growing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: growing	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
growing adj relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather" n (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" Synonym(s): growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis Antonym(s): nondevelopment (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.