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Definition: Development |
DevelopmentNoun1. Act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; "he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency"; "they funded research and development". 2. A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); "the development of his ideas took many years"; "the evolution of Greek civilization"; "the slow development of her skill as a writer". 3. A recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!". 4. The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful: "the development of Alaskan resources"; "the exploitation of copper deposits". 5. A district that has been developed to serve some purpose; "such land is practical for small park developments". 6. A state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess); "after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter"; "in chess your should take care of your development before moving your queen". 7. The process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children". 8. Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "development" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Development The process of analysis, design, coding and testing software. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Geography | Term generally applied in synoptic meteorology to the intensification of depressions or anticyclones. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Development (See Evolution .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Medicine | The series of changes by means of which the individual embryo becomes a mature organism. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The preparation of a mining property or area so that an orebody can be analyzed and its tonnage and quality estimated. Development is an intermediate stage between exploration and mining b. To open up a coal seam or orebody as by sinking shafts and driving drifts, as well as installing the requisite equipment c. Work of driving openings to and in a proved orebody to prepare it for mining and transporting the ore d. The amount of ore in a mine developed or exposed on at least three sides e. S. Afr. The work done in a mine to open up the paying ground or roof and, in particular, to form drives or haulages around blocks of ore, which are then included under developed ore reserves f. A geologic term, applied to those progressive changes in fossil genera and species that have followed one another during the deposition of the strata of the Earth. g. In construction of a water well, the removal of fine-grained material adjacent to a drill hole, enabling water to enter the hole more freely. (references) |
Public Administration | Organizational-related learning experiences. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Development has meaning in several contexts:
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
- Biological development of embryos in the context of developmental biology
- Child development or post-natal human development (pediatrics, etc)
- Personal development (New Age stuff)
- Economic development in economics and international relations
- Housing development or Urban development in urban planning
- Technology development in industry, as in Software development
- Corporate development i.e., fund-raising
- Employee development in business and industry
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Development."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Developmental biology is the study of the process by which organisms grow and develop. Originating in embryology, today developmental biology studies the genetic control of cell growth, differentiation and "morphogenesis," which is the process that gives rise to tissuess, organss and anatomy. The related field of evolutionary developmental biology was formed largely in the 1990s and is a synthesis of findings from molecular developmental biology and evolutionary biology which considers the diversity of organismal form in an evolutionary context.Often used model organisms for developmental biology are the round worm Caenorhabditis elegans, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish Brachydanio rerio, the African clawed toed frog Xenopus laevis and the weed arabidopsis Arabidopsis thaliana.
The findings of developmental biology can help to understand (or some day, cure) developmental malfunctions such as chromosomal aberration, for example, down syndrome. An understanding of the specialization of stem cells to specific tissues and organs could lead to the specific cloning of organs for medical purposes.
- See also
- allantois, amnion, blastocyst, blastomere, blastula, blastulation, chorion, chrysalis, cleavage, ectoderm, embryo, embryogenesis, embryogeny, embryology, endoderm, evocation, extra-embryonic membrane, fetus (or foetus), gastrula, gastrulation, germ layer, germ plasm, germ, germination, induction, juvenile, larva, mesoderm, metamorphosis, morphogenesis, morula, neoteny, neural development, nymph, ontogeny, oosperm, ovism, paedogenesis, pangenesis, phylogeny, primordium, pupa, rudiment, teratology, zygote
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Morphogenesis (from the Greek morphê shape and genesis creation) describes the process of cellular differentiation, distribution and growth that takes place during the embryonic development of an organism, which gives rise to tissuess, organss and anatomy. The change from a cluster of nearly identical cellss to structured tissuess, specialized cells and organss is controlled by the genetic "program" and can be modified by environmental factors. The morphogenes (proteins that control morphogenesis) that determine the fate of cells are proteins that interact with DNA. They can either activate or deactivate genes that, in turn, can activate other genes (Fig. 1). The localized expression (production) of a protein results in a protein gradient. Above a threshold of concentration, the protein is active and works as a transcription factor. (A transcription factor regulates the amount of protein that is produced from a gene.)The remainder of the article explains the morphogenesis of the species Drosophila melanogaster (the fruit fly). The development of Drosophila is particularly well studied, and it is typical for insects. Other multicellular organisms use similar mechanisms, although the details of the information transfer between the cells of the developing organism can differ from the one described here.
