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develop

/dɪˈvɛl.əp/ US, UK
/ˈɖeʋᵊ.ləp/ India
/ɖɪˈʋɛː.ləp/ India

Rhymes with -əp, -ɛləp

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French développer, from Middle French desveloper, from Old French desveloper, from des- + voloper, veloper, vloper (“to wrap, wrap up”) (compare Italian sviluppare, Old Italian alternative form goluppare (“to wrap”)) from Vulgar Latin *vloppō, *wloppō (“to wrap”) ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wrappaną, *wlappaną (“to wrap, roll up, turn, wind”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to turn, bend”) http://www.wordnik.com/words/envelop.

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.

verb develops · developing · developed · developt

archaic, impersonal, transitive To discover, find out; to uncover. ‘The mystery which I cannot develop, may by that time be removed […].’
intransitive To change with a specific direction, progress. Let's see how things develop and then make our decision.
ambitransitive To progress through a sequence of stages. Isabel developed from a tropical depression to a tropical storm to a hurricane. An embryo develops into a fetus and then into an infant.
transitive To advance; to further; to promote the growth of. We must develop our own resources to the utmost.
transitive To create. I need to develop a plan for the next three weeks.
transitive To bring out images latent in photographic film. Please develop this roll of film.
transitive To acquire something usually over a period of time. I have been in England enough to develop a British accent.
transitive To place one's pieces actively. I need to develop my white-square bishop.
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.
To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

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