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What is the difference between developer and dev?

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As nouns the difference between developer and dev

is that developer is a person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products while dev is developer.

developer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
  • A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
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  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
  • A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.
  • A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.
  • A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
  • Synonyms

    * (person or company who writes computer software) programmer

    Anagrams

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    dev

    English

    (wikipedia dev)

    Etymology 1

    (en)

    Noun

  • developer
  • development
  • (computing, UNIX) device
  • Derived terms
    * devkit

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Armenian mythology) a monster, dragon, serpent, or giant
  • (Armenian mythology) immortal spirits who inhabit old ruins
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