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growing
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[ adjective ] increasing in size or degree or amount
Examples "her growing popularity" "growing evidence of a world depression" "a growing city" "growing businesses" Used in print (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)Just as present technology had to await the explanations of physics , so one might expect that social invention will follow growing sociological understanding . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)Piepsam tries to stop him by force , receives a push in the chest from `` Life '' , and is left standing in impotent and growing rage , while a crowd begins to gather . (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)The growing contacts between Aegean and Orient are also a phase which should be linked primarily to the remarkable broadening of Hellenic culture after 750 . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)It was because of this chain-reaction as_much_as for any other reason - that_is , because of the growing independence of the planar unit in collage as a shape - that the identity of depicted_objects , or at_least parts of them , re-emerged in Braque 's and Picasso 's papiers colles and continued to remain more conspicuous there - but only as flattened silhouettes - than in any of their paintings done wholly in oil before the end of 1913 . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)But it had largely disappeared on_account_of protest by the whites and through growing resentment on_the_part_of the Negroes as they became more educated and got better wages . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (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
Synonyms Examples "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Mike remained in trance ; there was much to grok , loose_ends to puzzle_over and fit into his growing - all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel_Foster_Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face_to_face alone ) - why Bishop_Senator_Boone made him warily uneasy , how Miss_Dawn_Ardent tasted like a water_brother when she was not , the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping_up_and_down and wailing - In the other hemisphere it is growing colder and nymphs , those who stayed alive through the summer , are being brought into nests for quickening and more growing '' . Related terms nondevelopment organic_process proliferation rooting blossoming culture cohesion fructification auxesis cenogenesis gametogenesis germination spermatogenesis intussusception infructescence suppression amelogenesis life_cycle foliation angiogenesis apposition juvenescence psychomotor_development morphogenesis myelinisation neurogenesis psychosexual_development masculinization dentition teratogenesis oogenesis cytogenesis palingenesis vegetation gastrulation isometry biology grow grow mature age |
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[ adjective ] having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life
Synonyms Examples "flourishing crops" "flourishing chicks" "a growing boy" "fast-growing weeds" "a thriving deer population" Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)He concluded that in the southern species , which are rapidly growing types , females mate at the age of two and a half and bear the first young when they are three . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
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[ adjective ] relating to or suitable for growth
Examples "the growing season for corn" "good growing weather" Related terms |
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