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develop
English
Alternative forms
- develope (archaic)
Etymology
Borrowed from French développer, from Middle French desveloper, from Old French desveloper, from des- + voloper, veloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian -viluppare, Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vlopp?, *wlopp? (“to wrap”) ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrappan?, *wlappan? (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) [1]. Akin to Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”) (Modern English lap (“to wrap, involve, fold”)), Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind, twist”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch, distort”), Old English wearp (“warp”). The word acquired its modern meaning from the 17th-century belief that an egg contains the animal in miniature and matures by growing larger and shedding its envelopes.
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??v?l.?p/
- (Indian English) IPA(key): /?d?v.l?p/, /d??v?.l?p/
- Rhymes: -?l?p
Verb
develop (third-person singular simple present develops, present participle developing, simple past and past participle developed or (archaic, rare) developt)
- (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
- (transitive, intransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
- 1868-1869, Robert Owen, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates
- All insects […] acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed.
- 1868-1869, Robert Owen, Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates
- (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- We must develop our own resources to the utmost.
- 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides
- (transitive) To create.
- (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
- (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
Usage notes
- Objects: plan, software, program, product, story, idea.
Derived terms
- co-develop, codevelop
Related terms
- developing
- development
Translations
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acquire
English
Etymology
From Middle English acqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acquir?; ad- + quaer? (“to seek for”). See quest.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??kwa???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??kwa??/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
- Hyphenation: ac?quire
Verb
acquire (third-person singular simple present acquires, present participle acquiring, simple past and past participle acquired)
- (transitive) To get.
- (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)
- No virtue is acquired in an instant, but by degrees, step by step.
- Descent is the title whereby a man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)
- (medicine) To contract.
- (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
Synonyms
- (get, gain): attain, come by, earn, gain, obtain, procure, secure, win
Antonyms
- (get, gain): abandon, lose
Derived terms
- acquired taste
Related terms
- acquisition
- acquirement
- acquisitive
- acquisitory
See also
- obtain
- reach
Translations
Latin
Verb
acqu?re
- second-person singular present active imperative of acqu?r?
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