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# develop

«develop» in Mova's school dictionary: **to grow and change over time into something bigger…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (develop, develops, developed, developing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To develop means to grow and change over time into something bigger, stronger or more complete. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#m1)

2) To develop something is to make it, plan it or improve it (develop a new game, develop your skills). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#m2)

3) To develop an illness or a problem is to start to have it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#m3)

4) To develop photos from an old-style camera film means to make the pictures appear using chemicals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, living things develop: a tadpole develops into a frog, a baby develops into a child. In school you develop your reading, writing and maths skills; in design and technology you develop ideas into products. In geography, a town or country develops as it grows. Phrases: develop into, develop skills, develop an idea, develop a cold.

### examples

- A caterpillar develops into a butterfly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x1)
- Practice helps you develop your skills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x2)
- The scientists developed a new medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x3)
- She developed a cough after the swim. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x4)
- The story develops slowly and then gets exciting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x5)
- The village developed into a busy town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x6)
- Exercise helps children's muscles develop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x7)
- Let's develop our plan before we start building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x8)
- He would appear to represent that poetical inspiration, which tends to develop man's higher nature, and causes the mind to soar heavenwards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: developed, developing. Spelling trap: no «e» at the end: develop, not «develope»; and only one «p» in developed. Noun: development.

### In the corpora

- [The steel pan was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th century from oil drums and is its national instrument.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/14/)
- [The numbers 0 to 9 that we call Arabic numerals were first developed in India and reached Europe through Arabic books.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/22-the-islamic-golden-age-and-the-wider-medieval-world/10/)
- [This time the teacher agrees completely: all four were first developed in China and spread west over centuries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/53-china-the-four-great-inventions/1/)
- [Contact with nature and many kinds of microbes may help a child's immune system develop, though scientists are still studying the details.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing/17/)
- [Adaptations develop over many generations, not in one animal's life.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «develop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/develop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.