Figure 1 : Schematic drawing of transcription factor (or morphogene) gradients. The morphogenes (or transcription factors) displayed are the proteins bicoid (bicoid is a maternally transcribed gene that organizes the anterior development in Drosophila) and hunchback (hunchback is the 'partner' of bicoid in anterior/posterior development in Drosophila). These proteins play an important role in determining the anterior part of the body (head and thorax) from the posterior part (abdomen). (DNA/mRNA are striped, proteins are filled, respectively.)
(a) The bicoid mRNA (messenger RNA) is an intermediate copy of a piece of the DNA. It is transported to the ribosomes, where protein biosynthesis takes place) is located on the left side of the embryo. All cells of the embryo have inactive hunchback DNA.
(b) The bicoid mRNA is expressed as bicoid protein, resulting in a protein gradient with the highest concentration of protein on the left side of the embryo.
(c) The hunchback DNA is activated once the amount of bicoid protein passes a certain threshold. This results in a sharp borderline, which divides the part where hunchback is expressed from the part where hunchback is not expressed.In the early stages of morphogenesis in an insect embryo, four types of differentiation can be distinguished:
In the later stages of development, these basic compartments become more and more divided. The same transcription factor can be used several times, having different meanings in the different body parts. Several morphogenes have been studied in Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly. In 1995, the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded for studies concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development to Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Edward B. Lewis and Eric Wieschaus. Their researches identified genetic screens and exemplified the role played in early embryological development by Hox genes. An example is the so-called antennapedia mutation. In Drosophila, antennae and legs are created by the same "program", they only differ in a single transcription factor. If this transcription factor is damaged, the fly grows legs instead of antennae. See images of this "antennapedia" mutant and others, at FlyBase.
- Anterior (head and thorax)
- Posterior (abdomen)
- Dorso-ventral (front- and backside)
- Terminal (special structures at the unsegmented ends of the embryo)
The term morphogenesis can also be used to describe the development of unicellular life forms that do not have an embryonic stage in their life cycle, or to refer to the evolution of a body structure within a taxonomic group. Morphogenetic responses may be induced in organisms by hormones, or by environmental chemicals ranging from substances produced by other organisms to toxic chemicals or radionuclides released as pollutants.
- See also : embryo -- model organism
- Back to : biology -- developmental biology
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Ontogeny (or ontogenesis) describes the origin and the development of an organism from the fertilized egg to its mature form. Ontogeny is studied in developmental biology.The idea that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, i.e. that the development of an organism exactly mirrors the evolutionary development of the species, is discredited today. Nevertheless, many connections between ontogeny and phylogeny can be observed and explained by evolutionary theory.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ontogeny."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DE | English | Development engineering | Computing |
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Synonyms: DevelopmentSynonyms: developing (n), evolution (n), exploitation (n), growing (n), growth (n), maturation (n), ontogenesis (n), ontogeny (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nondevelopment (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Noun: conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution, sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization; transportation; development, developing. |
Effect | Noun: effect, consequence; aftergrowth, aftercome; derivative, derivation; result; resultant, resultance; upshot, issue, denouement; end; development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud. |
Evolution | Noun: evolution, unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion; (inversion). |
Expansion | Noun: expansion; increase; of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion; obesity; (size); hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation. |
Increase | Noun: increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension; dilatation; (expansion); increment, accretion; accession; development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent; exaggeration exacerbation; spread; (dispersion); flood tide; gain, produce, product, profit. |
