developmentn.
/dᵻˈvɛləpm(ə)nt/, U.S. /dəˈvɛləpmənt/, /diˈvɛləpmənt/ I. Senses relating to growth or becoming more advanced or elaborate.
1. The action or process of bringing something to a fuller or more advanced condition; spec. the explanation or elaboration of an idea, theory, etc. Also: an instance of this.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 9a.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being in preparation > making or becoming mature
ripingeOE
concoction1555
hatching1555
ripening1561
maturation1605
incubation1614
gestation1615
coction1683
development1724
developing1744
ageing1853
maturing1897
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > furtherance > [noun] > by bringing out what is potential
evolutiona1676
development1724
evolvement1854
1724 G. Cheyne Ess. Health vi. 162 This Principle..on its first Developement and Expansion..may be called a Spiritual Passion.
1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen Abstr. Disc. IV. 281 These elementary Steps in the Developement of the natural, and the Acquisition of the moral Powers.
1821 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 21 Nov. The proper development of resources should ever be the aim of the statesman.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §2. 225 A yet larger development of their powers was offered to the Commons by Edward himself.
1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. v. 50 The real development of Scotch industry dates from the Union of 1707.
1927 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. xxi. 303 The monsoon enabled a precocious development of trade to take place on the coasts of the Indian Ocean.
1985 AMHCA Jrnl. Jan. 2 Computerized programs and systems are available to facilitate career development.
1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way (1989) iii. xvi. 312 Symmetry..was to play an undiminished role in the further development of quantum field theory.
2001 A. Sayle Dog Catcher 155 The characters need a lot more development, they're a bit one dimensional at the moment.
2.
a. The growth or formation of an organ or other structure that is a natural part of the anatomy of an organism.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun]
evolution1671
development1740
1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen iv. 188 In Time, the Compound [sc. the Soul and Body] comes into the Light, and is born into the World; and then, from the Velocity of its Growth, and the Development of the Organs of its Faculties, (the nervous membranous Tubuli, and the glandular Machinulæ, perhaps increasing first) becomes sensitive, and enjoys animal Life.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 186 The various stages of the developement and decay of their organs.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 327 As the development progresses the cells..become differentiated.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxi. 415 If the flush of leaves produced by a dressing of nitrogen is at once grazed off the roots will not benefit, and their development will be further restricted.
1978 Copeia No. 3 453/2 There is considerable variation in the rate of development of the swim bladder.
2010 Economist 16 Oct. 94/2 Genes affect the development of brain circuits and this then produces symptoms.
b. The growth or formation of a wart, tumour, or other anatomical aberration.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > condition
flowering1634
mammillation1844
development1847
dysplasia1935
1847 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 27 Nov. The thin edge of the liver..had been forced several inches above the margin of the diaphragm by the upward development of the tumor.
1894 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 June 1305/2 There was some further development of warts on the scalp and in the lumbar region.
1912 A. E. Hertzler Treat. Tumors i. 39 The value of Cohnheim's theory has been great, in that it was the first plausible explanation of the development of tumors which took into account cellular pathology.
1975 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 75 1161 A protective coating of Vaseline Petroleum Jelly, zinc oxide, or other thick ointment may prevent the development of sores.
2014 P. E. H. Nymark & S. Anttila in S. Anttila & P. Boffetta Occup. Cancers xii. 243/1 Early effects may be reversible or have a very low probability of causing the development of a tumor.
3.
a. Growth or maturation into a form which is more advanced, more elaborate, etc.; gradual change or progression by successive stages. Also: an instance of this. Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 5a.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun]
growingc1380
profitingc1384
increasec1385
bettering?c1425
progress1457
advancementc1475
service1533
progression1586
increment1609
upgrowinga1618
flowering1629
rise1676
development1756
evolution1796
march1818
headway1832
upgrowth1844
upbuilding1876
the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > [noun]
devolution1629
induction1638
graduality1646
development1756
evolution1796
transition1800
evolvement1801
shading-off1858
transitioning1955
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > continuous progress or advance of anything
tenor1398
coursec1460
passage1579
current1587
racec1590
profluencea1639
runlong1674
development1756
fore-march1822
upbuilding1876
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > to a further or higher stage > instance of
development1756
1756 A. Smith Let. in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 73 Both of them suppose the same slow progress and gradual development of all the talents, habits, and arts which fit men to live together in society.
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. iv. 143 Only where those means exist..is there a development of holy character.
1861 E. Garbett Boyle Lect. 46 This scheme..exhibits a progressive development, in which there is not a missing link.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 278 Gradual development, without any sudden change.
1912 Mod. Lang. Notes 27 188/2 An orderly chronological development—from liturgical drama to miracle plays, from miracles to morality plays [etc.].
1958 Listener 20 Nov. 813/1 As the polls attempt a nationwide-cross-section one would expect them to reflect the gradual development and movement of political opinion.
1966 F. Schurmann Ideol. & Organization in Communist China i. 40 Given the unilinear development of history, the process of world-wide proletarianization is inevitable.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama i. 54 Much of the subsequent development of British television drama—the shift from single play to art film..—can be dated from the moment at which drama becomes simultaneously expensive, recordable, and marketable.
b. The process by which an individual organism progresses to a complete or more advanced anatomical state.
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1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) I. iii. 71 The transformations of insects..ought rather to be termed a series of developments.
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 686 The latter also differ in their modes of developement.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 111 The development of the sponges has been carefully investigated.
1944 Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 63 348 Some of the larvae penetrate the intestinal wall and gain entrance to the body cavity in 24 hours, where further development occurs.
1973 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 12/1 The juvenile hormone is crucial to the normal development of the insect.
