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Definitions: Evolve |
EvolveVerb1. Work out; as of a theory or an idea; "We have developed a new theory of evolution". 2. Undergo an evolution; "Modern man evolved a long time ago". 3. Come up with; "We evolved an interesting idea"; "We worked up an ad for our client". 4. Acquire or build up traits or characteristics: "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "evolve" was first used: 1641. (references) |
Synonyms: EvolveSynonyms: develop (v), work out (v), work up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Continuance in action | Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change. |
Discovery | Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter. |
Evolution | Verb: evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine, unravel; untangle, disentangle; develop. |
Extraction | Remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate; (eject); eviscerate. |
Production | Flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Evolve |
| English words defined with "evolve": derive, develop ♦ educe, Evolved, Evolving ♦ ritualise, ritualize ♦ To develop a curved surface on a plane. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "evolve": directory service ♦ Helicity ♦ island model of population genetics ♦ Lymphoma, Lymphoblastic ♦ to be off track ♦ Zawinski's Law. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "evolve": Evolute. (references) |
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Screenplays | And people can evolve together, don't you think? (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) It has enabled us to evolve from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. (X2; writing credit: Zak Penn; David Hayter) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | The symptoms associated with cellulitis can evolve and worsen due to systemic bacterial migration via the bloodstream, and include fever, malaise, and chills.Credit: CDC. | |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. |
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Health | These research tools will evolve as new knowledge is gained. (references) | |
Other research shows that the information and problem-solving needs of caregivers evolve over time as the disease progresses and caregiving issues shift. (references) | ||
The condition of these patients may rapidly evolve into dengue shock syndrome (DSS), which, if not immediately corrected, can lead to profound shock and death. (references) | ||
Business | The demand for imported wood fiber, pulp, and chips will also evolve in the next 4-6 years. (references) | |
Internet distribution will evolve, but there are legal obstacles and psychological barriers to be faced. (references) | ||
A secondary stock market gradually began to evolve in 1986, initially via the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. (references) | ||
Economic History | Mauritius | The education system has largely failed to evolve in line with the changing socio-economic environment. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | As more technologically advanced and newly developed features are included in automobiles, market demand for car spare parts will also evolve. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | However, with the general decline in concessionary funding programs, as well as increased trade in other areas, the U.S. export mix continues to evolve. (references) | |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | This move, which comes on the heels of a government decision to begin enforcement of its new Copyright Law, will help lower the cost of legitimate videos and encourage local video retailers to evolve away from pirated products. (references) |
THE BAHAMAS | Since video retailers complained that it is too expensive to import original videotapes, the government reduced the import duty for imported video and audio tapes and discs to encourage them to evolve away from pirated products. (references) | |
Trade | Ireland | As the standards and certification requirements evolve, it is expected that qualified U.S. testing laboratories will be able to fully certify that products conform to EU requirements. (references) |
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| "Evolve" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.61% of the time. "Evolve" is used about 428 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 80.61% | 345 | 15,401 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.42% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.97% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 428 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Evolve Software, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
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Ending with "evolve": re-evolve. | |
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| 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 "evolve"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | evoluoj, zhvilloj (develop, drive, elaborate, expand, grow, hold, increase, navigate, prosecute, wage), shtjelloj (develop, discuss, explain, explicate, labor, labour, treat), përpunoj (cast, design, develop, elaborate, mill, process, recondition, refine, rehash, treat, work out), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, emit, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), çliroj (affranchise, cast off, deliver, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, disenthrall, emancipate, extricate, heal, liberate, lighten, ransom, release, relieve, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, unbend, unfetter, unpeg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تطور تدريجيا, طور (age, develop, improve, incubate, phase, promote, stage), إستنبط (contrive, devise, educe, elicit, formulate, frame, work out), إستخرج (educe, elicit, excavate, extract, lever, mine, quarry, read out, shake), أنشأ (construct, cradle, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), أطلق (cast, cast off, divorce, draw, eject, emanate, enlarge, erupt, fire, generalize, give off, liberate, loose, open, project, relax, release, shoot, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock, utter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разгъвам (scan, shake out, unfold, unfurl, unroll), развивам (cultivate, develop, do, educate, make, pay out, push, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, ungird, unreel, unroll, unswathe, unwind, unwrap, wind off, work up), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), произхождам (accrue, come from, derive, descend, emanate, issue, spring, stem, take off), измислям (coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, devise, dream up, excogitate, fabricate, fake, feign, figure out, frame up, incubate, invent, manufacture, think up, trump, weave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "变 (Evolution, Evolutionary, Evolved, Evolving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyvinout se, vyvíjet se (develop, shape), vypracovat (develop, devise, formulate, frame, hammer out, hammer smth. into shape, think out, work, work out, work up, write out), rozvinout (array, deploy, develop, fill out, set sail, spread, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, unroll), rozvíjet se (form). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udvikle (develop, escalate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zich ontwikkelen (develop), evolueren (develop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | evolui (develop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | mennast (develop), búnast (develop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نموکردن , گشادن (Open, Solve), استنتاج کردن (Conclude, Derive, Induce, Infer, Subsume), دراوردن (Erupt, Gouge, Render, Wisp), بیرون دادن (Emission, Emit, Exhale, Ooze, Vent), بازکردن (Disclose, Disengage, Disentangle, Solve, Splay, Unbend, Unbrace, Undo, Unfasten, Unfix, Unfold, Unhinge, Unhitch, Unlock, Unpack, Untie, Untwist, Unwreathe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kehittyä (develop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | évoluer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sich entwickeln (be generated, be produced, bud, develop, grow, pan out, progress, shape, thrive, to emerge, turn out, unfold, unwind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκτυλίσσομαι, αναπτύσσω (build up, deploy, develop, explicate, expound, to explode, unfold, unroll, work up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שתלשל (hang, let oneself down, trace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kialakít (to configure, to form, to get into shape, to hew, to mould, to shape, to shape up, to work up), fejlõdik (flourish, go ahead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memperkembangkan, berevolusi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | svilupparsi (burgeon, develop, expand, grow, set in), sviluppare (cause, develop, develpo, emit, expand, generate, strengthen, to develop, to device, unwind, work out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 진"하십시" (Extinguish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gientyn (beget, begetting, breeding, conceive, conceiving, conception, engender, father, form, generate, generation, procreate, produce, production, progeniture), cur ry-cheilley (assemblage, assemble, associate, clump, combine, compile, connect, connotation, consolidate, consolidation, construct, incorporate, keep together, reconcile, relate, sum, teamwork), cheet gy kione (development, draw on, end, finishing), aase (apophysis, culture, develop, forwardness, grow, growth, tumour, wax), aafilley (evolution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evolveay evolver, evolucionar (operate). (various references) evolua (develop, grow, manoeuvre), dezvolta (advance, amplify, cultivate, develop, enhance, expand, form, grow, Mold, mould, promote, propagate, work up). (various references) развиваться (be in progress, develop, evolved, maturate, progresses, thrive, thriven, throve). (various references) evoluirati, razviti (build up, deploy, develop, mature, pioneer, uncase, unfurl). (various references) evolucionar (develop), tomar de (hough). (various references) utveckla (develop, elaborate, expand, explicate, expound, form, Foster, incubate, procure, unfold). (various references) ค่อยๆ พั'นา. (various references) evrim geçirmek, yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), geliştirmek (advance, ameliorate, better, boom, build up, cultivate, develop, enlarge, improve, launch out, open up, reclaim, soup up, work up), gelişmek (advance, ameliorate, blossom, blossom out, boom, branch out, develop, expand, flourish, flower, go ahead, grow, grow up, improve, make headway, progress, refine, shape, shape up, thrive, unfold), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references) розвиватися (advance, maturate, progress, unwind), розвивати (amplify, cultivate, elaborate, explicate, nurse), виявляти (bespeak, demonstrate, detect, disclose, discover, display, educe, elicit, evince, exert, find, show, uncover, vent), виділяти (accent, accentuate, apportion, appropriate, discriminate, excrete, exempt, exude, give off, ooze, point out, secrete, signalize, single out, singularize, tab, throw off), еволюціонувати. (various references) datblygu (develop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | evolvere. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "evolve": evolved, evolvement, evolvements, evolver, evolvers, evolves. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "evolve": coevolve, devolve, revolve. (additional references) | |
Words containing "evolve": coevolved, coevolves, devolved, devolves, revolved, revolver, revolvers, revolves, unevolved. (additional references) | |
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"Evolve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: envolve, evale, Evalie, evol, evole, evolv, ivolve, volve. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "evolve" (pronounced ivÄ"lv or ēvÄ"lv) |
| 5 | i v Ä" l v | devolve. |
| 4 | -v Ä" l v | involve, revolve. |
| 3 | -Ä" l v | absolve, dissolve, resolve, solve. |
| 5 | ē v Ä" l v | revolve. |
| 4 | -v Ä" l v | devolve, involve. |
| 3 | -Ä" l v | absolve, dissolve, resolve, solve. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-o-v-v" | |
-2 letters: levo, love, vole. | |
-3 letters: eel, eve, lee, lev, ole, vee, voe. | |
-4 letters: el, lo, oe. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-o-v-v" | |
+1 letter: devolve, evolved, evolver, evolves, revolve. | |
+2 letters: coevolve, devolved, devolves, evolvers, lovevine, overlive, overlove, revolved, revolver, revolves. | |
+3 letters: coevolved, coevolves, evolvable, lovevines, overlived, overlives, overloved, overloves, overvalue, revolvers, unevolved. | |
+4 letters: evolvement, overvalued, overvalues, revolvable. | |
+5 letters: evocatively, evolvements, involvement, overdevelop, overviolent, overvoltage. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 76 6F 6C 76 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110110 01101111 01101100 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E v o l v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0076 006F 006C 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398881788871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Company Usage 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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