: The perfect climate here develops the grain; He developed a new kind of apple

Categories: Change, Alter, Modify

Meaning 6

Part of speech: Verb

generate gradually

Example: We must develop more potential customers; develop a market for the new mobile phone

Categories: Generate, Bring forth

Meaning 7

Part of speech: Verb

grow emotionally or mature

Example: 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

Categories: Change

Meaning 8

Part of speech: Verb

make visible by means of chemical solutions

Example: Please develop this roll of film for me

Categories: Change, Alter, Modify

Meaning 9

Part of speech: Verb

superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

Categories: Superimpose, Superpose, Lay over

Meaning 10

Part of speech: Verb

move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions

Example: Spassky developed quickly

Categories: Play

Meaning 11

Part of speech: Verb

move into a strategically more advantageous position

Example: develop the rook

Categories: Play

Meaning 12

Part of speech: Verb

elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

Example: develop the melody and change the key

Categories: Complicate, Refine, Rarify, Elaborate

Meaning 13

Part of speech: Verb

expand in the form of a series

Example: Develop the function in the following form

Categories: Expand