Production | Bringing forth; Verb:: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture; gestation; (maturation); assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well gentlemen, now that the moment has come to bid you farewell, I congratulate both you, Doctor, and you, Professor, on your brilliant work in the development of the submarine tracking system (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) That maybe darkness is part of their natural development. (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly) The development of man hasn't just suddenly stopped (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors (The Thing From Another World; writing credit: George A. Romero; John A. Russo) The belt was his favorite child development tool (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Embryonic Development of Fish (1961) Development of the English Town (1943) Arrested Development (2003) Film 3: Solutions and People Water Supply and Sanitation in Development (1985) Development in Irrigation (1981) | |
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 | The metastatic colony is the end result of a complicated multistep process. The tumor cells from a primary tumor invade local tissue and gain access to the venous circulation (intravasation). Circulating tumor cells, singly or in clumps, are transported to target organs where they lodge in the capillary bed. Thus arrested, these tumor cells penetrate the endothelial cell lining and the underlining basement membrane to exit the circulation (extravasation). They then grow as a metastatic colony, a development that requires new blood vessels (neovascularization). To complete this multistep process, the tumor cells must overcome the host's defenses. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | An aerial photograph of the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center (FCRDC) taken circa 1985. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Members of the Technical Development Laboratory staff operating a device which measures the energy required to pump a hand-powered spray can. Credit: CDC. |  | The malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum is seen in multiple stages of development. An immature schizont is centrally located. Malarial parasites undergo asexual multiplication in the erythrocytes, i.e. erythrocytic schizogony. Credit: CDC. |
 | Development of the Soviet N1 Rocket. Credit: NASA. |  | Citing "teamwork and dedication in the development of the world's largest star catalog to be ... Credit: NASA. |
 | Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel Famous astronomer - worked with Coast Survey on retainer Primarily involved with development of telegraphic determination of longitude. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | View of the Wye Island Natural Resources Area from the Wye River. Preserved from development, most of the island is still in agricultural use. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Fishing heritage used to add atmosphere to a development. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | TED's for sale. Although early in their development use of TED's were resisted, they are now a routine part of any shrimp trawl vessel. TEDS are shown for sale in the window of this Biloxi marine outfitter. Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Public notice for development" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "A man standing and looking at a public notice for development application." | "Circuit development" by Julia Eisenberg Commentary: "Circuit development (ARCADEmini)." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Klemin | In the development of no other branch of engineering has scientific work been so intensive or so rapid as in aeronautics. |
Ashley Montagu | By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being. |
Confucius | The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. |
Edgar Allan Poe | Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. |
Jesse Bennett | The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. |
Samuel Butler | Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. |
Theodore Roosevelt | Conservation means development as much as it does protection. |
William Gilmore Simms | The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. |
Wisdom and The Chinese | Adversity is necessary to the development of man's virtue. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The proletariat goes through various stages of development. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The character of the mandate must differ according to the stage of the development of the people, the geographical situation of the territory, its economic conditions, and other similar circumstances. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | We must consider public education in the light of its full development and its present place in American life throughout [347 U.S. 483, 493] the Nation. (reference) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | The privilege against self-incrimination, which has had a long and expansive historical development, is the essential mainstay of our adversary system, and guarantees to the individual the "right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will," during a period of custodial interrogation as well as in the courts or during the course of other official investigations. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cloisters, although beneficial in the first training of modern civilisation, cramped its growth, and are injurious to its development. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Thus, even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | New Tests Under Development. (references) | |
