A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage):
— The evolution of Greek civilization.
synonym: development.
Roget 301:
extraction;
extracting
etc.
v.;
removal,
elimination,
extrication,
eradication,
evolution.
evulsion†,
avulsion†;
wrench;
expression,
squeezing;
extirpation,
extermination;
ejection
etc.
297;
export
etc.
(egress)
295.
extractor,
corkscrew,
forceps,
pliers.
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Roget 680:
action,
performance;
doing,
etc.
v.;
perpetration;
exercise,
excitation;
movement,
operation,
evolution,
work;
labor
etc.
(exertion)
686;
praxis,
execution;
procedure
etc.
(conduct)
692;
handicraft;
business
etc.
625;
agency
etc.
(power at work)
170.
deed,
act,
overt act,
stitch,
touch,
gest transaction†,
job,
doings,
dealings,
proceeding,
measure,
step,
maneuver,
bout,
passage,
move,
stroke,
blow;
coup,
coup de main,
coup d'etat [Fr.];
tour de force
etc.
(display)
882;
feat,
exploit;
achievement
etc.
(completion)
729;
handiwork,
workmanship;
manufacture;
stroke of policy
etc.
(plan)
626.
actor
etc.
(doer)
690.
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Roget 673:
preparation;
providing
etc.
v.;
provision,
providence;
anticipation
etc.
(foresight)
510;
precaution,
preconcertation†,
predisposition;
forecast
etc.
(plan)
626;
rehearsal,
note of preparation.
[Putting in order]
arrangement
etc.
60;
clearance;
adjustment
etc.
23;
tuning;
equipment,
outfit,
accouterment,
armament,
array.
ripening
etc.
v.;
maturation,
evolution;
elaboration,
concoction,
digestion;
gestation,
batching,
incubation,
sitting.
groundwork,
first stone,
cradle,
stepping-stone;
foundation,
scaffold
etc.
(support)
215;
scaffolding,
echafaudage [Fr.].
[Preparation of men]
training
etc.
(education)
537;
inurement
etc.
(habit)
613;
novitiate;
cooking
[Preparation of food],
cookery;
brewing,
culinary art;
tilling,
plowing,
[Preparation of the soil],
sowing;
semination†,
cultivation.
[State of being prepared]
preparedness,
readiness,
ripeness,
mellowness;
maturity;
un impromptu fait a loisir [Fr.].
[Preparer]
preparer,
trainer;
pioneer,
trailblazer;
avant-courrier [Fr.],
avant-coureur [Fr.];
voortrekker [Afrik.];
sappers and miners,
pavior†,
navvy†;
packer,
stevedore;
warming pan.
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Roget 359:
life,
vitality,
viability;
animation;
vital spark,
vital flame,
soul,
spirit.
respiration,
wind;
breath of life,
breath of one's nostrils;
oxygen,
air.
[devices to sustain respiration]
respirator,
artificial respirator,
heart and lung machine,
iron lung;
medical devices
etc.
662.
lifeblood;
Archeus†;
existence
etc.
1.
vivification;
vital force;
vitalization;
revivification
etc.
163;
Prometheus;
life to come
etc.
(destiny)
152.
[Science of life]
physiology,
biology;
animal ecology.
nourishment,
staff of life
etc.
(food)
298.
genetics,
heredity,
inheritance,
evolution,
natural selection,
reproduction
(production)
161.
microbe,
aerobe,
anaerobe,
facultative anaerobe,
obligate aerobe,
obligate anaerobe,
halophile [Micro.],
methanogen [Micro.],
archaebacteria [Micro.],
microaerophile [Micro.].
animal
etc.
366;
vegetable
etc.
367.
artificial life,
robot,
robotics,
artificial intelligence.
[vital signs]
breathing,
breathing rate,
heartbeat,
pulse,
temperature.
preservation of life,
healing
(medicine)
662.
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Roget 313:
evolution,
counter-rotation,
unfolding,
development;
evolvement;
unfoldment;
eversion
etc.
(inversion)
218.
Roget 264:
motion,
movement,
move;
going
etc.
v.;
unrest.
stream,
flow,
flux,
run,
course,
stir;
evolution;
kinematics;
telekinesis.
step,
rate,
pace,
tread,
stride,
gait,
port,
footfall,
cadence,
carriage,
velocity,
angular velocity;
clip,
progress,
locomotion;
journey
etc.
266;
voyage
etc.
267;
transit
etc.
270.
restlessness
etc.
(changeableness)
149;
mobility;
movableness,
motive power;
laws of motion;
mobilization.
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Roget 161:
production,
creation,
construction,
formation,
fabrication,
manufacture;
building,
architecture,
erection,
edification;
coinage;
diaster†;
organization;
nisus formativus [Lat.];
putting together
etc.
v.;
establishment;
workmanship,
performance;
achievement
etc.
(completion)
729.
flowering,
fructification;
inflorescence.
bringing forth
etc.
v.;
parturition,
birth,
birth-throe,
childbirth,
delivery,
confinement,
accouchement,
travail,
labor,
midwifery,
obstetrics;
geniture†;
gestation
etc.