2007 New Scientist 13 Jan. 31/3 In the fourth week of development, vertebrate embryos develop five ridges in the neck region.
c. = evolution n. 8a; the evolutionary process or its result.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun]
development1830
evolution1832
descent1859
genealogy1880
emergence1911
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. ix. 144 (heading) Theory of the progressive development of organic life considered—Evidence in its support wholly inconclusive.
1844 R. Chambers Vestiges Nat. Hist. Creation 203 The whole train of animated beings..are, then, to be regarded as a series of advances of the principle of development.
1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 1 Its various grades may be regarded as stages of development or evolution, each the outcome of previous history.
1922 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 29/1 The development of the dome of the Rhodesian skull presents many puzzling incongruities.
1961 G. G. Simpson Princ. Animal Taxon. iii. 78 Parallelism is the development of similar characters separately in two or more lineages of common ancestry and on the basis of, or channeled by, characteristics of that ancestry.
2005 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 30 June a10/5 Certain aspects of the development of the eye..seem to these scientists to require, for their explanation, what has come to be called ‘intelligent design’.
4.
a. The state or condition of being developed (in various senses).
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun]
proofc1330
worka1382
workinga1382
consequentc1386
effectc1390
processa1400
consequencec1400
sequel1477
efficacea1492
operation1525
branch1526
efficacy1549
trial1559
ensuing1561
repercussion1603
success1606
productiona1610
salutation1609
succeedinga1616
pursuancea1626
spawna1631
income1635
result1638
importance1645
consequency1651
product1651
causal1652
causate1656
consectary1659
propter hoc1671
inference1673
corollary1674
resultment1683
produce1698
recussion1754
development1803
suitea1806
eventuation1813
sequent1838
sequence1853
causatum1879
sequela1883
ramification1925
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > state of or advanced condition
advancement1540
improvement1626
development1803
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > state of being prepared or ready > state of being ripe or mature
ripenessOE
ripeOE
melchheadc1350
perfectiona1398
perfecturea1552
maturity1568
matureness1661
age1795
development1803
coming of age1881
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > vigorous growth > well-grown condition
development1803
rankness1850
1803 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1802 1 928/1 The second, or proper species of eggs..are provided with all the food which is necessary to its support and growth, to the period of its perfect development.
1851 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica i. 17 His disciple..has carried the doctrine to its fullest development.
1920 H. M. Lamon Incubation of Hens' Eggs (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1106) 8 Eggs with dead germs will show only partial development and lack this clear, distinct outline.
1965 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 55 112 Beach ridges attain fullest development adjacent to distributory channels.
2015 L. O'Brien-Rothe Songs that make Road Dance 217 The five-course guitar was brought to its highest development and popularity in Italy.
b. A developed form of an earlier or more rudimentary organism, structure, idea, etc.
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1833 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 317/2 It is not until a later development, that the individual spirit gains so much sway.
1845 J. H. Newman Ess. Devel. Christian Doctr. (1846) i. iii. 58 The butterfly is the development..of the grub.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. i. 2 The last orders of Gothic architecture were the development of the first.
1871 R. W. Dale Ten Commandm. Introd. 4 The Christian Faith may be spoken of as, in some sense, the development of Judaism.
1917 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics IX. 58/2 A later development of the gusli was the psalter, with eleven strings and a rounded body.
1993 Empire Aug. 59/1 The thing is the development of the idea process.
2005 J. Matkin Gnostic Gospels 59 Coptic is the final development of the ancient Egyptian language.
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a. The formulation or creation of something by successive stages of improvement or advancement.
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1827 Lancet 13 Jan. 481/1 The Council had awarded the first prize to Mr. John Dalton..for the development of the chemical theory of definite proportions, usually called the atomic theory.
1897 Astrophysical Jrnl. 6 271 There often exists between two allied sciences a broad ground,..which may be so extensive and fertile as to justify the development of a new science.
1939 Fortune Nov. 97 (advt.) All these additions to media have led to the development of new advertising techniques.
1978 P. Thompson Voice of Past viii. 219 The discovery of information and development of an interpretation went forward hand-in-hand.
1980 Sci. Amer. Feb. 32/1 The control of interference lies at the heart of spectrum allocation, which entails the development of systematic plans for the use of frequencies in radio communication.
2013 T. Dodge School of Arizona Dranes iii. 57 The new religion [sc. Pentecostalism] also fostered the development of a new style of music.
b. The action or process of designing and bringing to fruition a new product or technology, typically after the implementation of alterations to the original concept following testing or consultation. Frequently in in development. Cf. research and development n.
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1840 H. Reid Remarks Statements regarding Invention Steam Engine 25 We are not claiming much merit in contributing to the development of Steam-power.
1897 Aeronaut. Ann. 3 2 The development of the motorless air-sailer.
1921 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 27 Mar. (Automotive section) 4/4 This car has been in development in the Kokomo plant for several years.
1985 W. Aspray in Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 (Charles Babbage Inst. Reprint Series Hist. Computing Vol. VII) p. xvii The Numeroscope, described by Harrison Fuller, never went far in development despite being the first attempt to generate electronic images of numerals.
2013 Radio Times 2 Nov. (South/West ed.) 122/3 Britain emerged from the Second World War in financial crisis, but the development of the jet engine..resulted in a world-leading aviation industry.
c. A new or refined product, technology, etc. Frequently with in.
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?1901 W. D. Thompson Poker Work ii. 17 The ‘Pyro’..is another development in Poker machines which..does away with the spirit-lamp.
1956 Life 2 Apr. 110/2 (advt.) Edison Voicewriter—Newest development in electronic communication.
1989 New Scientist 29 July 57/2 They invited eminent astrophysicists to run workshops on the newest developments in telescope technology and published the proceedings in the form of books. Never since, have I underestimated amateur astronomers.
