evolvee‧volve /ɪˈvɒlv $ ɪˈvɑːlv/ ●●○ AWL verb [intransitive, transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
Fish evolved from prehistoric sea creatures. Animals have evolved camouflage to protect themselves from predators.2to develop and change gradually over a long period of time: The school has evolved its own style of teaching. Businesses need to evolve rapidly.evolve out of The idea evolved out of work done by British scientists.evolve into The group gradually evolved into a political party.
Verb TableVERB TABLE
evolve
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | evolve |
| he, she, it | evolves | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | evolved |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have evolved |
| he, she, it | has evolved | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had evolved |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will evolve |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have evolved |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am evolving |
| he, she, it | is evolving | |
| you, we, they | are evolving | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was evolving |
| you, we, they | were evolving | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been evolving |
| he, she, it | has been evolving | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been evolving |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be evolving |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been evolving |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Brooks's original idea has now evolved into an official NASA program.
- If you want to be a poet, you must evolve your own style of writing.
- Many scientists now believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
- The city's importance as a financial centre has evolved slowly.
- In fact, biologists now know that eyes arose and evolved independently at least 40 times.
- It may require considerable skill to calculate in just what circumstances particular acts will evolve.
- Someday, I think, it will evolve into a place with real golf spirit.
- The game evolved into the kind of event that you feared would either feature the headliner little, or not at all.
- Thereafter it evolved rapidly into a formidable force.
- They evolve by changing the attitudes, accessibility and availability of the said sport.
- They feed, in the main, on flowering plants, themselves evolved from ancestors without flowers.
Longman Language Activatorto have developed from something► come from
Collocations use this to say that something that exists now developed from something else that existed before: · My idea for the film came from an article I read about West Virginia coal miners.· The name 'terrier' comes from the Latin word 'terra' meaning the earth.
► be based on if a film, story, idea, plan etc is based on something else, that is where its basic ideas or facts come from: · The film is based on a popular Bengali novel.· Overtime pay will be based on the number of hours you work each week.· Your test questions will be based on the work you have done in the past year.
► originate to have developed in a particular place or from a particular situation: · How did the tradition of wearing costumes on Hallowe'en originate?originate in: · Welfare is a program that originated in the 1930s to help widows.· Buddhism originated in India and came to China in the first century A.D.
► go back to to have developed from something that happened or existed a long time ago: · Many phrases in the language go back to early religious writings.· Our friendship goes back to our freshman year in college.· Jo just refuses to get into a car -- it all goes back to when she had that accident.
► have its origins in if something has its origins in something that existed a long time ago, that is where it comes from and is the reason for it being as it is: · Modern medicine often has its origins in ancient ways of doing things.· Vaudeville had its origins in French street culture.
► have its roots in if something such as a belief or attitude has its roots in conditions that existed earlier, it developed from them and is still influenced by them: · Many music historians believe that jazz has its roots in blues music.· Economic policy in the US has its roots in the free market system.
► derive from/be derived from to have developed from something else, especially by a long or complicated process: · Much of the English language is derived from Latin and Greek.· About a quarter of the drugs in prescription medicines today are derived from plants.
► be founded on to have one main idea, belief etc that something else develops from: · The constitution in this country is not written. It's founded on tradition and precedent.· White resistance to Civil Rights was founded on age-old fears of democracy.
► grow out of to develop from something small or simple by becoming bigger or more complicated: · Socialist ideals grew out of an earlier idea that all men are created equal.· The skill of writing grew out of a wish to put speech into a permanent form.
► develop from/evolve from to come from an original idea or form and change into something bigger, more important, or more advanced: · The whole basis of her novel evolved from a chance meeting she had with an old friend.· Within years, the site developed from an area of waste ground into a thriving farm.
to change over a period of time and become bigger, stronger etc► develop · In some patients, the disease develops very slowly.· The interesting part of the movie is how the two women's relationship develops.· The Internet has developed at a remarkable rate.develop from/into · She developed from a shy child into an international star.
► evolve to develop and change gradually over a long period of time: · The city's importance as a financial centre has evolved slowly.evolve from: · Many scientists now believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs.evolve into: · Brooks's original idea has now evolved into an official NASA program.
to develop a new plan, idea, method► develop to make something change over a period of time and become bigger, stronger, better etc: · The department is developing a strategy to fight unemployment.· We need to help young people develop a sense of responsibility while they're still at school.
