Develop vs. Grow — What's the Difference?

Grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate

(of a living thing) undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically

Start to exist, experience, or possess

Become larger or greater over a period of time; increase

Treat (a photographic film) with chemicals to make a visible image

Become gradually or increasingly

Bring (a piece) into play from its initial position on a player's back rank

To increase in size by a natural process.

To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment

To expand; gain

To expand or enlarge

To increase in amount or degree; intensify

To aid in the growth of; strengthen

To develop and reach maturity.

To improve the quality of; refine

To be capable of growth; thrive

To cause to become more complex or intricate; add detail and fullness to; elaborate

To become attached by or as if by the process of growth

(Music) To elaborate (a theme) with rhythmic and harmonic variations.

To come into existence from a source; spring up

To bring into being gradually

To come to be by a gradual process or by degrees; become

To set forth or clarify by degrees

To cause to grow; raise

To come to have gradually; acquire

To allow (something) to develop or increase by a natural process

To become affected with; contract

Usage Problem To cause to increase or expand by concerted effort

To influence the behavior of toward a specific end

(ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.

To cause (a tract of land or a building) to serve a particular purpose

To undergo growth; to be present somewhere

To make available and effective to fulfill a particular end or need

(intransitive) To appear or sprout.

To convert or transform

(intransitive) To develop, to mature.

(Games) To move (a chess piece) to or toward a more strategic position.

(transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

To process (a photosensitive medium such as exposed film) in order to produce a photographic image.

(copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.

To produce (a photographic image) by use of a photosensitive medium or by printing from a digital file.

To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

To grow by degrees into a more advanced or mature state

To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; - said of animals and vegetables and their organs.

To increase or expand

To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.

To improve; advance

To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.

To come gradually into existence or activity

To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

To come gradually to light; be disclosed

To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

To progress from earlier to later stages of a life cycle

To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.

To progress from earlier to later stages of evolution

Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become;

To acquire secondary sex characteristics. Used especially of a girl.

Become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain;

To discover, find out; to uncover.

Increase in size by natural process;

(intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.

Cause to grow or develop;

(ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.

Develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation;

(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.

Come into existence; take on form or shape;

(transitive) To create.

Cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques;

(transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);

(transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.

Grow emotionally or mature;

To place one's pieces actively.

Become attached by or as if by the process of growth;

To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.

(math) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.

To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.

To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.

To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well-formed animal; the mind develops year by year.

To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.

Make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation;

Work out;

Gain through experience;

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);

Come into existence; take on form or shape;

Change the use of and make available or usable;

Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses;

Create by training and teaching;

Be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest;

Grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment;

Become technologically advanced;

Cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development;

Generate gradually;

Grow emotionally or mature;

Make visible by means of chemical solutions;

Superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

Move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions;

Move into a strategically more advantageous position;

Elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme;

Happen;

Expand in the form of a series;