different between development vs choreograph

English

Alternative forms

• developement (obsolete)

Etymology

First use 1756, analyzable as develop +? -ment, from French développement, from Old French desvelopemens (“unrolling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??v?l?pm?nt/

Noun

development (countable and uncountable, plural developments)

1. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.

2. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.

3. (countable) Something which has developed.

4. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings.
5. (real estate, uncountable) The building of such a project.
6. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).

7. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

8. (music) The process by in which previous material is transformed and restated.
10. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form, in which the original theme is revisited in altered and varying form.
11. (mathematics) The expression of a function in the form of a series.

Derived terms

• arrested development
• career development
• community development
• development aid

Translations

Further reading

• "development" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 103.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??i?????f/, /?k??i???æf/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??j???æf/

Verb

choreograph (third-person singular simple present choreographs, present participle choreographing, simple past and past participle choreographed)

1. To design and record the choreography for a dramatic work such as a ballet
2. To direct the development of a project; to orchestrate
   • 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)[1]

     England’s response came in the form of the brilliantly choreographed move that concluded with Wayne Rooney’s second goal and the kind of outstanding football that was beyond their opponents.

Related terms

• choreographer
• choreography

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