evolve — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To move (something) in regular procession through a system.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinonimi

   developprogress

   Esempi

   The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul

2. To change or transform (something).

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinonimi

   develop

   Esempi

   Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic.

3. To cause (something) to come into being or develop.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Sinonimi

   contrivegenerate

   Esempi

   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.

   The interpreter has spent a whole lot of time working the music before the performance, trying to evolve the most accurate translation possible.

   Altri esempi (1)

   […]I ask you, rather, to evolve a suitable plan with due deliberation and report it to me."¹⁴

4. To acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.

   Uso

   • transitivo
   • usually
   • of a population

   Esempi

   How long ago did birds evolve beaks?

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   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.

5. To change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.

   Uso

   • intransitivo
   • transitivo
   • usually
   • of a population

   Esempi

   A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?

   Altri esempi (2)

   There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

   I like to envision a species of humanoids that, having evolved on the moon with one-sixth earth's gravity, are double our height but too spindly to play basketball.

   The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved.

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

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Esempi

   to evolve odours

7. To wind or unwind (something).

   Uso

   • obsoleto
   • transitivo

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   And come, my Muſe! that lov'ſt the ſylvan ſhade, / Evolve the mazes, and the miſt diſpel; / Tranſlate the ſong; convince my doubting maid / No ſolemn Derviſe can explain ſo vvell— […]

8. To move in regular procession through a system.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

   Esempi

   [T]he principles which Art involves, Science alone evolves.

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

9. To change, to transform.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

   Esempi

   What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth.

   An aide of Shah told Reuters that Shah had an early penchant for poetry that evolved into an affinity for rap music.

10. Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.

    Uso

    • intransitivo

    Esempi

    How long ago did beaks evolve?

Verbo

1. work out

   Sinonimi

   germinatedevelop

   Termini più generali

   create by mental actcreate mentally

   Esempi

   We have developed a new theory of evolution

2. undergo development or evolution

   Termini più generali

   develop

   Esempi

   Modern man evolved a long time ago

3. gain through experience

   Sinonimi

   developacquire

   Termini più generali

   change

   Esempi

   I acquired a strong aversion to television

   Children must develop a sense of right and wrong

   Altri esempi (2)

   Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position

   develop a passion for painting