act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | musical activity (singing or whistling etc.) |
the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | punishment for one's actions |
(music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds |
a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds) |
a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | |
(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | |
a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | |
a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | |