Adventure vs Development - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between adventure and development

is that adventure is the encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat while development is the process of developing; growth, directed change.

As a verb adventure

is to risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.

adventure

English

(wikipedia adventure)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) aventure, aunter, anter, from (etyl) aventure, from , which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).

Noun

(en noun)

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

* Macaulay

He loved excitement and adventure .

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.

(Francis Bacon)

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.

* 1984 , Spyplane'' (review, in ''Crash , issue 4, May 1984) [http://www.crashonline.org.uk/04/spyplne.htm]

The first thing to strike me about Spyplane was that it is more like a verbal simulation than an adventure .

* 1988 , Mike Gerrard, The Guild Of Thieves'' (review, in ''Your Sinclair , issue 29, May 1988) [http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/theguildofthieves.htm]

To sum up, I think this is definitely one of the best adventures around for the Spectrum now, along with Gnome Ranger

* 1992 , Larry Horsfield, The SU Guide to Playing and Writing Adventure Games'' (in ''Sinclair User magazine, issue 128, October 1992)

Before you sit down in front of your Speccy to play an adventure , equip yourself with a pencil, eraser and plenty of paper. This so that you may draw a 'map' of the adventure as you move around.

(obsolete) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

* Milton

Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures , be fastened upon him individually.

(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.

* Berners

He was in great adventure of his life.

Derived terms

* (remarkable occurrence) boredom

Antonyms

* abstention, peradventure, unadventurous

Etymology 2

From (etyl) aventuren, auntren, which from (etyl) aventurer, from aventure.

Verb

(adventur)

To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.

* Bible, Acts xix. 31

He would not adventure himself into the theatre.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

* Bunyan

Yet they adventured to go back.

* J. Taylor

Discriminations might be adventured .

To try the chance; to take the risk.

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Derived terms

* adventurer * adventuresome * adventuress * adventurous * adventurously * adventurousness

References

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development

English

(wikipedia development)

Noun

(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.

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(uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is produced by the addition of new cells.

Of more significance in the nature of branch development ; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.

(countable) Something which has developed.

(real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real estate development.

(real estate, uncountable) The building of a real estate development.

(uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (''cf. research).

(chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.

(music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.