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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
developing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a developing economy (=one that is getting stronger and starting to include more modern industries)
▪ Many developing economies are investing in sources of renewable energy.
a developing/emerging nation (=one that is starting to have more industry)
▪ Food shortages are often a problem in developing nations.
a developing/Third World country (=poor and trying to increase its industry and trade)
▪ Many developing countries receive some foreign aid.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ The company is also developing two new materials which it hopes will be strong enough to fill cavities in the back teeth.
▪ Sun is also developing multiple iterations of Tsunami, its low-end low-cost high-volume single-chip MicroSparc engine.
▪ A similar trend is also developing whereby parents sell their home when their children have established an independent existence.
▪ It is also developing ann information service, meals-on-wheels, and support groups.
▪ The theories about how the signalling behaviour is controlled are also developing fast.
▪ Most of the other companies included in the table are also developing or have already developed liaisons of this type.
rapidly
▪ This makes the sperm, like all rapidly developing cells, especially vulnerable to damage from chemicals or radiation.
▪ It will be appreciated that this rapidly developing field of expertise contains extensive new jargon.
▪ Three open sprinklers were found to be sufficient to stop even the most rapidly developing fire.
▪ Bioremediation is a promising and rapidly developing treatment technology with a bright future.
▪ This is a rapidly developing field which poses great challenges for both experimentalists and theoreticians.
▪ In advertising, you are part of the most rapidly developing new industry in the world, namely communications and information technology.
still
▪ Cells in the tumour seem to resemble the body's own cells soon after conception when a baby is still developing.
▪ It is a comprehensive system - and still developing.
▪ We are still developing as a group and learning as we go along.
■ NOUN
country
▪ We have promised to provide new and additional resources to help the developing countries to tackle their environmental problems.
▪ At the most basic level, then, the health of women and girls in developing countries continued to be neglected.
▪ The developing countries were urged to renounce such military links and embrace a policy of neutralism or non-alignment.
▪ Life expectation at birth is about 45 years in developing countries and more than 70 years in developed countries.
▪ Exchange rates Many developing countries attempt to manage their exchange rates.
▪ Governments of developing countries give only low budgets to developing communications.
▪ Secretory diarrhoea is an important health problem particularly in developing countries.
economy
▪ These include the need for foreign currency and the attraction of foreign companies and their interests in developing economies.
▪ In developing economies these two propositions are not incompatible.
▪ Goods traffic is more fundamental to a developing economy than is that in passengers or mail, but these are also important.
nation
▪ Eva took those from the developing nations particularly under her wing.
▪ These problems include those associated with rural poverty, malnutrition, population changes and environmental degradation in developing nations.
▪ Staff are also seconded to fill established posts in geological survey departments in the developing nations of the Commonwealth.
▪ In the last two decades world production of electricity has roughly doubled, with the developing nations pulling towards overtaking the developed.
▪ Visby's compromise was regarded by the developing nations as responsive to the complaints of maritime carriers.
▪ It was also argued that the ban was premature and that developing nations would have their industrial development impaired as a result.
▪ These problems can occur in societies which are already developed and modern as well as in developing nations.
world
▪ Almost all the growth will occur in the cities of the developing world.
▪ A final factor that affects the number of children desired by developing world couples is infant mortality.
▪ The organisers hope that the event will have raised £25,000 for charitable projects at home and in the developing world.
▪ Here as elsewhere in the developing world, traffic snarls have increased tensions and decreased productivity.
▪ The complexity of rural development everywhere, whether in the developed or the developing world, is not always realised.
▪ A more open international trading system was needed to provide access to exports from the developing world.
▪ Currently, Televisa is the largest communications corporation in the developing world.
▪ Thus the management of forests on a global basis constitutes an agent of environmental change in both the developed and developing world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a developing fetus
▪ Good nutrition is very important to a developing child.
▪ the developing crisis in the Middle East
▪ These drugs are effective in the developing stages of the disease.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In two developing countries, the lowest frequency of fetal mortality is at births above second but below sixth or seventh order.
▪ Objective: to promote international trade, particularly that of developing countries, with a view to accelerating economic development.
▪ This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
developing

developing \developing\ n. the process of treating a photosensitive material with chemicals in order to make a latent image visible.