Monitor growth and development. (references) | ||
Curriculum development is urgent. (references) | ||
Business | Future development is planned, especially for schools. (references) | |
Bulgaria therefore has an enormous development potential. (references) | ||
It includes funding some research and development studies. (references) | ||
Children | Malaysia | An office in the Ministry of National Unity and Social Development oversees children's issues. (references) |
Vanuatu | Members of the extended family, particularly paternal uncles, play an active role in a child's development. (references) | |
Seychelles | The Division of Social Affairs in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Manpower Development works to protect children's rights. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Niger | Presidential activities and conferences dealing with development issues always are reported. (references) |
Kuwait | The diwaniya system contributes to the development of political consensus and official decisionmaking. (references) | |
Honduras | Systemic national problems, such as corruption and endemic conflicts of interest, also limit the development of the news media. (references) | |
Discrimination | Tunisia | The Constitution devotes 54 percent of the budget to social and development goals. (references) |
Macedonia | This principle will be applied in particular with respect to employment in public administration and public enterprises, and access to public financing for business development." However, societal discrimination against ethnic minorities persisted, and the protection of women's rights remained a problem. (references) | |
Economic History | Russia | Trade and Development Agency (TDA). (references) |
Human Rights | Vietnam | Low salaries hinder the development of a trained judiciary. (references) |
Mongolia | A smaller operation functions under the U.N. Development Program (UNDP). (references) | |
Croatia | These factors continued to impede development of local police capability. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Canada | Professional development and fiscal accountability projects further support indigenous self-governance. (references) |
Indonesia | When indigenous people clash with those promoting private sector development projects, the developers almost always prevail. (references) | |
Malaysia | NGO's help to create maps that can then be used in court to protect NCR land from logging, development, and palm oil cultivation. (references) | |
Minorities | Burma | Economic development among minorities continues to lag, leaving many persons living below subsistence levels. (references) |
Bulgaria | For the first time, the MRF has representation on boards that will distribute European Union accession funds for development. (references) | |
Niger | It supported the 1995 peace accord calling for special development efforts in the north where the Tuareg population is dominant. (references) | |
Political Economy | TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | Its major lender is the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). (references) |
BELGIUM | Belgium is also a significant donor of development assistance. (references) | |
PANAMA | Most EPZ's remain in the early stages of development, with only a few tenants. (references) | |
Political Rights | Liberia | Of the 20 cabinet positions, 4 are held by women, including the Minister for Gender and Development, a position created in April. (references) |
Albania | In the Government, one woman serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs and another served as the Minister of Economic Trade and Development. (references) | |
Hong Kong | Legislators from the democratic parties and human rights activists protested the abolition of the councils, arguing that they were important to the development of party and democratic political leaders. (references) | |
Trade | South Africa | United Nations Development Program (UNDP). (references) |
Brazil | Given, this development, the CET is currently full of exceptions. (references) | |
Kenya | Private export financing in Kenya is a relatively new development. (references) | |
Travel | Indonesia | Patience and the development of personal relations is the key. (references) |
Ghana | Land for development may be obtained from the state, traditional (stool/family) or individual owners. (references) | |
Ireland | It is not sufficient to merely label a product in conformity to national requirements for the development of the full market potential. (references) | |
Women | Sao Tome and Principe | According to a 1997 U.N. Development Program study, 75 percent of adults are literate. (references) |
Indonesia | The Manpower Development and Protection Bill includes specific protections for female workers. (references) | |
Belize | The Belize Organization for Women and Development, an NGO, advises women on their rights and provides counseling. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Yugoslavia | Collective bargaining remained at a rudimentary level of development. (references) |
