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develop | mastery |

As a verb develop

is to change with a specific direction, progress.

As a noun mastery is

the position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.

develop

English

(Development)

Alternative forms

* develope (obsolete)

Verb

  • To change with a specific direction, progress.
  • (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
  • * Owen
    • All insects acquire the jointed legs before the wings are fully developed .
  • To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
  • * Jowett (Thucyd)
    • We must develop our own resources to the utmost.
  • To create.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
  • To bring out images latent in photographic film.
  • To acquire something usually over a period of time.
  • (chess) To place one's pieces actively.
  • (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
  • (math) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

    • Usage notes

    * Objects: plan, software, program, product, story, idea.

    Related terms

    * developing * development

    mastery

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
  • * Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
    • If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
  • * (w), xxxii. 18
    • The voice of them that shout for mastery .
  • * , ix. 25.
    • Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.
  • * (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
    • O, but to have gulled him / Had been a mastery .
  • (label) Contest for superiority.
    • (Holland)
  • (label) A masterly operation; a feat.
  • * (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
    • I will do a maistrie ere I go.
  • (label) The philosopher's stone.
  • The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
  • * (John Tillotson) (1630-1694)
    • He could attain to a mastery in all languages.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
    • The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.