different between venture vs development

English

Etymology

Clipping of adventure.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?n.t???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?n.t???/
• Hyphenation: ven?ture

Noun

venture (plural ventures)

1. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
2. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen.

   Synonyms: accident, chance, contingency
3. The thing risked; especially, something sent to sea in trade.

   Synonym: stake

Hyponyms

• business venture
• joint venture

Translations

Verb

venture (third-person singular simple present ventures, present participle venturing, simple past and past participle ventured)

1. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.

   • who freights a ship to venture on the seas

2. (transitive) To risk or offer.
3. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on
4. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.

5. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
6. (transitive) To say something.

Derived terms

• venture capital

Related terms

• venturesome
• venturous

Translations

Further reading

• venture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• venture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Adjective

venture

1. feminine plural of venturo

Noun

venture f

1. plural of ventura

Latin

Participle

vent?re

1. vocative masculine singular of vent?rus

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.