2007 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 17 May e4/1 The latest development in the spa world is a swim spa that combines the benefits of a counter-current pool and a hot tub.
6. The economic and social advancement of a country, region, etc., esp. one in the developing world. Frequently attributive (see Compounds 1).
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society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > industrialization or development
development1846
industrializing1855
industrialization1892
1846 Dublin Univ. Mag. Apr. 400 He had no other object than that which had become his settled purpose—the development of the country, and the good of its people.
1886 Athenæum 30 Oct. 559/3 While Australia is described at length, the development of Canada since the Peace is hardly mentioned.
1905 Spectator 7 Jan. 5/2 In a country where the financial problem is..so delicate, it would be a mistake to put the policy of development at the mercy of a catch vote.
1982 Dædalus Spring 133 All African countries lack sufficient managerial, administrative, and technical skills to undertake the massive task of development contemplated at independence.
2010 Mercury (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 11 Nov. 6 The creation of a G20 action plan to aid and encourage development to reduce poverty in the developing world.
7.
a. The action or process of modifying a site or property so as to enhance its profitability or suitability for a particular purpose; the conversion of land to a new purpose, esp. by constructing new buildings. Frequently attributive (see Compounds 1).housing development, land development, ribbon development, etc.: see the first element.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development
development1874
urbanism1884
town planning1906
city planning1907
urban planning1907
redevelopment1908
housing development1912
structure planning1969
1874 Commerc. Gaz. 8 Jan. 1/2 We must, in fact, have a Landlord and Tenant Act in England—a tenant-right Act—which would give to the tenant perfect security for his investment in the proper development of land.
1936 P. Nash Dorset 6 All those courageous enemies of ‘development’ to whom we owe what is left of England.
1976 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 10 Sept. 7/3 These last breeding grounds are now endangered by development on the island.
2007 Independent 24 Oct. (Property section) 10/2 As long as the building is no more than four metres high..the outbuilding would fall within permitted development.
b. A site or property that is being or has been developed, esp. into new residential accommodation; spec. = housing estate n. at housing n.1 Compounds 2.See also housing development n. at housing n.1 Compounds 2.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > a development
urbanization1939
development1957
scheme1968
1912 House & Garden Apr. 3/3 (advt.) Philipse Manor is a high class development, with miles of complete improvements, and with a wide boulevard through the center of the property.
1931 J. Held Flesh is Weak 33 When they got out to where a real-estate development had recently been started, Al slowed the machine to the edge of the pavement and stopped at a large white sign.
1957 W. H. Whyte Organization Man 274 The little developments that encircle some towns.
2015 Guardian 13 Feb. 19/1 Almost half the floorspace in the new development will be for private sale.
8. Originally North American. Chiefly Education. The action or process of fundraising, esp. for a charity or educational institution.Earliest in attributive use: see Compounds 1b.
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1953 A. C. Marts Philanthropy's Role in Civilization 103 The modern independent college..will do well to establish a development department, with a competent, full-time administrator in charge. Under his general direction will operate the annual alumni fund.
1965 Princeton Alumni Weekly 1 June 12/1 Development is more an art than a science... He identifies a constituency, and then he devises a machinery for communicating to its members the Princeton story.
1986 Tampa Bay Mag. Oct. 54/1 Spearheading the fundraising effort is Holly Duncan, director of development.
1995 R. F. America Philanthropy & Econ. Devel. xiii. 169 Foundations should work with Afro-America to create another source of permanent independents funding for development.
2009 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 3 Feb. a4 ‘We're just..encouraged that Canadians are recognizing that there are people out there who need help,’ said..the organization's territorial secretary for public relations and development.
II. Senses relating to disclosure, becoming visible, or opening out.† 9.
a. The action or process of uncovering or bringing to light something previously hidden or undisclosed, or of shedding light on an unclear matter. Cf. develop v. 1. Obsolete.Sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > a disclosure > fuller disclosure
development1756
1752 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 13 Apr. in Lett. to Son (1774) II. 233 A développement that must prove fatal to Regal and Papal pretensions.]
1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope I. ii. 50 These observations on Thomson..might be still augmented by an examination and developement of the beauties in the Loves of the birds, in Spring.
1774 W. Cole Let. 5 Oct. in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 346 Your rencounters at Thornbury were really comic, and Mr Holwell's development of himself after so much bearishness must have been a very laughable scene.
1786 Mrs. Johnson Francis I. 155 Congratulations..on the developement, so much to his honour, of this intricate and confused affair.
1812 W. Adams Pract. Observ. on Ectropium iii. 175 I have directed a considerable portion of my attention, to the development of the various causes which retard the patient's progress in acquiring a knowledge of visual objects, as well as to the best methods of training the eyes for its attainment.
1830 Wesleyan Methodist Mag. Jan. 34/1 A near approach to a full development of the whole of this long unravelled mystery.
1851 W. E. Gladstone State Prosecutions Neapolitan Govt. 7 Essential to the entire development of my case.
b. A section of a work in which detailed information about the subject is provided. Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun]
discoveringa1375
nakeninga1382
bewrayingc1386
detection1471
discoverture?1473
revelationc1485
disclosinga1513
disclosurea1525
disclose1548
overture1548
patefaction1553
displaying1556
discovery1567
unripping1568
revealment1576
discoverment1578
retection1581
unmaskinga1586
unclasping?1592
denudation1593
untrussing1597
uncovering1598
detecting1604
divulging1604
divulgation1610
unvizardinga1628
exposinga1631
divulgement1632
unbowellinga1639
unfolding1646
revealinga1649
unrolling1648
pre-discovery1653
discoverance1664
unshelling1670
development1760
unveilinga1774
disclosal1786
displayment1801
divulgence1851
revelationism1854
unbosoming1910
uncovery1963
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xiii. 77 A map..with many other pieces and developments to this work, will be added to the end of the twentieth volume.
