different between develop vs gestate

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)

1. (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides

     We must develop our own resources to the utmost.

4. (transitive) To create.

5. (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.

6. (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.

7. (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.

8. (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.
9. (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

English

Etymology

Back-formation from gestation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??s?te?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

gestate (third-person singular simple present gestates, present participle gestating, simple past and past participle gestated)

1. (intransitive) To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
   • 2012, H. DeWayne Ashmead, Amino Acid Chelation in Human and Animal Nutrition, CRC Press (?ISBN)

     In the early 1960s, a study was conducted in which gestating rats were given diets containing the same mineral content of mineral salts or amino acid chelates.

2. (by extension, intransitive) To develop an idea.

Related terms

• gestation

Translations

Anagrams

• tagetes

Latin

Participle

gest?te

1. vocative masculine singular of gest?tus