Brunei | While unions are legal and easy to register, conditions are not conducive to the development of trade unions. (references) | |
Nigeria | An EPZ remains under development in Calabar, Cross River State, and a second EPZ is planned for Port Harcourt, Rivers State. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Al Sharpton | The one thing I would do is make sure that household heads can make a decent living. We must deal with training and job development. Many people must have the underpinnings to be able to feed a family to keep a family together. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Theodore Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half century are felt in every fiber of our social and political being. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Although education is primarily a responsibility of the States and local communities, and rightly so, yet the Nation as a whole is vitally concerned in its development everywhere to the highest standards and to complete universality. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | What we envisage is a program of development based on the concepts of democratic fair-dealing. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | But free world development will still be an uphill struggle. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Africa stands at an earlier stage of development than Latin America. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Regional cooperation for development is gaining from Central America to the Andes, and throughout the Caribbean. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Despite budget restraints, we will seek record funding for research and development. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | It's there for research and development, R and D, a record high. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | That's the idea behind the Individual Development Accounts, the IDAs. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Eleven years ago, as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, to cease all development of such weapons, and to stop all support for terrorist groups. |
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| "Development" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.59% of the time. "Development" is used about 32,375 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.59% | 32,242 | 261 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.41% | 133 | 27,614 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32,375 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "development": A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge Based Systems ♦ A rule based approach to information systems development ♦ African Development Bank ♦ Agency for International Development ♦ agricultural development ♦ An advanced support environment for method driven development and evolution of packaged software ♦ armament development ♦ arrested development ♦ asian development bank ♦ base development ♦ Basic ITT&B Infrastructure for Rural Development ♦ Bone Development ♦ business development loan ♦ Cadkey advance development language ♦ Cell development ♦ Child Development ♦ Child Survival and Development Revolution ♦ chromogenic development ♦ city development ♦ colour development ♦ colour forming development ♦ component based development ♦ Consensus Development Conference [Publication Type] ♦ Consensus Development Conferences ♦ department of Housing and Urban Development ♦ Development and integration of accurate operations in numerical data processing ♦ development area ♦ Development Assistance Committee ♦ development bank ♦ development environment ♦ Development of a multimedia information transaction and dissemination tool ♦ development of the fetus ♦ development plan ♦ Development theory ♦ development well ♦ economic development ♦ Egg development ♦ endangering the development of minors ♦ equal stage of development ♦ even development ♦ Fetal Development ♦ Growth and Embryonic Development ♦ housing and Urban Development ♦ housing development ♦ Human Development ♦ IIP Consciousness Development Program ♦ industrial development ♦ Integrated formal approach to industrial software development ♦ interactive development environment ♦ interactive Development Environments ♦ International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ♦ international Development Association ♦ iso Development Environment ♦ Java 2 Software Development Kit ♦ Java Development Kit ♦ Java Servlet Development Kit ♦ Kofutu System of Spiritual Healing and Development ♦ land development ♦ Language Development ♦ Language Development Companies ♦ Language Development Disorders ♦ Library Collection Development ♦ lotus Development Corporation ♦ Manoel Island Development Investments ♦ Maxillofacial Development ♦ ministry of development and housing ♦ Multicental development ♦ Multicentral development ♦ multiple perspective software development ♦ Official Development Assistance ♦ organisation development ♦ organizational development manager ♦ pedestrian oriented development ♦ Personality Development ♦ Pleuk grammar development