10. † a. The action or process of carefully unrolling a scroll which has become rigid. Obsolete.In quots. with reference to manuscripts found during excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum.† b. Geometry. The action of mapping a curved surface (esp. that of a cylinder or cone) onto a plane surface in such a way that no distortions or discontinuities occur; a plane figure produced by such an action. Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > papyrus > [noun] > unrolling of rigid papyrus or other roll
development1800
1800 J. Hayter Herculanean & Pompeian MSS 12 About thirty years ago, His Sicilian Majesty ordered the Developement, the Transcription, and the printing of the Volumes [rolls]..to be undertaken.
1817 (title) Herculaneum Rolls.—Correspondence relative to a proposition made by Dr. Sickler, of Hildburghausen, upon the subject of their development.
1837 Lit. Gaz. 5 Aug. 497/2 While the process of developement goes on as at present, our enjoyment of this treasure might be reserved for the millennium.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun]
space1521
excourse?c1550
extendure1610
extendedness1674
expansion1690
extension1790
development1807
extensitya1834
1807 J. Pond tr. S. F. Lacroix in J. Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. (rev. ed.) I. p. cxx/2 The most simple of the projections by developement [Fr. projections par développement], is what is called the Conical Projection.
1853 W. Johnson Armengaud's Pract. Draughtsman's Bk. Industr. Design 53/2 The development of the conical helix may be obtained by means of an operation analogous to that employed for the development of the cone.
1926 Math. Gaz. 13 245 The perimeter of the elliptic section so formed will then be equal in length to the str. line..in the development of the cone in Fig. 1.
c. The action or process of representing the surface of an object on a plane surface as if unfolding or unrolling it; a plane figure produced by such an action.
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1826 P. Nicholson Pract. Carpentry, Joinery, & Cabinet-making i. i. 7 It is sometimes an advantage to consider the whole surface of the body to be spread out flat upon the plane of the drawing; a surface spread out in this manner is called the development of the object.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 691/1 Development, the process of drawing the figures which given lines on a curved surface would assume, if that surface were a flexible sheet and were spread out flat upon a plane without alteration of area and without distortion.
1921 Stone Apr. 204/2 In order to work or cut the stones belonging to the domed surface in a systematic manner, it becomes necessary to develop the surfaces of the longitudinal joints. The method generally employed for this development is that as shown in the diagrams.
1981 M. A. Parker & F. Pickup Engin. Drawing (ed. 3) iv. 88 Development is a term used in sheet metal work and means the unfolding or unrolling of a surface into a plane.
2004 D. L. Goetsch et al. Tech. Drawing (ed. 5) ix. 355/1 A development is the pattern or template of a shape that is laid out in a single flat plane in preparation for the bending or folding of a material to a required shape.
11. An event constituting a new stage in a changing or evolving situation; a fact or circumstance emerging or coming to light.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > something that emerges
development1805
emergent1920
1805 Goshen (Indiana) Mid-week News 6 Feb. A special to The News received at 2:30 this afternoon says there were no new developments and that what was supposed to be the Chicora's hull passed from view altogether.
1830 Mechanic's Free Press 9 Oct. We look with anxiety for further developments.
1890 C. Cole Auroraphone iii. 67 Mel and I hurriedly whitened up our faces..set our features into corpse-like rigidity, and..awaited developments.
1928 Publishers' Weekly (N.Y.) 24 Nov. 2191 The October '27 issue of The Outlook was devoted almost entirely to confessions and developments proving Vanzetti's innocence.
1950 N.Y. Times 15 Sept. 9/6 In a day of fast-breaking developments, the Government accepted the resignation of two of the three-man commission.
1994 J. Coe What a Carve Up! (1995) 13 He tries to put a favourable gloss on a new development in his career which clearly strikes her as more frivolous than most.
2013 Bahrain News Agency (Nexis) 1 July The GCC-member countries announced they have been following with utmost concernment latest developments in Syria.
12. Photography. The process by which a latent photographic image is rendered visible; the action or process of rendering such an image visible; the action or process of developing a photograph.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > development
development1839
developing1851
1839 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 317 When the development appears complete, the plate is placed in a vessel containing either a saturated solution of common salt, or a weak solution of the hypo-sulphite of pure soda.
1881 Eng. Mech. 23 Dec. 382/1 The exposed plates, after development and before fixing, should be put for half a minute or so in a solution of alum.
1924 Manch. Guardian 3 July 10/6 The process differs somewhat from that which takes place in ordinary development.
1973 W. Thomas SPSE Handbk. Photogr. Sci. & Engin. vi. 407 Sufficient exposure of an emulsion to light causes visible darkening without development (a print-out image).
2011 Long Island (N.Y.) Business News (Nexis) 12 Aug. With the shift to digital photography over the last decade, film development has started to go the way of the dinosaurs.
III. Specialized uses.
13.
a. The generation or release of heat, electricity, etc., as a result or by-product of a process. Cf. develop v. 12b.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production
generationa1382
engenderinga1400
outbearinga1425
productionc1450
produce1562
prolation1577
procreation1578
generating1579
edition1605
producement1613
elaboration1617
flowering1634
pullulation1641
factory1664
development1794
output1841
output1887
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 176 How slow is the developement of heat.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 81/2 It is in the mode of its development that the chief peculiarity of Animal Electricity consists.
1914 C. M. Jansky Elem. Magnetism & Electr. i. 14 The development of magnetism within a body when placed in the vicinity of a magnet is called magnetic induction.
