Developing
[dɪ'veləpɪŋ] or [dɪ'vɛləpɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Develop
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Examples
- Daylight developing soon followed, and the dark room, as far as the kodaker was concerned, took its proper place as a relic of the dark ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The repeating rifle now seemed an interesting possibility and large sums were spent in developing a weapon of this type. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And so we find them developing fibre and support, and the beginning of _woody fibre_ in them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And furthermore, that in practically every case the actual patented invention followed from one to a dozen or more gradually developing forms of the same idea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The mere fact that Edison spent years of his life in developing that process counted for nothing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Our net conclusion is that life is development, and that developing, growing, is life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Since that episode, which will probably be appreciated by most automobilists, Edison has taken up the electric automobile, and is now using it as well as developing it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Josiah Franklin's judicious criticism led Benjamin to undertake the well- known plan of developing his literary style. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Their isolation, and consequently their purely arbitrary going together, is canceled; a unified developing situation takes its place. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Henry in America was, contemporaneously with Faraday, developing electricity by means of magnetic induction. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He is developing his idea gradually in a series of positions or situations. Plato. The Republic.
- And it had a rapidly developing organization of deacons, priests, and bishops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Everyone was developing property. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These lectures met with success, and he used the money made by them in developing his pistol, which was in a shape to patent by 1835. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The civilization in which we live to-day is simply carrying on and still further developing and working out and rearranging these relationships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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