Growing Pains

  

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Growing Pains

Definitions: Growing Pains

Growing Pains

Noun

1. Pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth.

2. Emotional distress arising during adolescence.

3. Problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages).

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


Modern Usage: Growing Pains

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Growing Pains (1963)

Four Centuries of Growing Pains (1957)

Growing Pains (1953)

The Growing Pains of PC Penrose (1975)

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

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Specialty Definition: Growing pains

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Growing pains is a term used to describe certain physiological symptoms common in children.

Growing pains typically occur in two periods during a child's life, firstly, between about 3 and 5 years old, then later in 8 to 12 year olds. The symptoms are of general aches and pains, usually in the limbs (mostly the legs). Generally, they are diagnosed only by excluding any other more serious causes.

Though the pain is often clear, there is very little actual evidence that the rapid growth of bones should cause pain. It is likely, therefore, that the pain arises from the general activities of the child at these ages, that is, running, jumping and falling over. Growing pains tend to strike at night time, adding further weight to this hypothesis. Also, children complaining of growing pains often respond well to cuddling and affection, which contrasts with the reaction of children with more serious illnesses who tend to shun contact since handling often increases the pain.

External link

There was also an ABC sitcom called Growing Pains.




Growing Pains

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Growing Pains was a television sitcom that ran on the American ABC network from 1985 until 1992.

External link

For the medical phenomenon, see growing pains

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Growing pains."

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Commercial Usage: Growing Pains

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Adrian Mole Diaries : The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 : The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (reference)

  • Growing Pains : Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Nova: Life's First Feelings - Growing Pains (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Growing Pains

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Don't make your growing pains labor pains. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Growing Pains

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

WARNING SIGNS OF A DRINKING PROBLEM While the following behaviors may indicate an alcohol or other drug problem, some also reflect normal teenage growing pains. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

As a country in the initial stages of democracy, Indonesia is experiencing all the accompanying growing pains. (references)

Political Economy

Honduras

Although the subordination of the HOAF has experienced growing pains, the process continues and reforms are being institutionalized. (references)

URUGUAY

MERCOSUR has been facing serious growing pains for the last three years, which seriously increased trade and political disputes amongst its partners. (references)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Growing Pains

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Modern Translations: Growing Pains

Language Translations for "growing pains"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

potíže rùstu. (various references)

   

Danish

  

vokseværk. (various references)

   

French

  

douleurs de croissance. (various references)

   

German

  

Wachstumsschmerz. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dolori della crescenza. (various references)

   

Manx

  

guinyn-aase. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owinggray ainspay

   

Russian 

  

болезнь роста. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

växtvärk. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gelişme dönemi ağrıları, büyüme sancıları. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Growing Pains

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-g-i-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-w"

-2 letters: organising.

-3 letters: agonising, ingrowing, prisoning, signorina, spraining, springing.

-4 letters: aproning, aspiring, gnawings, graining, grasping, groaning, groining, ignoring, ingrains, ironings, nigrosin, pairings, pargings, praising, pranging, prawning, pronging, rosining, sparging, spawning, sponging, swinging, wagoning, warnings, wingspan, wringing, wronging.

-5 letters: airings, arising, aspirin, awnings, gaining, gasping, gawping, girning, gnawing, gowning, gringos, griping, groping, growing, ingoing, ingrain, ingrown.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Growing Pains


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 72 6F 77 69 6E 67      50 61 69 6E 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01110010 01101111 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010000 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#114 &#111 &#119 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#80 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0072 006F 0077 0069 006E 0067      0050 0061 0069 006E 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4184818975807325067758085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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