developer
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
developer
n 1: someone who develops real estate (especially someone who
prepares a site for residential or commercial use)
2: photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for
developing film
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Developer \De*vel"op*er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, develops.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Photog.) A chemical bath or reagent used in developing
photographs.
Note: By the action of the developer, the latent image on a
photographic plate or film, not perceptible to the eye
after exposure in the camera, is developed and becomes
visible.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
3. (Dyeing) A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its
action upon some substance on the fiber.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. a corporation or individual who finances or organizes a
real estate development[5].
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "developer":
a, architect, contriver, designer, deviser, enterpriser,
entrepreneur, fixer, fixing bath, framer, hypo, organizer, planner,
processing solution, projector, promoter, short-stop,
short-stop bath, sodium hyposulfite, sodium thiosulfate, soup,
stop bath, strategian, strategist, tactician
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