Growing

Definition: Growing

Growing

Adjective

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".

3. Relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for corn"; "good growing weather".

Noun

1. 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".

2. (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "growing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Medicine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Growing

Crosswords: Growing

Thanks. It comes from growing up in a rough neighborhood (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

A shadow and a threat have been growing in my mind (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Andy's growing up, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's your choice, Woody (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter)

What's the worst part about growing old (The Straight Story; writing credit: John Roach; Mary Sweeney)

You have passion, Alejandro, and your skill is growing. But to enter Montero's world, I must give you something which is completely beyond yor reach (The Mask of Zorro; writing credit: Johnston McCulley; Ted Elliott)

My body's growing cold, (Loser; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

It's growing in the street right up through the concrete (Spanish Harlem; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

And his eyes are growing old (Leader Of The Band; performing artist: Dan Fogelberg)

If along the way you are growing weary, you can rest with me until a brighter (Where Are You Going; performing artist: Dave Matthews Band)

And keep me growing (Music; performing artist: Erick Sermon)

1968: Growing pot. 1998: Growing pot belly. (references; author: unknown)

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. (references; author: unknown)

Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. (references; author: unknown)

A person's character and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding that was done during the growing season. (references; author: unknown)

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it has stopped snowing. (references; author: unknown)

Growing Pains (1963)

Four Centuries of Growing Pains (1957)

You're Growing Up (1956)

Growing Wings (1956)

The Growing Paynes (1948)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul - 101 Stories of Changes, Choices and Growing Up for Kids, ages 10-13 (reference)

• French Wines: The Essential Guide to the Wines and Wine Growing Regions of France (reference)

• Welcome to Addy's World, 1864: Growing Up During America's Civil War (American Girls Collection (Cloth)) (reference)

• My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story (reference)

• You and the New World Order: How You Can Influence the Alarming and Growing International and Domestic Problems (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Coopers & Lybrand Growing Your Business (reference)

• Growing Business (reference)

• Growing Churches (reference)

• Growing Families (reference)

• Growing For Market (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Growing Up Well - Hey, What About Me? A Kid's Video Guide for Brothers & Sisters of New Babies (reference)

• Growing Up Well - Kids Get Cooking the Egg: A Kid's Video Guide to Food and Cooking (reference)

• Growing Up Well - Paws, Claws, Feathers & Fins: A Kid's Video Guide to Pets (reference)

• Hemp Hemp Hooray! The Growing Industrial Hemp Market (reference)

• Rolie Polie Olie - Growing Upsie Daisy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Growing Minds with Music: Hymns & Bible Songs (reference)

• Growing, Pains (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured is a laboratory setting. A technician wearing a white lab coat and head covering, rubber gloves, is holding a large glass roller bottle and looking into it. A red liquid is visible in the tilted roller bottle. This process is the growing of monoclonal antibodies. They can be grown in unlimited quantities in bottles in the lab. Several shots available. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Shown are laboratory flasks. Recently scientists have learned to make interferon in bacteria, growing such microorganisms on simple nutrients in flasks, as shown. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Blood smear showing growing trophozoite of Plasmodium vivax. Parasite. Credit: CDC.

The trophozoites represent stages in the Plasmodium spp. life cycle, right after a blood or liver cell has been infected by a sporozoite. This image shows an erythrocyte as a growing trophozoite. Credit: CDC.

Billy after growing up being fed by Leo O. Colbert. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Silver sword growing on Mt. Haleakala. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Cactus growing south of the Kohala Mountains just a few miles from tropical rainforest. Cattle on the Parker Ranch grazing in the distance. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Ice crystals growing in a small crevasse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Lieutenant Bortniak at the controls. Already growing a nice set of whiskers. Exploring the wreck of a Hercules C-130 at the end of the runway. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Plants after the first growing season now into the second growing season. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Thus, whether a family by degrees grew up into a common-wealth, and the fatherly authority being continued on to the elder son, every one in his turn growing up under it, tacitly submitted to it, and the easiness and equality of it not offending any one, every one acquiesced, till time seemed to have confirmed it, and settled a right of succession by prescription: or whether several families, or the descendants of several families, whom chance, neighbourhood, or business brought together, uniting into society, the need of a general, whose conduct might defend them against their enemies in war, and the great confidence the innocence and sincerity of that poor but virtuous age, (such as are almost all those which begin governments, that ever come to last in the world) gave men one of another, made the first beginners of commonwealths generally put the rule into one man's hand, without any other express limitation or restraint, but what the nature of the thing, and the end of government required: which ever of those it was that at first put the rule into the hands of a single person, certain it is no body was intrusted with it but for the public good and safety, and to those ends, in the infancies of commonwealths, those who had it commonly used it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Meantime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. (reference)

