Development: alternatives and connections

The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancem…

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The period or state of full expansion in a flower.

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The act of adding; application; accretion.

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Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch.

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A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

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of Blossom

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of Broaden

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The act or process of capitalizing.

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The act or state of sticking together; close union.

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The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entanglement; complexity.

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The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

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The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

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Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.

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Cell production or development; cytogenesis.

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of Deepen

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The development and cutting of teeth; teething.

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Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

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The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.

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The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.

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A bursting into flower; a blossoming.

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of Flower

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The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.

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The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

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The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

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The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a relig…

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A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms.

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The reception of one part within another.

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A growing young.

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Modified evolution, in which nonprimitive characters make their appearance in consequence of a secondary adaptation of the embryo to the peculiar con…

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of Leaf

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The series of changes an organism goes through from birth to death

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Cutting of the teeth; dentition.

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Alt. of Palingenesy

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An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light,…

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A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

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The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.

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Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.

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The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

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The act of recapitulating; a summary, or concise statement or enumeration, of the principal points, facts, or statements, in a preceding discourse, a…

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of Root

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of Sprout

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The act of suppressing, or the state of being suppressed; repression; as, the suppression of a riot, insurrection, or tumult; the suppression of trut…

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of Teeth

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

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The act of altering or making different.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Rigorous; stringent; harsh.

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Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

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The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of th…

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The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.

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The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.

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A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.

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The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

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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 giv…

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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 giv…

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A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

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A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the exploits of Alexander the Great.

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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…

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To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

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To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

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To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

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To work beyond the strength; to cause to labor too much or too long; to tire excessively; as, to overwork a horse.

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The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.

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of Develop

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The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg.

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The act of exploiting or utilizing.

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of Grow

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The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…

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The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

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Alt. of Ontogeny

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The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in…

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