developer

[ dih-vel-uh-per ]

/ dɪˈvɛl ə pər /

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noun

a person or thing that develops or innovates: a software developer.

Photography. a reducing agent or solution for developing a film or the like.

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.

Shipbuilding. a person who lays out at full size the lines of a vessel and prepares templates from them.

Origin of developer

First recorded in 1825–35; develop + -er¹

Words nearby developer

devastation, devein, devel., develop, developable surface, developer, developing, developing agent, developing country, developing nation, developing world

Example sentences from the Web for developer

What he found was “a post on a Chinese Android developer forum discussing roughly the same code that is used in the malware.”

A Double Agent App Targets Hong Kong’s Protesters |Jacob Siegel |October 1, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
“It is based on avoiding killing civilians,” Roman Shapiro, the developer said in an email exchange.

‘Bomb Gaza’ Game Maker: ‘F**k Them All’ |Gideon Resnick |August 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
At least one developer of a Gaza-related game on Google Play has political intentions behind his work.

‘Bomb Gaza’ Game Maker: ‘F**k Them All’ |Gideon Resnick |August 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Lobb jumped at the chance and got the greenlight to find a developer to work on it.

Video Games Go Wild for Reboots |Alec Kubas-Meyer |July 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

A lawyer for the developer said that he was “very optimistic” his side would prevail.

Why Is Walmart Paying Chris Christie's Pals? |David Freedlander |February 18, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He placed the plate in the tray and turned the developer on it.

Justin Wingate, Ranchman |John H. Whitson
You will not mind my fixing a ‘developer’ here, Miss Chubb—a few small screws?

Max Carrados |Ernest Bramah
Phenol, better known as carbolic acid, finds a use as a developer.

The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics |Franklin Beech
But put in the developer by crossing with a pure coloured form and their variety of constitution can then at last become manifest.

Mendelism |Reginald Crundall Punnett
As compared with the paper, developer is cheap, and it is poor economy to save on the latter.

Bromide Printing and Enlarging |John A. Tennant

British Dictionary definitions for developer

developer

/ (dɪˈvɛləpə) /

noun

a person or thing that develops something, esp a person who develops property

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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