From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
growing \growing\ n. the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism.
Syn: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. increasing in intensity of some quality. [prenominal]
Syn: increasing(prenominal), incremental. [WordNet 1.5]
2. increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity. [WordNet 1.5]
3. increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things normally healthy and not fully matured.
Syn: flourishing, thriving. [WordNet 1.5]
4. p. pr. of {grow} (definition 3); as, growing plants. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grow \Grow\ (gr[=o]), verb (used without an object) [imp. {Grew} (gr[udd]); p. p. {Grown (gr[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Growing}.] [AS. gr[=o]wan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. gr[=o]a, Dan. groe, Sw. gro. Cf. {Green}, {Grass}.]
1. 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.
2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
Winter began to grow fast on. --Knolles.
Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus. --Shak.
3. 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.
Where law faileth, error groweth. --Gower.
4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.
For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary. --Byron.
5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. --Shak.
{Growing cell}, or {Growing slide}, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope.
{Grown over}, covered with a growth.
{To grow out of}, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from.
These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. --A. Hamilton.
{To grow up}, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children.
{To grow together}, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. --Howells.
Syn: To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand; extend.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: increasing in size or degree or amount; "her growing popularity"; "growing evidence of a world depression"; "a growing city"; "growing businesses"
2: having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life; "flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population" [syn: {flourishing}, {thriving}]
3: relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather"
noun
1: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: {growth}, {maturation}, {development}, {ontogeny}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]
2: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "growing": architecture, assembly, blooming, blossoming, budding, building, burgeoning, callow, casting, composition, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, crescendoing, crescent, cultivation, developed, devising, dewy, elaboration, erection, expanding, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, florescent, flourishing, flowering, formation, forming, formulation, framing, full-fledged, full-grown, fully developed, green, green thumb, grown, grown-up, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hypertrophied, immature, impubic, increasing, incremental, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, intensifying, juicy, lengthening, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, mature, milling, mining, minor, molding, multiplying, naive, new-fledged, on the increase, overdeveloped, overgrown, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, proliferating, raising, raw, rearing, refining, ripening, sappy, shaping, smelting, snowballing, spreading, sprouting, swelling, tender, thriving, tightening, unadult, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, vernal, virginal, waxing, workmanship
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