1.[I,T] [develop (sb/sth) (from sth) (into sth)]（使某人/某事物）发展，发育，成长，发达
2.[I,T]（使某事物）出现，明显化，显露，变得活跃
3.[I,T]【摄】 及物动词：冲洗（已曝光的底片），使（已曝光的底片）显影； 不及物动词：（指底片上的图像）显影
4. 及物动词：在（土地）上建筑房屋等，开发（土地） 词形变化
- 形容词 developable，developed，developing
- 名称 developer
- 时态 developed，developing，develops
- 这些动词均有“成熟、长成”之意。
mature指生物自然发育成熟或丰满或使其能起正常作用，还可指人获得智慧、经验或变得世故。
ripen侧重已到长生成熟的顶点。
age一般指使人过早成熟，强调已走向衰老。
develop侧重使某一种类或个体潜在本能进化完全，词义比mature广泛。
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- generate gradually
- work out
- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- move one‘s pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- gain through experience
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- change the use of and make available or usable
- expand in the form of a series
- make visible by means of chemical solutions
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
- grow emotionally or mature
- create by training and teaching
- become technologically advanced
- happen
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)