1967 H. J. Stern Rubber (ed. 2) xi. 490 Rapidly alternating stresses or deformations..give rise to the development of heat in the rubber.
2007 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 10 Feb. f13 The development of static when entering or exiting a vehicle is often caused by the material on the seats.
b. Chemistry. The generation or release of a chemical substance (esp. a gas) as a result or by-product of a process. Cf. develop v. 12a.
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1797 Jrnl. Nat. Philos., Chem., & Arts July 175 The nature of the rachitic disorder arises..from the development of an acid approaching in its properties to the vegetable acids.
1829 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 3 New Ser. 126 The development of carbonic acid, or rather the escape of it in the shape of gas, will, by the pressure of the compressed air, contained in the air chamber, be as effectually checked..as if the liquor were kept within corked bottles.
1874 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 164 395 Those portions of the mass burn quietly with a weak flame accompanied by the development of inflammable gas.
1902 Weekly Irish Times 14 June 19/1 A good starter..hastens the development of lactic acid.
1969 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 56 962/2 Dilute hydrogen fluoride..causes the decomposition of the photolyte with the development of carbon dioxide.
2000 C. K. Sen in Z. Radák Free Radicals in Exercise & Aging p. ix Under resting conditions, 2 to 5% of the total oxygen consumed by tissues may contribute to the development of reactive oxygen species.
14. Mathematics. The action or process of deriving an infinite series that, for a given range of values, is equivalent to a specified function; the series so derived. Now rare.
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1799 Monthly Rev. 28 App. 573 The learned author remarked that the true principles of the theory of fluxions were contained in the theory of the developement of analytic functions.
1816 C. Babbage tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus i. 148 This developement has been obtained by first putting x + h instead of x.
1886 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 8 192 The coefficients c of the function v are the same as those in the development of cos log ( x + 1 ).
1906 Ann. Math. 7 81 If the function is subjected to suitable restrictions, this development will actually converge to the value of the function.
1932 E. R. Hedrick & C. A. Noble tr. F. Klein Elem. Math. iii. i. 146 The calculation of logarithms is probably discussed in the majority of cases, and in many schools indeed the theory of natural logarithms and the development into series is taught for this purpose.
1990 C. Pearson Handbk. Appl. Math. (ed. 2) 236 In many applications it is necessary to know the Taylor series development of an analytic function about some point.
15. Chess. The process of bringing one’s pieces into play during the opening phase of a game, or the speed or effectiveness with which a player does this; the bringing of a piece or pieces into play during the opening. Cf. develop v. 15.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > chess > [noun] > part of game
opening1735
endgame1749
development1820
middle game1848
1820 J. S. Bingham tr. D. L. Ponziani Incomparable Game of Chess i. iv. 32 The opening of the game ought to be made with the greatest possible development.
1832 W. Hone Year Bk. Daily Recreation 284/2 The first portion of a work by Mr. Lewis..is intended to contain every information requisite for the perfect development of the pieces in all the usual openings.
1889 E. Freeborough & C. E. Ranken Chess Openings 14 When you cannot see your way to an attacking move, play a development move.
1935 G. E. Smith & T. G. Bone tr. S. Tarrasch Game of Chess iv. 284 White is forced into the rather sorry development of his Queen's Knight at Q2. Black has undoubtedly the superior development.
1952 S. Tartakower & J. du Mont 500 Master Games of Chess i. xii. 238/1 Black has a small but distinct advantage in development.
1970 tr. B. Larsen Sel. Games Chess, 1948–69 181 Severe cases of neglected development are rare in master games.
2010 Financial Times 4 Sept. 54/3 With fast development for a pawn.
16. Music. Esp. with regard to sonata form: the reshaping of a theme or themes stated earlier in the same composition or movement by modifications of melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, etc.; the section in which this takes place.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > theme > development
working out1611
development1838
working out1841
1838 J. A. Hamilton Catech. on Nature of Musical Ideas 10 Cannot development be used in vocal music?
1880 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music (at cited word) The most perfect types of development are to be found in Beethoven's works, with whom not seldom the greater part of a movement is the constant unfolding and opening out of all the latent possibilities of some simple rhythmic figure.
?1890 H. A. Harding Anal. Form Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas 5 The Coda begins with a development of the figure taken from the 1st subject.
1917 Musical Times 58 13/2 Can we complain of a work in which, together with this abundance of themes and the use in the recapitulation of details from the development section, the music preserves a character of exceeding clearness?
1990 G. Hopkins Closure Mahler's Music 148 The resolution of the dominant chord..both closes the development and marks the beginning of the recapitulation.
2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Mar. ar 11 The opera is a miracle of Beethovenian motivic development, a gossamer score made up of wondrous, quirky bits, pieces and strands of motifs, melodies and dancing riffs.
17. The action or process of refining a technical drawing or part of a drawing by adding further detail; the action of producing a detailed technical drawing or plan based on a prior, less detailed, work.Now merged in sense 1.
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1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. 107 Development. A drawing is said to be developed when certain working details are drawn in full. Thus a propeller blade is developed when the various transverse sections are shown.
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 156/2 Development, giving full details of some part of a piece of work.
1953 Manch. Guardian 26 Oct. 11/1 Draughtsman for sheet-metal work required with experience in the preparation and development of drawings for sheet-metal work.
2003 Managem. Sci. 49 1191/1 The lack of CAD operators delayed the development of an assembly drawing, which hampered the ability of the manufacturing engineer to represent his knowledge to the design engineer.
Compounds
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a. General attributive (chiefly in senses 6 and 7), as development company, development operation, development policy, development scheme, etc.
