1.
[syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis]
2. (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state;
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. relating to or suitable for growth;
- Example: "the growing season for corn"
- Example: "good growing weather"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grow \Grow\ (gr[=o]), v. i. [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.
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2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to
be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
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Winter began to grow fast on. --Knolles.
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Even just the sum that I do owe to you
Is growing to me by Antipholus. --Shak.
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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.
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Where law faileth, error groweth. --Gower.
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4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect
from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.
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For his mind
Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary. --Byron.
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5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
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Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.
--Shak.
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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.
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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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
growing \growing\ n.
the sequence of events involved in the development of an
organism.
Syn: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
growing \growing\ adj.
1. increasing in intensity of some quality. [prenominal]
Syn: increasing(prenominal), incremental.
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2. increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity.
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3. increasing in size and maturity; -- of living things
normally healthy and not fully matured.
Syn: flourishing, thriving.
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4. p. pr. of grow (definition 3); as, growing plants.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
growing
adj 1: relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season
for corn"; "good growing weather"
n 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, growing,
maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis]
[ant: nondevelopment]
2: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by
slow crystallization from the molten state