Growing can be categorized as a noun, a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| growing - relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather" | ||
Verb |
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| grow - become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast" | ||
| grow - come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" | ||
| grow - increase in size by natural process; "Corn doesn't grow here"; "In these forests, mushrooms grow under the trees"; "her hair doesn't grow much anymore" | ||
| grow - cause to grow or develop; "He grows vegetables in his backyard" | ||
| grow - cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" | ||
| grow - become attached by or as if by the process of growth; "The tree trunks had grown together" | ||
| grow - come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" | ||
| grow - develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" | ||
| grow - pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" | ||
| grow - grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior" | ||
Noun |
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| growing - (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | ||
| growing - (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" |
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| 1. | adj. | The growing season for corn. | |
| 2. | adj. | Good growing weather. | |
| 3. | adj. | VOA’s Julie Taboh traveled to the fast-developing coastal city to see how students and faculty at this unique college meet a growing and urgent need. | |
| 4. | verb | But the news of the Arakan rebels is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to growing concern in New Delhi over the security of the Andaman Islands. | |
| 5. | verb | With growing economic and military power, India will be dependent on smaller nations in the region increasingly to maintain regional security. | |
| 6. | verb | Not only is the army facing serious political fallout, growing anti-Americanism and anti-army feeling in the tribal areas but it is also taking heavy casualties -between 400-500 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in the region since March. | |
| 7. | verb | Country not open or not have fixed strategy = NASA & Company to use "freeze thawed" strategy especially when the country has a challenging, growing and ambitious space program. | |
| 8. | verb | In the third week I had more than $10,000.00 and it's still growing!! | |
| 9. | verb | They explained that elk in Yellowstone used to browse unmolested on young aspen and willow growing near the banks of streams, a behavior that prevented the saplings from reaching mature stages and increased the possibility of soil erosion. | |
| 10. | verb | "Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho," said Don Quixote. | |
| 11. | verb | I got my horse when I was 12 and I was already 5'9-5'10, thankfully I stopped growing when I hit 5'11" but my horse is about 16.2 or 16.3hh, TB. | |
| 12. | verb | Spring (February to April) and Autumn (August to October) make good alternatives, although the country’s ever-growing popularity as a tourist destination can often blur the lines between mid- and high-season tourism. | |
| 13. | verb | Worms (and Daphnia) are also rich in Lipids, substances important in forming eggs and growing young. | |
| 14. | verb | I have been growing my hair out for 1 year plus and went in to get 1 inch taken off. | |
| 15. | verb | Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. | |
| 16. | verb | The company has growing pains now. | |
| 17. | verb | Many weeds were growing among the flowers. | |
| 18. | verb | The situation is growing serious. | |
| 19. | noun | The economy of Aomori Prefecture depends heavily on apple growing. | |
| 20. | noun | He can hear the grass growing. | |
| 21. | noun | We hear the tree falling but not the forest growing. | |
| 22. | noun | Is Algeria's economy growing? |
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| adj. | |
| The growing season for corn. |
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| Good growing weather. |
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| VOA’s Julie Taboh traveled to the fast-developing coastal city to see how students and faculty at this unique college meet a growing and urgent need. | |
| verb | |
| But the news of the Arakan rebels is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to growing concern in New Delhi over the security of the Andaman Islands. |
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| With growing economic and military power, India will be dependent on smaller nations in the region increasingly to maintain regional security. |
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| Not only is the army facing serious political fallout, growing anti-Americanism and anti-army feeling in the tribal areas but it is also taking heavy casualties -between 400-500 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in the region since March. |
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| Country not open or not have fixed strategy = NASA & Company to use "freeze thawed" strategy especially when the country has a challenging, growing and ambitious space program. |
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| In the third week I had more than $10,000.00 and it's still growing!! |
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| They explained that elk in Yellowstone used to browse unmolested on young aspen and willow growing near the banks of streams, a behavior that prevented the saplings from reaching mature stages and increased the possibility of soil erosion. |
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| "Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho," said Don Quixote. |
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| I got my horse when I was 12 and I was already 5'9-5'10, thankfully I stopped growing when I hit 5'11" but my horse is about 16.2 or 16.3hh, TB. |
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| Spring (February to April) and Autumn (August to October) make good alternatives, although the country’s ever-growing popularity as a tourist destination can often blur the lines between mid- and high-season tourism. |
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| Worms (and Daphnia) are also rich in Lipids, substances important in forming eggs and growing young. |
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| I have been growing my hair out for 1 year plus and went in to get 1 inch taken off. |
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| Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. | |
| The company has growing pains now. | |
| Many weeds were growing among the flowers. | |
| The situation is growing serious. | |
| noun | |
| The economy of Aomori Prefecture depends heavily on apple growing. | |
| He can hear the grass growing. | |
| We hear the tree falling but not the forest growing. | |
| Is Algeria's economy growing? | |