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1860 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 4 Dec. We have elected the only advocate of the protective policy, or the development policy, as it may with greater fitness be called, who had any chance of success.
1886 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 15 May 360/2 This plan is in substitution of the recent proposal to raise capital by means of a development company.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 21 Apr. 4/3 Advance moneys for development purposes.
1900 Daily News 11 June 2/1 Development operations have been carried out upon the Le Roi, No. 2 Property.
1937 S. J. Truscott Mine Econ. ii. 8 Sampling for the establishment of reserves is conducted primarily upon the exposures along the roads by which the deposit is explored and the property developed, this being Development Sampling.
1960 Times 20 Apr. 7/6 A development scheme..where elegant tradition is not ousted by ruthless..concrete architects.
1990 Economist 22 Sept. 33/3 Lloyds Bank estimates that foreign firms account for three-quarters of all projects receiving development assistance.
1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 9/1 The development committee agreed on Tuesday not to save money by scrapping the rural shop improvement scheme.
2015 Contra Costa Times (Calif.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. A development firm is pressing ahead with one of the city's largest housing projects in decades.
b. In sense 8, as development department, development office, development officer, etc.
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1953Development department [see sense 8].
1955 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 17 Dec. 1/7 A donation of $1,500 from the G. C. Murphy Company Foundation was received by the development office this week through the manager of the local Murphy store.
1978 Jrnl. Illinois State Hist. Soc. 71 151 Our development office... [was] formed to seek support from non-traditional sources that could enhance the programs of the Historical Society.
1994 Times (Nexis) 24 May New College's development manager..fully expects the building to be operational for the first delivery of the 1995 season.
1998 Independent 9 Apr. (Educ. Plus section) 5/2 The Higher Education External Relations Association..which represents public relations, alumni and development officers of universities throughout the country.
2002 Independent 6 Nov. 16/2 The notion that fund-raising figures can be fiddled continues to make life difficult for university development directors.
c.
development cost n.
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1897 Liverpool Mercury 21 Oct. There was a balance of about £1113 of development cost to be added to capital.
1972 Nature 28 Jan. 183/2 In high technology..errors in estimates of development cost are more serious in their effects.
2001 PC Gamer Oct. 30/4 They wanted a publishing deal which also covered the development costs of Wizardry 9, but none of the big players fancy taking the financial risk.
development fund n.
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1898 N.Y. Times 19 July 5 All the stockholders had contributed to the development fund, about $150,000 being expended last year alone.
1957 Times of India 12 June 11/3 The United States expected to use approximately 150 million to 200 million dollars from the development fund in the form of loans for Asian nations.
2002 F. M. Hassan Lesotho iii. 15/2 A Development Fund was established in 1992..for financing programs targeted to the alleviation of poverty.
development phase n.
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1926 San Antonio (Texas) Express 13 Apr. 10/6 The development phase included the expenditure of vast sums upon railroads, highways, hotels and homes, to meet a population expansion of 300 per cent in many cities.
1990 Flight Internat. 25 July 3/2 There are precious few ‘cost-plus’ contracts out there now which will have made the manufacturer a profit by the end of the development phase.
2002 I. Mallick in A.K. Bagchi Money & Credit Indian Hist. 206 He was instrumental in building up a large bank which served various economic needs of the region in its development phase.
development plan n.
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1898 Sunday Leader (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) 23 Jan. The development plan includes the opening and working of mines and building and operating smelters.
1927 Washington Post 16 Oct. 16/3 Radical differences between the development plan approved by the Commissioners in 1924 and the present plan will be pointed out in the letter.
2007 N. Rosen How to live Off-grid vii. 294 In Scotland the system is more complicated, and each council has a development plan, a structure plan and a local plan.
development programme n.
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1902 Financial Times 13 Feb. 6/5 The commencement of sinking in the four-compartment main shaft is set for a fortnight hence, and this will inaugurate the principal feature of the big mine's development programme for the year.
1951 Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. 3 283/1 The mark I Toposcope was too limited in its resolution, but the results..were sufficiently encouraging to warrant the initiation of a development programme.
1986 Tampa Bay Mag. Oct. 55/1 Duncan, an expert fundraiser who directed the development program for the Florida Orchestra for five years,..has a three-point plan of action.
2010 Daily Tel. 9 Nov. 33/1 Following the Nixon administration's decision to scrap the development programme, Patrick devoted himself to..working as an adviser to the American government.
development process n.
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1841 Wisconsin Enquirer 20 Mar. The ‘development process’ diverges to another point.
1932 Times 5 Mar. 9/2 In the development process it had been run and re-run on the test bench.
2006 New Scientist 11 Nov. 66 (advt.) Providing support for a wide range of products across the development process..you'll enjoy a fantastic opportunity to build your scientific skills.
development project n.
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1877 Fraser's Mag. Aug. 212 The government is not very extravagant in its pursuit of development projects.
1963 Times of India 10 July 7/4 Madras believes that this water-rich State can spare water for the development projects in Madras.
2013 New Yorker 4 Mar. 20/1 [He] has a you-go-first, self-deprecating quality that has served him well in dealing with the community groups that have opposed his development projects over the years.
development stage n.
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1883 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 17 May The business itself is merely in the development stage.
1959 Flight 11 Sept. 212/2 The Autoland single-channel automatic landing system..is now out of the development stage.
2003 Electronics World Jan. 25/1 Fixtures for measuring chip components at low impedance are still in the development stage.
development strategy n.
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1958 Chariton (Iowa) Herald-Patriot 31 July 4/1 Their position is that the laws must be on the books before development strategy can proceed intelligently.
