Definitions of develop:

• verb:   make visible by means of chemical solutions

  Example: "Please develop this roll of film for me"

• verb:   expand in the form of a series

  Example: "Develop the function in the following form"

• verb:   grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

  Example: "A flower developed on the branch"

• verb:   cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development

  Example: "The perfect climate here develops the grain"

• verb:   be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest

  Example: "The plot developed slowly"

• verb:   elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

  Example: "Develop the melody and change the key"

• verb:   grow emotionally or mature

  Example: "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"

• verb:   gain through experience

  Example: "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"

• verb:   move into a strategically more advantageous position

  Example: "Develop the rook"

• verb:   move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions

  Example: "Spassky developed quickly"

• verb:   superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
• verb:   generate gradually

  Example: "We must develop more potential customers"

• verb:   make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation

  Example: "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"

• verb:   create by training and teaching

  Example: "We develop the leaders for the future"

• verb:   come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

  Example: "The patient developed abdominal pains"

• verb:   change the use of and make available or usable

  Example: "Develop land"

• verb:   happen

  Example: "Report the news as it develops"

• verb:   become technologically advanced

  Example: "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"

• verb:   elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

  Example: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"

• verb:   work out

  Example: "We have developed a new theory of evolution"

• verb:   come into existence; take on form or shape