► evolve to change something gradually over a long period so that it becomes better: · If you want to be a poet, you must evolve your own style of writing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► evolve a strategy
Word family· The creatures which live in the river have evolved strategies for surviving sudden floods.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► constantly· They are, in short, a fusion of ideology and aesthetics in a constantly evolving revolutionary synthesis.· The shape of the Lombard Scheme is constantly evolving, and a working party on its future development will report in 1993.
► gradually· This situation has only evolved gradually.· Thus the constitution can evolve gradually.· For about two years, this ability has been gradually evolving from sensorimotor behaviors.· The custom gradually evolved, so that only a token or emblem of life came to be needed.· According to another speculation, vocal language gradually evolved from spontaneous cries of pain, pleasure, or other emotions.· The helm evolved gradually from the conical Norman helmet, ear flaps being added.· It starts as a dull ache that gradually evolves into a severe throbbing pain, centering in the frontal and temporal regions.
► over· Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension.· Many neural network paradigms have evolved over the past decade.· Challenge the routines that have evolved over the years.· They have evolved over millions of years to occupy their own niche, under the forest's protection.· Your own, personalized weight control programme has not been a sudden thing but has evolved over a long period of time.· Group norms Work groups differ from free-forming groups outside employment in that they evolve over long periods of time.· It all sounds a bit complicated and slightly confusing, but the system has evolved over many years and it works.· In short, it would seem that the relationship must have evolved over and over again.
► rapidly· They evolved rapidly and spread widely, and have a range of distinctive characters to help the investigator in his identifications.· The gravitational fields of these irregular chunks are so lumpy that any orbit is certain to evolve rapidly.· Thereafter it evolved rapidly into a formidable force.· The company dealt with uncertainty through a flexible organizational style, aided by a rapidly evolving information network.· It is also evolving rapidly to meet modern requirements.· The trilobites evolved rapidly, and can therefore be used extensively in the dating of rocks at this time.
► slowly· The loss of orbital energy by the satellite causes it to evolve slowly inward into a closer, shorter-period orbit.· Thus, outbreaks of urban yellow fever evolve slowly.· Existing values and social organization have evolved slowly and have survived the test of time.· The policy instruments which have been used to try to achieve this equitable goal have evolved slowly.· Biological, social, or economic systems enter periods of punctuated equilibrium with slowly evolving but firmly established structures.· They emerge from periods of punctuated equilibrium with radically different structures that once again begin slowly evolving.
► still· Finance opportunities: financial mechanisms are still evolving and are not yet assured of success.· It is one that is still evolving.· The new digital media are still evolving.· These new rules are still evolving and are becoming operative in some parts of the economy more quickly than in others.· By the end of the year the managers were not able to talk confidently about their styles, which were still evolving.
NOUN► animal· To dispel another myth: we have not entirely evolved from this animal ability to use our senses for survival.· Indeed, the idea that humans are curiously evolved cousins of the animals seems basic to primitive myth in general.· One is that, because we have evolved from other animals, it makes sense to project downwards from ourselves.
► form· They evolved a form of worship which required neither priest, Temple nor sacrifice.· It may seem odd that sterile animals can evolve a variety of forms, but this too comes from indirect natural selection.· Dealing with this problem, many species have evolved various forms of colour change.
► idea· The present-day breeding habits of some birds give us a reasonably good idea of how polyandry evolved.
► kind· It has independently evolved a quite different kind of lung from that of our ancestors - an air chamber surrounding the gills.· The game evolved into the kind of event that you feared would either feature the headliner little, or not at all.· That's Tunnel's motto, and because of this the studio has evolved into a special kind of working environment.· The genes for cell division did not evolve to separate different kinds of fish.· I conjecture that co-adapted meme-complexes evolve in the same kind of way as co-adapted gene-complexes.· Males have evolved other kinds of counter-adaptations to prevent sperm competition.
► society· As society evolved from the end of the nineteenth century, so pressure for local government reorganization increased.· Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.· Complex societies have evolved in which production is organized in massively detailed systems of interdependency.· Potential sources of human infections change as society evolves.· Almost all anthropologists have followed suit, speaking of primitive cultures as compared with the civilizations that more developed societies have evolved.