1973 Times 2 July 15/5 So new development strategies put farming back to the centre of planning.
1997 K. B. Hopkins & C. S. Friedman Successful Fundraising Arts & Cultural Organizations (ed. 2) vi. 74 Annual fund programs should be a key component of an organization's overall development strategy.
2009 Independent 2 Feb. 29/2 The crisis presents Africa with a unique opportunity to overhaul its development strategy away from the aid-based model.
development work n.
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1877 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 8 Nov. He has pushed the prospecting and development work at least one year ahead of the ore extraction.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Feb. 5/2 No development work has been done whatever, not a shaft has been sunk.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 11 Feb. 11/4 About 5,000 ft. of development work has been done on the claims.
1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 19 Oct. 3/3 The Department of Education and Science has given £250,000 over two years to fund development work on a part-time distance learning package.
2001 Baptist Times 15 Mar. 9/3 I saw many aspects of village life and..the development work being carried out within the tribal villages.
C2.
development agency n. any of various agencies that help support economic growth, social progress, etc., within a specified country or region, esp. one currently underdeveloped.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [noun] > other types of association, society, or organization
invisible college1647
rota1660
working party1744
free association1761
working committee1821
Ethical Society1822
bar association1824
league1846
congress1870
tiger1874
cult1875
Daughters of the American Revolution1890
community group1892
housing association1898
working party1902
development agency1910
affinity group1915
propaganda machine1916
funding body1922
collective1925
Ku-Klux1930
network1946
NGO1946
production brigade1950
umbrella organization1950
plantation1956
think-tank1958
think group1961
team1990
1910 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Morning Jrnl. 5 June A most important meeting from the standpoint of Western development and the work of the foremost development agency of the country..is being held.
1947 Observer 22 June 4/5 To outline the administrative machinery—which would necessitate a Central Development Agency—required to elaborate and carry out the programme, ensuring proper use of the credits provided.
1976 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective (1985) xi. 378 There is a real danger that ‘Social Soundness Analyses’ for USAID or other development agencies, governmental or voluntary, may become routine certificates of fitness.
2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Jan. 32/3 Roughly half of Cambodia's national budget is provided by foreign governments and development agencies.
development aid n. financial aid given by governments or other agencies to support the long-term economic advancement of a country or region, esp. one currently underdeveloped.
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1939 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 6 May d2/7 (headline) Nicaragua seeks development aid.
1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl i. 13 An envoy from the Ivory Coast was speaking on the international telephone, advising his masters of his latest efforts to wring development aid out of an increasingly reluctant German exchequer.
2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 5 Sept. a23/3 Mainstream economists..campaign to convince rich countries to give more development aid.
development area n. any of several regions of the United Kingdom which have been identified by the government as suffering or liable to suffer from unemployment, and where the introduction of new industry is encouraged.This designation was introduced by the Distribution of Industry Act of 1945.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > area where business is encouraged
development area1945
enterprise zone1978
1945 Act 8 & 9 Geo. VI c. 36 §1 In any area specified in the First Schedule to this Act (hereinafter referred to as a ‘development area’) the Board of Trade may for the purpose of facilitating the provision of premises needed for meeting the requirements of industrial undertakings..acquire..land for the provision..of such premises.
1961 E. A. Powdrill Vocab. Land Planning iv. 65 Industrial estates should not necessarily be confused with the Government's programme for inducing industry to occupy sites in Development Areas.
1995 Times (Nexis) 18 Oct. (Features section) 35 per cent of Wales's population lived in a designated development area, where relocating companies could obtain substantial grants.
development bank n. a bank which aims to promote economic and social progress, esp. in developing countries or regions, through loans at low or no interest, equity investment, etc.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank > other types of bank
merchant bank1620
land-bank1696
private bank1696
paper bankc1720
national bank1736
bank of circulation1767
bank of deposit1767
corporate bank1780
state bank1791
branch bank1796
reserve bank1816
investment bank1824
bank of issue1831
commercial bank1838
red dog1838
wild cat1838
central bank1841
national bank1864
investment house1878
issue house1878
clearing-bank1883
issuing house1890
member bank1914
custodian1915
merchant banker1924
Swiss bank1949
development bank1950
Transcash1982
telephone bank1985
bancassurer1991
1950 Scotsman 14 Sept. 8/2 The other loan, for 2,000,000 dollars, will provide foreign exchange for projects to be financed by the new Ethiopian Development Bank.
1959 Times of India 8 Jan. 6 After four years of wrangling the members of the Arab League are finally on the point of setting up a development bank for financing industrial and other long-term projects somewhat along the lines of the World Bank.
2001 Foreign Policy Nov. 25/2 Ultimately, only the arms of multilateral development banks that provide soft loans—with little or no interest and very long repayment periods—are gong to keep lending to HIPCs, and only then under very stringent conditions.
2011 New Yorker 5 Dec. 61/1 The government development bank..is by far the biggest and best domestic source of low-interest credit to businesses.
development economics n. a branch of economics which is concerned with improving the economies of developing countries and regions, esp. through policies to raise standards of living.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > branches or models of
statics1848
classical economics1885
bioeconomics1913
welfare economics1920
econometry1926
econometrics1931
microeconomics1943
macroeconomics1945
development economics1959
microsimulation1966
public choice1968
1959 N.Y. Times 19 July e11/3 Under a $432,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, Williams College will institute a new graduate training program in development economics for students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 24/1 An Inquiry into Well-being and Destitution, as well as being a contribution to development economics, is among other things a tract on moral philosophy and political theory.
2009 Independent 13 Jan. 25/5 In Massachusetts she worked with the MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, who was one of the pioneers of development economics.
development economist adj. a student or practitioner of development economics.
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1957 A. Bonne Stud. in Econ. Devel. iv. 63 So far only few studies are available to guide the development economist in this area.
