Verb

(head)

(evolve)

Verb

To move in regular procession through a system.

* Sir M. Hale

The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.

* (William Whewell) (1794-1866)

The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .

* (w) (1819-1885)

Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.

To change, transform, develop.

* 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime

You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.

(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}

(chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

Verb

(involv)

To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

* (John Milton)

Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.

To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

* (John Milton)

And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.

To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

* (John Locke)

Involved discourses.

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To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

* (John Milton)

He knows / His end with mine involved .

* Tillotson

The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz

, title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}

To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

* (Alexander Pope)

The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.

* (John Milton)

Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .

To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.

To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

Involved in a deep study.

(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.