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To move in regular procession through a system. / (intransitive) To change; transform. / To come into being; develop.

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evolve

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Source Word

evolve

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ɪˈvɑlv/

Verb

intransitive transitive

To move in regular procession through a system. / (intransitive) To change; transform. / To come into being; develop.

Japanese Meaning

システム内を順序正しく進む / 変化する、変容する / 生まれ出る、発展する

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Comets evolve through the solar system on predictable paths each year.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彗星は毎年、予測できる軌道に沿って太陽系を規則的に巡る。

Sense（1）

To move in regular procession through a system.

Sense（2）

(intransitive) To change; transform.

What began as a few lines of code has now evolved into a million-line behemoth.

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Sense（3）

To come into being; develop.

You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.

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Sense（4）

(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

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Sense（5）

(intransitive) Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution.

How long ago did beaks evolve?

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Sense（6）

(transitive) Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.

How long ago did birds evolve beaks?

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Sense（7）

(chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

to evolve odours

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Sense（8）

(transitive) To cause something to change or transform.

evolves

（ present singular third-person ）

evolving

（ participle present ）

evolved

（ participle past ）

evolved

（ past ）

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