All property, rights and interests of German nationals within the territory of any Allied or Associated Power and the net proceeds of their sale, liquidation or other dealing therewith may be charged by that Allied or Associated Power in the first place with payment of amounts due in respect of claims by the nationals of that Allied or Associated Power with regard to their property, rights and interests, including companies and associations in which they are interested, in German territory, or debts owing to them by German nationals, and with payment of claims growing out of acts committed by the German Government or by any German authorities since July 31, 1914, and before that Allied or Associated Power entered into the war. (reference)

Above all, we welcome constant, frequent and growing contacts between the Russian people and our own people on both sides of the Atlantic. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Her father was growing nervous, and could not understand her.

The situation of Wellington was growing worse

White houses stood in the greenery, roses growing over them

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

No one knows why the nerve cells stop growing. (references)

In most cases, bacteria first begin growing in the urethra. (references)

Such tissue also presents fewer obstacles to growing axons. (references)

Business

Wind turbines are a rapidly growing field. (references)

The charge card segment is growing steadily. (references)

Bowling centers are slowly growing in number. (references)

Children

Kiribati

Child abuse is a growing problem, particularly on South Tarawa. (references)

Fiji

Outgrowths of these changes include increased child abuse and a growing number of homeless youths in urban areas. (references)

Czech Republic

There are a growing number of bus lines that are accessible to persons with disabilities; tram lines in Plzen are wheelchair accessible. (references)

Civil Liberties

Azerbaijan

Usage is growing, particularly in Baku, which has a number of small Internet cafes. (references)

India

A vigorous and growing press reflects a wide variety of political, social, and economic beliefs. (references)

Botswana

The independent press is small but growing and has a long tradition of vigorous, candid, and unimpeded discourse. (references)

Economic History

Albania

Foreign direct investment is growing. (references)

Botswana

U.S. investment in Botswana is growing. (references)

Chile

Internet use in Chile is growing rapidly. (references)

Human Rights

Brunei

There is no overcrowding; however, there is a growing prison population. (references)

Indonesia

Kidnaping of children for ransom is a recent and reportedly growing phenomenon. (references)

Eritrea

The special court system ostensibly was created to reduce a growing backlog in the civilian court system. (references)

Indigenous People

El Salvador

As with the poor rural sector in general, access to land is a growing problem confronting indigenous people. (references)

Minorities

Macau

The Chinese language received official status in 1993, and the use of Chinese in the civil service is growing. (references)

Comoros

Islamic fundamentalism is growing in popularity as more students return to the country after studying Islamic subjects in foreign countries. (references)

Political Economy

PANAMA

They are growing sporadically depending on location. (references)

Albania

The U.S. and Albania enjoy a strong and growing bilateral relationship. (references)

Georgia

There was a growing fiscal deficit due to continued low revenue collection. (references)

Political Rights

Cambodia

Although growing in influence, the legislature remained weak in comparison with the executive branch. (references)

Madagascar

The elections since the 1998 revision of the Constitution have seen the growing dominance of the President and his political party, AREMA. (references)

Liechtenstein

The percentage of women in government and politics does not correspond to their percentage in the population, although a growing number of women are active in politics. (references)

Trade

Spain

Nonetheless, demand for products that meet these standards is growing. (references)

Uae

The development in the GCC of projects seeking financing is growing ever broader. (references)

Germany

Organic Products: There is a growing market within Germany for certified organic products. (references)

Travel

Poland

Violent crime remains rare, but is growing. (references)

Taiwan

Establishments serving other Asian cuisines can also be found in growing numbers in Taipei. (references)

Barbados

Barbados is experiencing a growing problem with dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral illness. (references)

Women

China

Sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS is a growing concern. (references)

Latvia

Women's advocacy groups are growing in size and number. (references)

New Zealand

Violence against women is a serious and growing problem. (references)

Worker Rights

Netherlands

The white-collar unions' membership is the fastest growing. (references)

Indonesia

NGO findings indicate a growing trend in child prostitution and sexual exploitation. (references)

Zambia

The problem has been compounded by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which has produced a growing number of orphans. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Growing

Growing hope

Growing of a tooth

Expressions using "growing": be growing tame ♦ cotton growing ♦ fruit growing ♦ growing age ♦ Growing cell ♦ growing fat ♦ growing grain ♦ growing old ♦ growing on ♦ growing pains ♦ growing period ♦ growing profits ♦ growing season ♦ Growing slide ♦ growing slowly ♦ growing smaller ♦ growing stock ♦ growing up ♦ growing white ♦ it is growing light ♦ rice growing ♦ the growing season ♦ wine growing. Additional references.

