different between tourism vs development

English

Etymology

From tour +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????z(?)m/, /?t?(?)??z(?)m/

Noun

tourism (usually uncountable, plural tourisms)

1. The act of travelling or sightseeing, particularly away from one's home.
2. The industry in which such travels and sightseeing are organized.
3. Collectively, the tourists visiting a place or landmark. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. (figuratively) The act of visiting another region or jurisdiction for a particular purpose.

   libel tourism; suicide tourism; sex tourism

Derived terms

Related terms

• tourist

Descendants

• ? French: tourisme (see there for further descendants)

Translations

Anagrams

• morutis, rims out

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.