1973 E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful iii. iii. 180 None of these awesome problems figure noticeably in the cosy theories of most of our development economists.
2010 Atlantic Monthly July 96/1 For much of the 1990s, development economists built on Romer's insights.
development hell n. colloquial (chiefly U.S.) the development stage of a motion picture or other production, esp. when protracted, complicated or apparently unending, considered as a form of torment.
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1988 Daily Herald (Chicago) 15 Sept. (Showcase) 3/5 The writing process takes anywhere from three months to three years... We call it development hell.
1993 Wired Mar. (Premiere Issue) 106/3 Rosendahl recently had to pull back one of his scripts that was languishing in ‘development hell’ at Universal Studios.
1996 Entertainm. Weekly 24 May 31/3 The story rotted in development hell for four years until Goldberg signed on.
2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Oct. w8/1 When it came to ‘High Fidelity’, veteran producers..kept workshop productions to a minimum to avoid what Mr. Seller calls ‘development hell’.
development hypothesis n. now rare = theory of evolution n. at evolution n. 8b.
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the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of genetics or evolution
theory of preformation1756
Darwinizing1807
development hypothesis1845
generationism1847
theory of evolution1858
Darwinism1860
Darwinianism1861
monogenesis1864
monogenism1865
monogeny1865
pangenesis1868
evolutionism1869
phylogeny1869
polygenism1871
derivation1874
phylogenesis1875
transformism1878
biogenetic law1879
gastraea theory1879
fortuitism1881
organicism1883
hereditism1884
kinetogenesis1884
Lamarckianism1884
Lamarckism1884
neo-Lamarckianism1884
monogenesy1885
neo-Lamarckism1887
preformationism1890
neo-Darwinism1891
blastogenesis1893
Haeckel-ismus1894
Weismannism1894
preformism1895
Haeckelism1899
mutation theory1902
directivity1903
Mendelianism1903
Mendelism1903
hereditarianism1906
mutationism1912
selectionism1912
hologenesis1931
parsimony1931
Morganism1934
Lysenkoism1948
neutralism1972
punctuated equilibrium1972
saltationism1975
punctuationism1977
punctuationalism1978
adaptationism1980
geneticism1984
adaptationalism1985
1845 Zool. 3 957 The development hypothesis would demand..that the original seat of the human race should be in a region where the quadrumana [monkeys] are rife.
1852 Leader 20 Mar. 280/1 In a debate upon the development hypothesis..one of the disputants was described as arguing that as..we know no such phenomenon as transmutation of species, it is unphilosophical to assume that transmutation of species ever takes place.
1934 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 88/2 Lewes could forward the pre-Darwinian ‘development hypothesis’ and advocate the claims of Comte.
2013 P. J. Bowler Darwin Deleted iii. 85 Chambers suggested to his publisher..that he should offer a prize for the best essay on the scientific credentials of the development hypothesis.
development rock n. Mining rock extracted during the opening and development of a mine, typically consisting of a mixture of barren rock and low-grade ore.
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1899 Afr. Rev. 27 May 359/1 The development rock is of low grade, and is sent to the mill owing to the present scarcity of native labour.
1954 Times 23 Nov. 12/2 We are at present re-examining several dumps of development rock containing in the aggregate a considerable tonnage of low-grade ore.
2010 G. Blight Geotechn. Engin. Mine Waste Storage Facilities i. 16 Plate 1.4 shows a dump of waste quartzite development rock from a South African gold mine which was built by conveyor and stacker.
development system n. Computing a computer system equipped with specialist software and designed specifically for use in developing and testing software, programmes, etc.; software designed for this purpose.
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1973 Computerworld 31 Oct. 29/3 Users are guaranteed the ability to write programs in any language under control of any development system with associated support packages.
1997 T3 Jan. 18/2 If little Timmy wants to write the next Super Mario , he's got to lash out about 15 grand on a fully-specced development system.
2014 A. Chauhan et al. Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight i. 28 Microsoft has an HDInsight Emulator that runs locally on your development system.
development theory n. (a) = theory of evolution n. at evolution n. 8b (now rare) (b) any of various theories concerning the economic, political, and social development of states, regions, and communities; the field of study concerned with this.
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1845 R. Chambers Explanations 46 Objectors to the development theory have..committed themselves on the subject of the Silurian fossils, in a way which they will yet feel to be extremely awkward.
1944 Austral. Q. June 117 It is true, as Professor Walker says, that he has ‘not attempted to expose every trace of development theory that can be discovered in economic literature’.
1960 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 18 294 Darwin, in his ‘Historical Sketch’ preceding the Origin of Species, credits Spencer with having defended the development theory in 1852.
1985 L. W. Pye Asian Power & Polit. i. 18 It is peculiar that the importance of the concept of power was not more explicitly acknowledged in early development theories.
2014 M. J. Trebilcock Dealing with Losers ix. 139 The field of development theory and practice..has been peculiarly susceptible to all manner of fads and fashions with respect to both the ends and the means of development.
development well n. a well sunk in an area proven to hold gas or oil reserves suitable for exploitation; contrasted with exploratory well n. at exploratory adj. Compounds.
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1913 Moorhead's Q. Rec. July 72 An appropriation of sufficient funds was set aside by the directors to drill development wells, for gas or oil, on a tract of land of about 3.100 acres.
1978 Winnipeg Free Press 26 Apr. 65 Jones also said the decline in development well drilling in Alberta is due to the ‘temporary’ gas surplus.
2005 J. R. Moroney Energy & Sustainable Devel. in Mexico i. xiv Exploration wells drilled in new areas are riskier than development wells drilled after exploration has succeeded.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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