► species· Each species has evolved to deal with life in separate compartments.· Some species of pests then evolve ways of breaking down the toxins, and so on.· In other species males have evolved special weapons with which they fight over females.· Each academic species has evolved its own language, so interdisciplinary communication is rare and fitful.· So how could a species slowly and randomly evolve the ability not to be killed outright?· It is not so much the organism or the species that evolves, but the entire system, species plus environment.· Dealing with this problem, many species have evolved various forms of colour change.· The fossil record shows that species do not evolve, &.
► strategy· It was that very intelligence which evolved the master strategies.· The difficult part - at least before creating the advertising itself - is to evolve a creative strategy to meet the objectives.· As a result, lower and upper rivers evolve their own investment strategy.· Starfish, the most easily recognisable of the echinoderms have in addition evolved a further reproduction strategy.· How to evolve a strategy to actually sell a product.· Mr Court acknowledged that management consultants and advertising agencies had overlapping roles in evolving brand strategy.
► style· What is evolving is a derivative style, or faux formal.
► system· The immune system has evolved to defend the individual against a diverse array of micro-organisms.· Over time, some bicameral systems have evolved toward unicameral systems.· In parallel with the work of the classification theorists, general systems theory has evolved to consider similar problems.· During the industrial era, our political system evolved to respond to the needs of a mass society.· Social systems evolve in close relation to ecology.· The entire system of evolving life and planet was coevolution, the dance of the chameleon on the mirror.· As time goes by, the system will evolve according to the laws of science and its state will change.· The Poole Advertiser has slightly more advanced software than the Messenger Group but both systems are evolving almost daily.
► technology· We have no way of knowing whether any other animals now extinct - pterodactyls perhaps? - also evolved the technology independently.
► way· Do you think they evolved that way?· Some species of pests then evolve ways of breaking down the toxins, and so on.· In addition, some bacteria and all green plants have evolved ways of using light as a source of energy.· This has allowed the protocol definition to evolve in a controlled way by the incorporation of tested ideas.· All these spikes evolved originally as a way of preventing predation by larger fish.· And then Sendak's most celebrated book evolved way beyond the toy department.· Some agents of disease, too, have failed to evolve their way around medical advance, although some day they may.· Fish moved from the lower parts to the headwaters soon evolve local ways.
► ways· In addition, some bacteria and all green plants have evolved ways of using light as a source of energy.· Some species of pests then evolve ways of breaking down the toxins, and so on.· Fish moved from the lower parts to the headwaters soon evolve local ways.· That was before a new seventeenth-century protectiveness evolved special ways to treat kids.· Its descendants evolved in quite different ways.· Salmonella and Listeria have both evolved ways to hide in white blood cells without being destroyed.· Groups evolve expected ways to behave which their members must normally obey.· No one can be quite sure, of course, what has caused the two species to evolve in slightly different ways.
► years· Challenge the routines that have evolved over the years.· It has evolved over the years from a nouveau style to a more weighty red wine with distinctive black raspberry fruit.· They have evolved over millions of years to occupy their own niche, under the forest's protection.· It all sounds a bit complicated and slightly confusing, but the system has evolved over many years and it works.· It is therefore useful to bear in mind how these views have evolved over recent years.· But really it was a skilled, even magical, craft, evolved over two hundred years.
VERB► begin· From his observation and writings, it is clear that the structures of intelligence and feelings begin to evolve during infancy.· Turnkey systems arrived soon after and the technology began to evolve and grow rapidly.· Not until later does awareness of causality begin to evolve.· A specification for the computer system which will satisfy the user's requirements begins to evolve.· They emerge from periods of punctuated equilibrium with radically different structures that once again begin slowly evolving.· Within Tierra, programs began to evolve into shorter versions of themselves.
► continue· The content of core programmes will continue to evolve to reflect the changing reality of the business environment.· And they were continuing to evolve, heading for a deeper sense of responsibility.· It is interesting to note that certain problems which have been solved by technological improvements reappear as the technology continues to evolve.
WORD FAMILYnounevolutionadjectiveevolutionaryverbevolve
1if an animal or plant evolves, it changes gradually over a long period of time → evolutionevolve from Fish evolved from prehistoric sea creatures. Animals have evolved camouflage to protect themselves from predators.2to develop and change gradually over a long period of time: The school has evolved its own style of teaching. Businesses need to evolve rapidly.evolve out of The idea evolved out of work done by British scientists.evolve into The group gradually evolved into a political party.