Development

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated.

(noun.) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; 'recent developments in Iraq'; 'what a revolting development!'.

(noun.) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; 'such land is practical for small park developments'.

(noun.) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; 'the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) 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'.

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• So old an art, and so great and continuous a need for its products necessarily must have resulted in much development and progress. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• You will let me know any fresh development, Miss Smith. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• We can, however, see in a general manner that various causes might have interfered with the development of a long neck or proboscis. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• We have been at some pains in this history to make plain the development of these differences. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• We have applied this test to three general aims: Development according to nature, social efficiency, and culture or personal mental enrichment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• There is no apparent relation between effects so dissimilar; yet the steps of progress can be distinctly traced, from the attraction of a feather to the development of the electric telegraph. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• But every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We have given an epitome of the development of the submarine vessel up to the opening of the twentieth century. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There is an activity in process; one is taken up with the development of a theme. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He did not believe in spontaneous alterations, but found that every marked change in the quality of beer coincides with the development of micro-organism s. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Even in 1847 few of these things had lost their novelty, most of them were in the earlier stages of development. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Don't the botanists put it highest in the line of development? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• There is a conception of education which professes to be based upon the idea of development. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• As allied branches of the photographic art, photo-engraving, photo-lithographing, and half-tone engraving are important developments of the Nineteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• We locked every door on the inside and awaited developments. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The Holly converter, covered by United States patents No. 86,303, and No. 86,304, January 26, 1869, represented one of the most important American developments of the Bessemer converter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is interesting to note that Edison became greatly interested in the later developments by Marconi, and is an admiring friend and adviser of that well-known inventor. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It would not have been necessary for him to have been embalmed that length of time to have witnessed some great developments of his favorite science. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Typewriters for short hand characters, and for foreign languages, and for printing on record and blank books, are also among the modern developments of this art. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He is describing, with a certain subdued enthusiasm, the probable technical developments of military method in the next war. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I expect developments, Watson. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The letter, then, is from a certain foreign potentate who has been ruffled by some recent Colonial developments of this country. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The professor had been stricken dumb with surprise by the rapid developments of the past few minutes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• At various points in the social system there were probably developments of exclusiveness, an actual barring out of interlopers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• More recent developments in this art are shown in patents to Wetherill, No. 555,792, March 3, 1896, and Payne, No. 641,148, January 9, 1900. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Have there been any fresh developments? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The commercial use of electric heating is one of the more recent electrical developments. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• And there were considerable developments of seamanship and shipbuilding in progress. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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