system ♦ possibility for development ♦ product development ♦ Program Development ♦ Program development by specification and transformation ♦ program development time ♦ progressive development ♦ psychomotor development ♦ Psychosexual Development ♦ rapid Application Development ♦ research and development ♦ research and development in advanced communications technologies in Europe ♦ research and development measure ♦ retrograde development ♦ ribbon development ♦ ripe for development ♦ secretary of Housing and Urban Development ♦ serial development ♦ social Development Commission ♦ software development library ♦ software development life cycle ♦ Software development using concurrently executable modules ♦ South East Enterprise Development ♦ special development area ♦ Staff Development ♦ stage of development ♦ State Health Planning and Development Agencies. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "development": development-aid, development-area, development-control, development-mad, development--one, development-oriented, Development-trans. | |
Ending with "development": area-development, co-development, ego-development, non-development, over-development, re-development, self-development, staff-development, superego-development, under-development. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "development"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | ontwikkeling (evolution), evolusie (evolution). (various references) | |
Albanian | zhvillim (elaboration, evolution, growth, make, making, nurse, occurrence, operation, progress, prosecution, treatment), rritje (accretion, advance, augmentation, boost, breeding, climb, cultivation, evolution, expansion, extension, gain, germination, growth, increase, increment, intensification, nurture, progress, raise, upgrowth), rrethanë (case, circumstance, consideration, factor, occasion), përpunim (elaboration, formation, manipulation, manufacture, operation, processing, recovery, refinement, rehash, treatment), përmirësim (amelioration, amendment, betterment, elevation, enhancement, improvement, melioration, pickup, progress, rally, reclamation, refinement, reform, reformation, rise, upswing, upturn), përfundim (afterpiece, closing, closure, completion, conclusion, consequence, consummation, denouement, derivation, eduction, effect, end product, event, expiration, finality, finding, finish, fulfillment, fulfilment, harvest, issue, job, lapse, last, offshoot, offspring, outcome, output, perfecting, performance, result, resume, rider, total, train, upshot, windup), ngjarje (circumstance, episode, event, experience, happening, incident, occurrence), ndërmarrje (enterprise, establishment, project, undertaking, venture, work), larje (bathe, bathing, cleansing, cleanup, lavement, scour, wash, washing), krijim (composition, creation, establishment, foundation, genesis, institution, making, progeniture), grup i ndërtesave të reja, evolucion (evolution, evolving). (various references) | |
Arabic | حَرَكَة (activity, movement, traffic), نمو (accretion, evolution, expansion, gathering, growth, increase, outgrowth, prosperity, sprouting, upgrowth), نشوء (efflorescence, emergence, evolution, germination, upgrowth), تنمية, تقدم (advance, advanced, advancement, advantage, antecedence, ascent, break through, career, careerist, come on, crowd, descend, evolution, forge ahead, forward, gain ground, gain one's destination, get along, get forward, get on, get up, go ahead, go up, going, head, headway, improvement, keep step, lead, make up on, march, move along, move in, onward, precede, priority, proceed, procession, progress, progression, promotion, propulsion, pull ahead, rise, seniority, shape, shoot ahead, speed, stem, step, superiority, take steps, upturn, way, work up to), تحميض (acidification, processing, souring), تطوير (expansion), تطور (blossom, break through, breakthrough, evolution, growth, shape, work out), التطور و التنمية, إنماء, إستثمار (exploitation, investment, operation, placement, placing), رقى تقدم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | усъвършенствуване (improvement, perfection, rationalization, refinement), разрастване, разработка (amplification, elaboration, operation, treatment), разкриване (detection, disclosure, divulgation, elicitation, revelation), развитие (course, evolution, germination, growth, making, movement, process, progress, run, upgrowth), еволюция (derivation, evolution), благоустрояване (rehabilitation), проявяване (exercise, manifestation), предприятие (outfit, proposition, show), по-сложен стадий, получаване на нови материали, подготвителни работи. (various references) | |
Chinese | 發育 (growth), 發展 (growth, to develop, to expand, to grow), 動態 (dynamic state, movement, moving, trend), 发展 (Developmental). (various references) | |
Czech | zástavba, vývoj (evolution, progression), vývin, rozvoj (advancement, expansion, growth), rozmach (expansion, sweep, swing, upswing, upturn). (various references) | |
Danish | udvikling (evolution). (various references) | |
Dutch | ontwikkeling (accession, accretion, evolution, growth, instruction, output), evolutie (evolution). (various references) | |
Esperanto | evoluo (evolution), evoluado (evolution). (various references) | |