Beginning with "growing": growing-on, growing-pains, growing-points, growing-rules, growing-season, growing-together, growing-up.

Ending with "growing": cereal-growing, coca-growing, cocoa-growing, coffee-growing, corn-growing, crop-growing, faster-growing, fruit-growing, grain-growing, low-growing, quick-growing, rapidly-growing, rice-growing, rose-growing, slower-growing, strong-growing, vegetable-growing, vine-growing, wine-growing.

Albanian

që shtohet (proliferous), që rritet (increscent), që prodhon. (various references)

Arabic 

‏يكبر, ‏منبت (birthplace, matrix, origin), ‏متزايد (increasing, mounting, rising, swelling), ‏نامي (processing, rising), ‏نبت (germinate, spring, sprout, sprung, vegetate), ‏زيادة (addition, augment, augmentation, boost, enhancement, excess, expansion, increase, increment, over, overflow, overmuch, plethora, plus, raise, redundance, redundancy, rise, superfluity, top up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

растящ (ongoing, rising, strong), растене (vegetation), непрестанен (ceaseless, constant, continual, hourly, incessant, steady, unending, unremitting), нарастващ (accretive, accumulative, augmentative, cumulative, excrescent, rising), порастване (vegetation). (various references)

Chinese 

生长 (Cradled, Cradling). (various references)

Czech

zvyšující se (increasing), rostoucí. (various references)

Danish

opdraetning (raising, rearing, stock farming, stockrearing), opdraet (animal to be reared, raising, rearer, rearing, stock farming, stockrearing), kultur (culture). (various references)

Dutch

veeteelt (raising, rearing, stock farming, stockrearing), opfok (raising, rearing, stock farming, stockrearing), cultuur (culture). (various references)

Finnish

kasvatus (breeding, education, raising, rearing, training, upbringing). (various references)

French

grandissant, qui développe, qui augmente, naissant, en croissance, culture, croissant, croissance (growth), appel, élevage. (various references)

German

züchtung (breed, breeding, cultivation, culture, education, keeping, synthesis, variety), wachsend (accumulative, adolescent, deepening, developing, expanding, increasing, waxing). (various references)

Greek 

που μεγαλώωει, εκτροφή (raising, rearing, stock farming, stockrearing), αυξάνων (increscent). (various references)

Hebrew 

גובר, גדל (grow, increasing), צומח. (various references)

Hungarian

termelõ (generative, producer, productive), termõ (fertile), növekvõ (ascendant, Crescent, increscent, issuant), növekedés (accession, accretion, augmentation, gain, growth, heightening, increase, increment, rise, upgrowth, vegetating), erősödő (intensifying, rising, swelling). (various references)

Indonesian

penganggrekan (orchid growing), bergodek (growing side burn). (various references)

Italian

coltura (cultivation, culture, farming, Tilling). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

生生 (growing up, lively), 奥手 (late blooming flowers, late crops, late growing rice), 偕老 (growing old together), 共白髪 (growing old together), 成長期 (growing season, growth period), 悪化 (aggravation, corruption, degeneration, deterioration, growing worse), 浅茅生 (broad field of sparsely growing cogon grass), 族生 (growing gregariously, growing in clusters), 期待が膨らむ (expectations are growing), 晩稲 (late blooming flowers, late crops, late growing rice), 晩生 (late blooming flowers, late crops, late growing rice), 増長 (becoming arrogant, growing impudent), 果樹園芸 (fruit growing), 菊作り (chrysanthemum growing), 直出 (growing straight down, shooting straight out), 簇生 (growing gregariously, growing in clusters), 羽化 (emergence, growing wings and flying), 白白 (clear, growing light, pale), 育成栽培 (vegetable and fruit growing), 髪置き (ceremony for child growing hair long), 関心が高まる (to take a growing interest in), 食べ盛り (growing child's hearty appetite), 自生 (growing wild, native), 老来 (since growing old), 果樹栽培 (fruit growing, pomiculture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かいろう (corridor, gallery, growing old together), ともしらが (growing old together), じせい (conditions, death, death poem, growing wild, homemade, magnetism, native, passing away, reflection, self control, self restraint, self-examination, spirit of the age, tense, the times, trends), あっか (aggravation, bad money, bad results, corruption, degeneration, deterioration, growing worse), ろうらい (since growing old), あさじう (broad field of sparsely growing cogon grass), いくせいさいばい (vegetable and fruit growing), かみおき (ceremony for child growing hair long), かじゅえんげい (fruit growing), ちょくしゅつ (growing straight down, shooting straight out), かんしんがたかまる (to take a growing interest in), ぞくせい (attribute, context, earthly life, growing gregariously, growing in clusters, secular surname, this world), せいちょうき (growing season, growth period), せいせい (accurately, create, due west, exactly, feel refreshed, feel relieved, form, generate, growing up, lively, neatly, punctually, purification, symmetrical), ばんとう (clerk, late blooming flowers, late crops, late growing rice, late winter), うか (emergence, growing wings and flying), しらじら (growing light, pale), きくづくり (chrysanthemum growing), おくて (late blooming flowers, late crops, late growing rice), たべざかり (growing child's hearty appetite), ぞうちょう (becoming arrogant, collection of additional taxes, growing impudent), かじゅさいばい (fruit growing, pomiculture). (various references)

