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Landscape vs Development - What's the difference?

landscape | development |

As nouns the difference between landscape and development

is that landscape is a portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains while development is (uncountable) the process of developing; growth, directed change.

As a verb landscape

is create or maintain a landscape.

landscape

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
  • A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
  • The pictorial aspect of a country.
  • (printing) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
  • A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape ")
  • (figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario
  • The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years

    Antonyms

    * (printing mode) portrait

    Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * landscape gardener * landscape gardening * -scape

    Verb

    (landscap)
  • Create or maintain a landscape.
  • See also

    * dreamscape * moonscape * seascape

    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.
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  • 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.