Verb

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(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

(head)

(promote)

Verb

(promot)

To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

He promoted his clerk to office manager.

Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.

They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.

They promoted the new film with giant billboards.

To encourage, urge or incite

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}

To elevate to the above league.

At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.

(label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure

(label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank