'Growing' definitions:

Definition of 'growing'

From: WordNet
adjective
Relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather"
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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]
noun
(electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

Definition of 'Growing'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. [1913 Webster]
  • Winter began to grow fast on. --Knolles. [1913 Webster]
  • Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Where law faileth, error groweth. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale. [1913 Webster]
  • For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere. [1913 Webster]
  • Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'growing'

From: GCIDE
  • growing \growing\ n. the sequence of events involved in the development of an organism.
  • Syn: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis. [WordNet 1.5]

Definition of 'growing'

From: GCIDE
  • growing \growing\ adj.
  • 1. increasing in intensity of some quality. [prenominal]
  • Syn: increasing(prenominal), incremental. [WordNet 1.5]
  • 2. increasing in size or amount; as, her growing popularity. [WordNet 1.5]
  • 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]

Definition of 'growing'

From: GCIDE
  • increasing \increasing\ adj.
  • 1. becoming greater or larger; as, increasing prices. [Narrower terms: {accretionary ; {augmenting, augmentative, building ; {expanding ; {flared, flaring ; {growing ; {incorporative ; {lengthening ; {maximizing ; {multiplicative ; {profit-maximizing ; {raising ; {accretive ; {rising ] decreasing [WordNet 1.5]
  • 2. same as growing, 1. [prenominal]
  • Syn: growing(prenominal), incremental. [WordNet 1.5]
  • 3. (Music) increasing in some musical quality. Opposite of decreasing. [Narrower terms: {accelerando ; {crescendo ] [WordNet 1.5]

Synonyms of 'growing'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Growing'