(maturation)
673;
assimilation;
evolution,
development,
growth;
entelechy [Phil.];
fertilization,
gemination,
germination,
heterogamy [Biol.],
genesis,
generation,
epigenesis†,
procreation,
progeneration†,
propagation;
fecundation,
impregnation;
albumen
etc.
357.
spontaneous generation;
archegenesis†,
archebiosis†;
biogenesis,
abiogenesis†,
digenesis†,
dysmerogenesis†,
eumerogenesis†,
heterogenesis†,
oogenesis,
merogenesis†,
metogenesis†,
monogenesis†,
parthenogenesis,
homogenesis†,
xenogenesis1†;
authorship,
publication;
works,
opus,
oeuvre.
biogeny†,
dissogeny†,
xenogeny†;
tocogony†,
vacuolization.
edifice,
building,
structure,
fabric,
erection,
pile,
tower,
flower,
fruit.
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Roget 144:
conversion,
reduction,
transmutation,
resolution,
assimilation;
evolution,
sea change;
change of state;
assumption;
naturalization;
transportation;
development [Biol.],
developing.
[photography]
[conversion of currency]
conversion of currency,
exchange of currency;
exchange rate;
bureau de change.
chemistry,
alchemy;
progress,
growth,
lapse,
flux.
passage;
transit,
transition;
transmigration,
shifting
etc.
v.;
phase;
conjugation;
convertibility.
crucible,
alembic,
caldron,
retort.
convert,
pervert,
renegade,
apostate.
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Roget 140:
change,
alteration,
mutation,
permutation,
variation,
modification,
modulation,
inflexion,
mood,
qualification,
innovation,
metastasis,
deviation,
turn,
evolution,
revolution;
diversion;
break.
transformation,
transfiguration;
metamorphosis;
transmutation;
deoxidization [Chem];
transubstantiation;
[Genetics],
mutagenesis
transanimation†,
transmigration,
metempsychosis†;
avatar;
alterative.
conversion
etc.
(gradual change)
144;
revolution
etc.
(sudden or radical change)
146,
inversion
etc.
(reversal)
218;
displacement
etc.
185;
transference
etc.
270.
changeableness
etc.
149;
tergiversation
etc.
(change of mind)
607.
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Roget 85:
numeration;
numbering
etc.
v.;
pagination;
tale,
recension†,
enumeration,
summation,
reckoning,
computation,
supputation†;
calculation,
calculus;
algorithm,
algorism†,
rhabdology†,
dactylonomy†;
measurement
etc.
466;
statistics.
arithmetic,
analysis,
algebra,
geometry,
analytical geometry,
fluxions†;
differential calculus,
integral calculus,
infinitesimal calculus;
calculus of differences.
[Statistics]
dead reckoning,
muster,
poll,
census,
capitation,
roll call,
recapitulation;
account
etc.
(list)
86.
[Operations]
notation, ,
addition,
subtraction,
multiplication,
division,
rule of three,
practice,
equations,
extraction of roots,
reduction,
involution,
evolution,
estimation,
approximation,
interpolation,
differentiation,
integration.
[Instruments]
abacus,
logometer†,
slide rule,
slipstick [Coll.],
tallies,
Napier's bones,
calculating machine,
difference engine,
suan-pan†;
adding machine;
cash register;
electronic calculator,
calculator,
computer;
[people who calculate]
arithmetician,
calculator,
abacist†,
algebraist,
mathematician;
statistician,
geometer;
programmer;
accountant,
auditor.
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Roget 66:
beginning,
commencement,
opening,
outset,
incipience,
inception,
inchoation†;
introduction
etc.
(precursor)
64;
alpha,
initial;
inauguration,
debut,
le premier pas,
embarcation [Fr.],
rising of the curtain;
maiden speech;
outbreak,
onset,
brunt;
initiative,
move,
first move;
narrow end of the wedge,
thin end of the wedge;
fresh start,
new departure.
origin
etc.
(cause)
153;
source,
rise;
bud,
germ
etc.
153;
egg,
rudiment;
genesis,
primogenesis†,
birth,
nativity,
cradle,
infancy;
start,
inception,
creation,
starting point
etc.
293;
dawn
etc.
(morning)
125;
evolution.
title-page;
head,
heading;
van
etc.
(front)
234;
caption,
fatihah†.
entrance,
entry;
inlet,
orifice,
mouth,
chops,
lips,
porch,
portal,
portico,
propylon†,
door;
gate,
gateway;
postern,
wicket,
threshold,
vestibule;
propylaeum†;
skirts,
border
etc.
(edge)
231.
first stage,
first blush,
first glance,
first impression,
first sight.
rudiments,
elements,
outlines,
grammar,
alphabet,
ABC.
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Roget 311:
circuition†,
circulation;
turn,
curvet;
excursion,
circumvention,
circumnavigation,
circumambulation;
northwest passage;
circuit
etc.
629.
turning
etc.
v.;
wrench;
evolution;
coil,
corkscrew.
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Dutch: loop, ontwikkelingsgang, verloop
Polish: ewolucja, progres, progresja, rozwój