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DEVELOP, v.t.

1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice.

The General began to develop the plan of his operations.

These serve to develop its tenets.

2. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot.


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DEVELOP, v.t.

1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice.

The General began to develop the plan of his operations.

These serve to develop its tenets.

2. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot.

DE-VEL'OP, v.t. [Fr. developper; It. sviluppare, to unfold, to display; viluppo, a packet or bundle, intricacy.]

  1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice. The general began to develop the plan of his operations. These serve to develop its tenets. – Milner.
  2. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot.

De*vel"op
  1. To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

    These serve to develop its tenets. Milner.

    The 20th was spent in strengthening our position and developing the line of the enemy. The Century.

  2. To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.

    Nor poets enough to understand
    That life develops from within.     Mrs. Browning.

  3. To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

    The sound developed itself into a real compound. J. Peile.

    All insects . . . acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed. Owen.

  4. To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.
  5. To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

    We must develop our own resources to the utmost. Jowett (Thucyd).

  6. To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
  7. To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.

    To develop a curved surface on a plane (Geom.), to produce on the plane an equivalent surface, as if by rolling the curved surface so that all parts shall successively touch the plane.

    Syn. -- To uncover; unfold; evolve; promote; project; lay open; disclose; exhibit; unravel; disentangle.

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Develop

DEVELOP, verb transitive

1. To uncover; to unfold; to lay open; to disclose or make known something concealed or withheld from notice.

The General began to develop the plan of his operations.

These serve to develop its tenets.

2. To unravel; to unfold what is intricate; as, to develop a plot.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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space

SPACE, n. [L. spatium, space; spatior, to wander. This word is probably formed on the root of pateo.]

1. Room; extension. Space in the abstract, is mere extension. Pure space is capable neither of resistance nor motion.

2. Any quantity of extension. In relation to bodies, space is the interval between any two or more object' as the space between two stars or two hills The quantity of space or extent between bodies, constitutes their distance form each other.

3. The distance or interval between lines; as in books. The space in music are named as well as the lines.

4. Quantity of time; also, the interval between two points of time. Nine times the space that measures day and God may defer his judgment for a time, and give a people a longer space for repentance.

5. A short time; a while. To stay your deadly strife a space. [This sense is nearly obsolete.]

SPACE, v.i. To rove. [Not in use.]

SPACE, v.t. Among printers, to make space or wider intervals between lines.

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