Lexic.us

Definition of Developed

1. Adjective. Being changed over time so as to be e.g. stronger or more complete or more useful. "They have very small limbs with only two fully developed toes on each"

2. Adjective. (used of societies) having high industrial development. "Developed countries"

3. Adjective. (of real estate) made more useful and profitable as by building or laying out roads. "Condominiums were built on the developed site"

Definition of Developed

1. Adjective. (context: said of a country) Not primitive; not third world. ¹

2. Adjective. Mature. ¹

3. Adjective. ¹

4. Verb. (past of develop) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Developed

1. develop [v] - See also: develop

Lexicographical Neighbors of Developed

devein deveined deveining deveins devel develed develin develing develins develled

develling develop developable developable surface develope developed (current term) developed countries developement developer developer program

developers developes developing developing countries development developmental developmental age developmental anatomy developmental biologies

Literary usage of Developed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Human Entozoa: Comprising the Description of the Different Species of by William Abbotts Smith (1863)
"HYDATIDS have never been found free within the peritoneum, unless they had been previously developed in a cyst which, after its rupture, had discharged its ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"It appears that the Malpighian tubes of Scorpio arc developed from the ... insects the similar caecal tubes are developed from the ..."

3. The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911)
"The first laws developed for cutting metals were crude, and contained only a partial knowledge of the truth, yet this imperfect knowledge was vastly ..."

4. Horticultural Exports of Developing Countries: Past Performance, Future by Nurul Islam (1990)
"What were the major sources of imports of the developed market economies? ... This was less true for developing countries than for developed countries, ..."

5. Transactions by European Orthodontic Society, Lina Oswald, Northern Ohio Dental Society, Ossory Archaeological Society, Wentworth Historical Society, Society of Automobile Engineers (1910)
"By AIEE THE developed HIGH TENSION NET-WORK OF A GENERAL POWER SYSTEM BY PAUL M. DOWNING The greatest incentive to the development and construction of ..."

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