developer
Use Developer in a sentence
ə noun
1.
a person or thing that develops.
2.
Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.
3.
a person who invests in and develops the urban or suburban potentialities of real estate, especially by subdividing the land into home sites and then building houses and selling them.
4.
Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.
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Developer
is always a great word to know.
So is short subject. Does it mean:
| a short film, as a documentary or travelogue, shown as part of a program with a feature-length film |
| a place outside of the studio that is used for filming a movie or a scene |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person or thing that develops something, esp a person who develops property |
| 2. | photog a solution of a chemical reducing agent that converts the latent image recorded in the emulsion of a film or paper into a visible image |
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Word Origin & History
developer
1833, "one who develops," agent noun from develop. Photography use attested from 1869; meaning "speculative builder" is from 1938.
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Example sentences
Dave had been hearing talk on the street of a developer snatching up property in the neighborhood.
The independent software developer wanted to get his voice out-unexpurgated.
Now plastic sheeting shrouds a bankrupt developer's half-built luxury flats.
The developer of the device in the winning entry says it was used without permission.
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