Faeroese | menning (evolution), gongd (evolution). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشرفت (Accession, Advance, Beat, Growth, Headway, Improvement, Lift, Progress, Progression, Promotion, Rise), نمو, توسعه (Expansion, Extension, Increment, Outspread), ترقی (Ascent, Boost, Growth, Increase, Increment, Jump, Lift, Pickup, Procession, Progress, Promotion, Rise), بسط (Expansion, Extension, Outspread). (various references) | |
Finnish | rakentaminen (building), lajinkehitys (evolution), kehitys (evolution, progress), kehittyneisyys (advanced state), kehittyminen, evoluutio (evolution). (various references) | |
French | developpement, développement (developing), évolution (psychological detachment). (various references) | |
German | Entwicklung (construction, deployment, developing, display, evaluation, evolution, expansion, formation, generation, germination, growth, movement, processing, production, progression, trend), werdegang (career), entfaltung (display, evolvement, exposition, opening, unfolding). (various references) | |
Greek | εξέλιξη (evolution, progress, progression), ανάπτυξη (deployment, evolvent, growth). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תרבות (civilization, culture, education, enlightenment), פתוח (developing film, elaboration, expansion, open, receptive), התפתחות (evolution), התגלגלות (rolling, unfolding), השתלשלות (concatenation, evolution), גדול (augmentation, big, breed, breeding, grand, great, growth, high, increment, large, mighty, raising, step up, upbringing, whopping). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kifejtés (exposition, phrasing, shelling), kifejlődés (evolution, growth), kidolgozás (elaboration, finishing, getting up, get-up, shaping, working out, workmanship), kialakulás (conception, conformation, emergence, evolution, formation), fejlesztés (amelioration, expansion), fejlemény (growth, sequel), fejlõdés (advancement, evolution, progression), fejlődés (advance, advancement, growth), fénykép elõhívása, előhívás (developing). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengembangan (developing of), pembangunan (construction, erection, foundation), pembabaran (statement), eksploitasi (exploitation, uperation, working). (various references) | |
Italian | evoluzione (evolution, growth), sviluppo (accretion, expansion, growth, making, process, progress). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 啓発 (edification, enlightenment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | デベロップメント , なりゆき (course of events, outcome, progress, result), しんぽ (new futures on the first trading session of the month, progress), しんてん (confidential, expansion, extension, progress), うごき (activity, change, movement, trend), せいいく (breeding, growth, raising), かいはつ (exploitation), ようせい (application, claim, demand, elf, fairy, larva, larvae, positivity, premature death, request, sprite, training), けいはつ (edification, enlightenment), はついく (growth), はったつ (ability in any line, convenient transportation, growth, running in all directions), はっしょくげんぞう (coupling), はってん (growth), えんかく (distant, history, isolated, remote). (various references) | |
Korean | 발달. (various references) | |
Manx | troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), lhiasaghey seyrey, imman (develop, drive, drove, impinge), crouwghey, cheet gy kione (draw on, end, evolve, finishing), bishaghey (accession, accession of funds, accrue, develop, expand, expansion, growth, increase, multiplication, multiply, prosper, thrive, wax, wax as moon), anchoodaghey (develop, disclose, disclosure, expose, exposure). (various references) | |
Norwegian | utvikling (generation), fremkalling. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evelopmentday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desenvolvimento (deployment, germination, growing, growth, increment, outgrowth, process, progress, promotion, stature, upgrowth), evolução (evolution, maneuver, manoeuvre). (various references) | |
Romanian | dezvoltare (amplification, enlargement, evolution, germination, growth, involution, process, progress, promotion, rise, upsurge), developare, desfãşurare (course, display, evolution, fireworks, March, operation, passage, process, progress, spread, unfolding), sporire (accession, accretion, accrual, accumulation, enhancement, enlargement, increase), progres (advance, advancement, career, furtherance, growth, headway, March, progress, rise), prezentare (adduction, description, exhibit, exhibition, introduction, present, presentation, presentment), perfecţionare (finish, improvement, perfecting, perfection), mãrire (accretion, aggrandizement, amplification, augmentation, authority, enlargement, gain, glory, grandeur, increase, magnification, rise, splendor, splendour, state, sway), extindere (amplification, distension, expansion, extension, extent, prevalence, protraction, spread), exploatare (exploitation, grinding, running, service, working), evoluţie (evolution, passage, process, progress), evenimente (doings), creştere (accretion, accrual, addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, education, enlargement, farming, fosterage, gain, growing, growth, heft, husbandry, increase, increment, jump, nurse, nurture, propagation, rise, rising, upbringing, upsurge), şantier (yard). (various references) | |
