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Development vs Widening - What's the difference?

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Development is a related term of widening.


As nouns the difference between development and widening

is that development is (uncountable) the process of developing; growth, directed change while widening is the action of the verb widen.

As an adjective widening is

of things that are growing wider.

As a verb widening is

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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.
  • widening

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of things that are growing wider.
  • Of things that are separate, with increasing separation.
  • The widening gap between rich and poor creates social problems.

    Quotations

    * 1920 — *: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb widen.
  • * 1887 — , Olalla
  • She looked up sleepily and asked me what it was, and with the very words I thought she drew in her breath with a widening of the nostrils and seemed to come suddenly and fully alive.

    Verb

    (head)