Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - evolve
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Evolve
evolve
verb (~d; evolving) Etymology: Latin ~re to unroll, from e- + volvere to roll — more at voluble Date: 1775 transitive verb 1. emit 2. a. derive, educe b. to produce by natural evolutionary processes c. develop, work out ~ social, political, and literary philosophies — L. W. Doob intransitive verb to undergo evolutionary change • evolvable adjective • ~ment noun
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v. 1 intr. & tr. develop gradually by a natural process. 2 tr. work out or devise (a theory, plan, etc.). 3 intr. & tr. unfold; open out. 4 tr. give off (gas, heat, etc.). Derivatives evolvable adj. evolvement n. Etymology: L evolvere evolut- (as E-, volvere roll) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. развивать, развертывать to evolve the powers of (the) mind —- развивать умственные способности to evolve a scheme —- развернуть план to evolve social, political and literary philosophies —- создавать (вырабатывать) социальные, политические и литературные теории 2. развиваться, эволюционировать society evolved through the ages —- общество развивалось на протяжении веков 3. (into) развиваться, превращаться to evolve into a human being —- развиться (превратиться) в человека 4. выделять (газ и т. п.); испускать, издавать (запах) 5. раскрывать, выявлять to evolve a secret —- раскрыть тайну to evolve new talents —- выявлять новые таланты 6. уст. развертывать (свиток и т. п.); распутывать (клубок и т. п.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
5.
v. 1) эволюционировать (from/out) Some people still do not believe that man evolved from monkeys. 2) развиваться; развертываться (from/out) The painter evolved his ideas about form and colour out of the work of an earlier artist. 3) развивать (теорию и т.п.) to evolve a plan - наметить план 4) выделять (газы, теплоту); издавать (запах) ...Англо-русский словарь
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(evolves, evolving, evolved) 1. When animals or plants evolve, they gradually change and develop into different forms. The bright plumage of many male birds has evolved to attract females... Maize evolved from a wild grass in Mexico. ...when amphibians evolved into reptiles. VERB: V, V from n, V into n 2. If something evolves or you evolve it, it gradually develops over a period of time into something different and usually more advanced. ...a tiny airline which eventually evolved into Pakistan International Airlines... Popular music evolved from folk songs... As medical knowledge evolves, beliefs change... This was when he evolved the working method from which he has never departed. VERB: V into n, V from n, V, V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
7.
~ v to develop or make something develop by gradually changing + from/out of etc (Darwin believed that we evolved from apes.) evolve sth (evolving a new management style) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1641, "to unfold, open out, expand," from L. evolvere "unroll," from ex- "out" + volvere "to roll." Evolution (1622), originally "unrolling of a book," used in the modern scientific sense first by Scot. geologist Charles Lyell, 1832. Charles Darwin used the word only once, in the closing paragraph of "The Origin of Species" (1859), and prefered descent with modification, in part because evolution already had been used in the 18c. homunculus theory of embryological development, in part because it carried a sense of "progress" not found in Darwin's idea. But Victorian belief in progress prevailed (along with brevity), and Herbert Spencer and other biologists popularized evolution. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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