Russian | стройка (стр., project), строительство (building, construction, construction of), совершенствование (elaboration, enhancement, perfecting, perfection), рост (growth, height, increase, rise, stature, upgrowth), разработка (design, dev, engineering, mining), развертывание (deployment, discovery, explication), развитие (cultivation, elaboration, evolution, germination, growth), вывод (conclusion, corollary, deduction, derivation, eduction, illation, inference, lead-out, recapitulation, rider), проявление (display, manifestation). (various references) | |
Scottish | foileadh (slow development). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | događaj (adventure, event, happening, incidence, occurrence), razvoj (consecution, deployment, evolvent, growth, making, uprising), razvitak, kretanje (coasting, locomotion, marching, motion, trend). (various references) | |
Spanish | desarrollo (developing, envelopment, expansion, growth, investigation, rise, success), evolucion (evolution, growth), ampliación (aggrandizement, blowup, enlargement, extension, increase). (various references) | |
Swedish | utveckling (cultivation, evolution, fosterage, growth, incubation, progress), utbyggnad (extension). (various references) | |
Thai | การเจริญเติบโต. (various references) | |
Turkish | tab etme, son durum (final situation, finality), site (buildings, complex), kalkınma (reconstruction), geliştirme (build up, growth, improving, progress, refinement), geliştirilmiş ürün, gelişme (advance, advancement, amelioration, budding, expansion, flourish, formative, growing, growth, headway, improvement, inflorescence, pickup, progress, strides), büyüme (accretion, accrual, augmentation, enlargement, expansion, growing, growth, increase, juvenescence). (various references) | |
Turkmen | цsью (growth). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розвиток (amplification, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, growth, progress), результат (conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, eduction, effect, end, issue, offspring, omnium, outcome, outgrowth, output, produce, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, result, subsequence, termination, upshot), виклад (presentation, presentment, recitation, rendering, showing, statement), зростання (access, accession, accretion, concrescence, expansion, growing, increase, upgrowth, upturn, vegetation), еволюція (evolution). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vùng có thể bị nạn thất nghiệp nghiêm trọng, sự trình bày (designing, statement), sự mở rộng (continuation, enlargement, expansion, magnification, splay), sự mở mang (cultivation, culture), sự khuếch trương, sự bày tỏ (delivery, profession, statement, voice), luận điểm. (various references) | |
Welsh | datblygiad (evolution). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incrementa, incrementum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "development": developmental, developmentally, developments. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "development": antidevelopment, hyperdevelopment, nondevelopment, overdevelopment, predevelopment, redevelopment, subdevelopment, underdevelopment. (additional references) | |
Words containing "development": hyperdevelopments, nondevelopments, overdevelopments, predevelopments, redevelopments, subdevelopments, underdevelopments. (additional references) | |
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"Development" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delelopment, delevopment, deveiopment, developmen, deveolpment, devlopment, evelopment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "development" (pronounced dive"lupmunt) |
| 11 | d i v e" l u p m u n t | redevelopment. |
| 9 | -v e" l u p m u n t | underdevelopment. |
| 5 | -p m u n t | encampment, entrapment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, shipment. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, impairment, impeachment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, detriment, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrenchment, environment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-l-m-n-o-p-t-v" | |
-2 letters: elopement, enveloped. | |
-3 letters: develope, envelope. | |
-4 letters: demeton, deplete, develop, devotee, element, envelop, pentode, telemen, templed, venomed. | |
-5 letters: deepen, delete, dement, demote, denote, depone, devote, dolmen, eleven, elevon, eloped, emoted, evened, lepton, leveed, loment, melted, melton, metope, molted, molten, needle, omelet, omened, opened, peeled, peened, peeved, pelmet, pelted, poteen, potmen, teemed, telome, temped, temple, toneme. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-l-m-n-o-p-t-v" | |
+1 letter: developments. | |
+2 letters: developmental, redevelopment. | |
+3 letters: nondevelopment, predevelopment, redevelopments, subdevelopment. | |
+4 letters: antidevelopment, developmentally, nondevelopments, overdevelopment, predevelopments, subdevelopments. | |
+5 letters: hyperdevelopment, overdevelopments, underdevelopment. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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