déveine, n.f., change of luck (from good to bad); reverses, run of ill-luck. Quelle —! what ill-luck!
développable, adj., susceptible of development.
développante (dév-lo-pant), n.f., (geom.) evolvent; involute.
développée, n.f., (geom.) evolute.
développement (dév-lop-mān), n.m., unfolding, opening; development, growth, progress; elucidation; display; clearing up; (geom.) evolution.
développer (dév-lo-pé), v.a., to open, to unwrap; to unfold; to develop, to expand; to display, to expound, to elucidate, to lay open, to explain; to clear up, to unravel; (arch.) to trace upon a plan. — le plan d’un ouvrage; to explain the plan of a work. — un système; to expound a system.
se développer, v.r., to expand; to unfold itself, to display itself, to be unfolded or displayed; to be cleared up, to be unraveled; to extend itself, to spread out, to stretch out or forth, to be stretched out. Les bourgeons commencent à se —; the buds are beginning to expand. Cet enfant se développe; that child is growing. La raison se développe; reason is asserting itself.
devenir (dĕ-vnir), v.n., to become, to grow, to get, to turn; to become of, to come to. — homme de bien; to become a good man. Ces fruits deviennent rouges en mûrissant; those fruits turn red when ripening. Cela commence à — fatigant; that begins to grow tiresome. — à rien; to come to nothing. Que deviendrai-je? what will become of me? Qu’est devenu votre frère? what has become of your brother? Je ne sais ce qu’il est devenu; I don’t know what has become of him. Que voulez-vous —? what profession do you intend to follow, what do you intend to be? Je ne sais plus que —; I don’t know which way to turn. Faire — fou; to drive one mad.
déventer, v.a., (nav.) to take the wind out (of sails).
dévergondage, n.m., open profligacy; shamelessness; barefaced impudence; dissoluteness.