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  growing \growing\ n.
     the sequence of events involved in the development of an
     organism.
  
     Syn: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis.
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  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.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     4. p. pr. of grow (definition 3); as, growing plants.
        [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

  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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  Grow \Grow\, v. i. [imp. Grew; p. p. Grown ; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Growing.] [AS. grawan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. groa,
     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 matturity 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 of 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.

  growing
       adj 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"
       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, maturation,
             development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]
       2: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by
          slow crystallization from the molten state

  growing
     n.
     1 growth; increase
     2 (qualifier: attributive) Connected with growing
     vb.
     (present participle of en grow nocat=1)

  growing
     n.
     1 growth; increase
     2 (qualifier: attributive) Connected with growing
     vb.
     (present participle of en grow nocat=1)

  growing
     n.
     1 growth; increase
     2 (qualifier: attributive) Connected with growing
     vb.
     (present participle of en grow nocat=1)

  growing
     n.
     1 growth; increase
     2 (qualifier: attributive) Connected with growing
     vb.
     (present participle of en grow nocat=1)

  growing
     Englanti n.
     kasvaminen
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm g row ing)

  growing
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en grow ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb grow)

  Growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  النمو

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  rostoucí

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  vzrůstající

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  narůstání

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  pěstování

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  Pflanzen anbauend, züchtend, kultivierend
     Synonym: cultivating plants
  
   see: grow, cultivate plants, grown, cultivated plants, grows, cultivates plants, grew, cultivated plants, grow flowers, cultivate vegetables, cultivate grain
  

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  anwachsend, wachsend, zunehmend
     Synonyms: increasing, accumulate
  
   see: grow, increase, accumulate, grown, increased, accumulated
  

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  wachsend
   see: grow, grown, you grow, I/he/she grew, grow indefinitely, regrow
  

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  wachsend, wüchsig  [bot.]
           Note: Pflanze
        "fast-growing"  - schnell wachsend, schnellwüchsig
        "quick-growing"  - schnell wachsend, schnellwüchsig
   see: grow strongly, have a high rate of growth, have a moderate rate of growth
  
           Note: plant

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  
  που μεγαλώωει, αυξάνων

  growing //ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ// //ˈɡɹəʊɪŋ// 
  1. kasvava, kasvu
  connected with growing
  2. kasvu
  growth; increase

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  porast, raste, rastenje

  growing /ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
  erôsödô

  
/ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ/

  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
  
  

  a. 成长的;
  vbl. 成长,生长;

     a. 生长的,不断增加的,适于成长的