develop : Idioms & Phrases


developing country

  • noun a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically
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highly-developed

  • adjective satellite (used of societies) having high industrial development
    developed.
    • developed countries
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inward-developing

  • adjective satellite toward an axis, as in a sunflower; the oldest flowers are near the edge, the youngest in the center
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outward-developing

  • adjective satellite away from an axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center, the youngest near the edge
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To develop a curved surface on a place

  • (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.
Webster 1913