HOW TO PRONOUNCE
developer
/dɪˈvɛləpɚ/
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Give “vel” the main stress.
The first vowel is light and the second syllable stands out. Keep the last two syllables softer, with an r-colored vowel at the end.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The developer fixed the search feature.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does developer mean?
noun
- A person or entity engaged in the creation or improvement of certain classes of products.
- A real estate developer; a person or company who prepares a parcel of land for sale, or creates structures on that land.
- A film developer; a person who uses chemicals to create photographs from photograph negatives.
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noun
- A liquid used in the chemical processing of traditional photos.
- A reagent used to produce an ingrain color by its action upon some substance on the fiber.
- A software developer; a person or company who creates or modifies computer software.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈvɛləpɚ/
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Do this repeatedly, for, besides being a good lung developer, it is an excellent exercise for the liver.
Octave Chanute, of Chicago, may well be called "the developer of the flying machine."
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More likely he was its developer only, since the principle of the pulley was known to the old Babylonians, as their sculptures testify.
He had been in authority over thirty-five hundred postal employees, and was the developer of a system that covered every inhabited portion of the country.
To develop the plate, it is put into a solution of pyrogallic acid, the developer, and carbonate of sodium, the motive power in the process.