noun
Meaning 1
Growth; increase.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
growing
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹəʊɪŋ/
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rhymes with -əʊɪŋ
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noun
Meaning 2
The raising of plants.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The growing season here begins in March.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
present participle and gerund of grow
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
relating to or suitable for growth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the growing season for corn
- good growing weather
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: production
Narrower terms: epitaxy
noun
Meaning 6
(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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organic process, biological process
Narrower terms: culture, amelogenesis, angiogenesis, apposition, auxesis, blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence, cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, cohesion, cultivation, cytogenesis, cytogeny, foliation, leafing, fructification, gametogenesis, germination, sprouting, habit, infructescence, intussusception, juvenescence, life cycle, masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation, morphogenesis, myelinization, myelinisation, neurogenesis, palingenesis, recapitulation, proliferation, psychogenesis, psychomotor development, psychosexual development, rooting, suppression, teething, dentition, odontiasis, teratogenesis, vegetation
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 增長 /增长 (zēngzhǎng) — growth; increase
- Chinese Mandarin: 增加 (zēngjiā) — growth; increase
- Finnish: kasvu — growth; increase
- Georgian: ზრდა (zrda) — growth; increase
- German: Wachstum — growth; increase
- Irish: fás — growth; increase
- Italian: crescita — growth; increase
- Portuguese: crescente — growth; increase
- Portuguese: crescimento — growth; increase
- Spanish: crecimiento — growth; increase
- Bulgarian: отгле́ждане (otgléždane) — raising of plants
- Chinese Mandarin: 種植 /种植 (zhòngzhí) — raising of plants
- Chinese Mandarin: 栽培 (zāipéi) — raising of plants
- Finnish: kasvu- — raising of plants
- Finnish: kasvava — raising of plants
- German: Wachstums- — raising of plants
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