Korean 

성장 (growth). (various references)

Manx

gaase (accretive, develop), aasoil (vegetative), aasagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

owinggray.(various references)

Portuguese

cultura (accomplishments, civilization, culture, erudition, germination, growth, niceness, scholarship). (various references)

Romanian

culturã (breeding, civility, crop, cultivation, culture, education, growth, letter, rearing), crescãtor (breeder, grazier), crescând (increasing, rising), creştere (accretion, accrual, addition, aggrandizement, augmentation, development, education, enlargement, farming, fosterage, gain, growth, heft, husbandry, increase, increment, jump, nurse, nurture, propagation, rise, rising, upbringing, upsurge), în creştere (cumulative, incoming, on the increase, rising). (various references)

Russian 

усиливающийся, способствующий росту, растущий, возрастающий (escalating, incremental, rising). (various references)

Scottish

fòlach (rank grass growing on dunghills), cinneas (crop, growing thing, growth, increase). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gajenje (fostering), koji raste. (various references)

Spanish

que se desarrolla, que está creciendo, que crece, cultivo (crop, cultivation, culture, farming, planting), crianza (breeding, mannerliness, nurture, upbringing), crecimiento (cultivation, evolution, flooding, growth, increase, inflation, upgrowth), creciente (Crescent, increasing, rising, waxing), cría (baby, breeding, brood, calf, junior, litter, young). (various references)

Swedish

växande (Crescent, cumulative, vegetative). (various references)

Turkish

gelişme (advance, advancement, amelioration, budding, development, expansion, flourish, formative, growth, headway, improvement, inflorescence, pickup, progress, strides), gelişen (booming, Crescent, developing, progressive, rising, thriving), yetiştirme (breeding, cultivation, culture, edification, nurture, upbringing), tarım (agrarian, agricultural, agriculture, cultivation, farming, husbandry, tillage, tilth), büyüyen (expanding, sprawling, thriving, yawning), büyüme (accretion, accrual, augmentation, development, enlargement, expansion, growth, increase, juvenescence), artan (accelerating, leftover, odd, remaining, residual, residuary, surplus, surplusage, upgrade), çoğalan (increasing, spawning). (various references)

Ukrainian

ріст (growth, plant, shoot, upgrowth), вирощування (growth, nurture), зростаючий (increasing, rising, up), зростання (access, accession, accretion, concrescence, development, expansion, increase, upgrowth, upturn, vegetation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự trồng, sự lớn lên sự nuôi. (various references)

Welsh

tyfadwy, cynyddol (increasing). (various references)

aquatica. (various references)

vegetabilis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "growing": growingly. (additional references)

Words ending with "growing": ingrowing, misgrowing, nongrowing, outgrowing, overgrowing, regrowing, upgrowing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Growing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agrowing, gnowing, Gowin, gowing, gowrings, Groting, Grwyne, Guoqiang, trowing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: goring, gringo, rowing.

-2 letters: giron, going, groin, grown, owing, wring, wrong.

-3 letters: girn, giro, gong, gown, grig, grin, grog, grow, inro, iron, nogg, noir, nori, ring, wing, wino, worn.

-4 letters: gig, gin, gor, ion, nog, nor, now, own, rig, rin, row, wig, win, wog, won.

-5 letters: go, in, no, on, or, ow, wo.

+1 letter: growling, wronging.

+2 letters: glowering, growingly, ingrowing, reglowing, regrowing, upgrowing.

+3 letters: growlingly, misgrowing, nongrowing, outgrowing, wrongdoing.

+4 letters: downgrading, overgrowing, roughhewing, songwriting, wrongdoings.

+5 letters: ghostwriting, overswinging, overweighing, songwritings, warmongering, waterlogging.