Syn: development.

developing

developing \developing\ adj.

  1. not industrialized but undergoing industrialization; -- sometimes used as a euphemism for "undeveloped"; -- of nations.

    Syn: underdeveloped.

  2. [pr. p. of develop (WN definition 5)] becoming or arising; as, the rushing yellow of the developing day.

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Wiktionary
developing

  1. Of a country: becoming economically more mature or advanced; becoming industrialized. v

  2. (present participle of develop English)

WordNet
developing

  1. adj. relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply [syn: underdeveloped]

  2. gradually unfolding or growing (especially as of something latent); "his developing social conscience"; "after the long winter they took joy in the developing warmth of spring"

  3. making or becoming visible through or as if through the action of a chemical agent; "he watched as the developing photograph became clearer and sharper"

  4. n. processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours" [syn: development]

Wikipedia
Developing (film)

Developing is a 1993 short film directed by Marya Cohn, about the relationship between a girl and her single mother, who has breast cancer. The film stars Natalie Portman in her first film role and Frances Conroy. The short was Cohn's thesis film.

Usage examples of "developing".

Islamic Orientalism between the wars shared in the general sense of cultural crisis adumbrated by Auerbach and the others I have spoken of briefly, without at the same time developing in the same way as the other human sciences.

Id like to reiterate my earlier claim about radio being the most visual medium available to advertisers and to 212 Nuts and Bolts recall the discussion of visual storyboards--a staple in the creation of television conimerciaLs--as a means of developing a radio campaign.

He had been released temporarily from duty in the aerology lab but McDevitt, who was a tactful and sympathetic person and had been aware of the friendship developing between the boy and Beetchermarlf.

There was always the fear of allergy to the local anesthetic, although developing allergy in the two hours since the first dose seemed a rather farfetched notion.

He was a remarkable fielder and a good batsman for a pitcher, men who play that position being poor wielders of the ash, as a rule, for the reason, as I have always thought, that they paid more attention to the art of deceiving the batsman that are opposed to them than they do to developing their own batting powers.

In the living room, Proctor began to overturn furniture, tear paintings from the walls, and smash bibelots, further developing the scenario that would lead the police away from any consideration that the intruder might have been other than a common drug-pumped thug.

The blue and violet blacks may be converted to jet shades by adding to the dye-bath some yellow dye-stuff, such as Azo Yellow, Alizarine Yellow, or Gambine Yellow, which will resist the action of the bichrome in the developing bath.

Dominion apparently had erroneous intelligence that we were developing biogenic weapons on New Beijing.

Stuart Kauffman, chief scientific officer and co-founder of Cistem Molecular and leading entrepreneur in the developing field of bioinformatics, discusses how computers may be used to determine the circuitry and logic of genes and cells.

Lord eventually 72 would achieve a major breakthrough by developing an important new drug.

Her brother was writing while I conversed with her, or rather answered all the questions which she addressed to me, and which I could only satisfy by developing the ideas that she already had, and that she was herself amazed to find in her own mind, for her soul had until then been unconscious of its own powers.

The links that bind all created things together are the links of a single Unity, and the whole Universe is One, developing itself into the manifold.

This chapter focuses on the developing technique of criminal profiling by Special Agents at the FBI Academy who have demonstrated expertise in crime scene analysis of various violent crimes, particularly those involving sexual homicide.

It reproduced like the vegetable cryptogams, especially the Pteridophyta, having spore cases at the tips of the wings and evidently developing from a thallus or prothallus.

She talked on and on, developing this main idea that in days of older faiths there were deific types of life upon the earth, evoked by worship and beneficial to humanity.