English Dictionary

evolve

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪˈvɑlv/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

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

日本語の意味

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

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

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。

意味（1）

To move in regular procession through a system.

The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul

意味（2）

(intransitive) To change; transform.

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

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（5）

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

How long ago did beaks evolve?

意味（6）

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

How long ago did birds evolve beaks?

意味（7）

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

to evolve odours

意味（8）

(transitive) To cause something to change or transform.

evolves （ present singular third-person ）

evolving （ participle present ）

evolved （ participle past ）

evolved （ past ）