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 growing ['grәuiŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 成长的

  1. The business is still suffering from growing pains.
    该企业在发展中仍面临许多难题。
  2. A town of south-central Scotland southeast of Glasgow. It was established in1946 as a new town to absorb the growing population of Glasgow. Population, 70,600.
    东基尔布莱德苏格兰中南部一城镇,位于格拉斯哥东南方,1946年为吸引格拉斯哥增长的人口而建立。人口70,600
  3. Growing along the river are tall palm trees.
    沿着这条河生长的是高大的棕 树。


growing
[ noun ]
  1. (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

  2. <noun.process>
    he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
  3. (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state

  4. <noun.process>
[ adj ]
  1. relating to or suitable for growth

  2. <adj.pert>
    the growing season for corn
    good growing weather


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.

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 maturity 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 or 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.

{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.

growing \growing\ n.
the sequence of events involved in the development of an
organism.

Syn: growth, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis.
[WordNet 1.5]


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]

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]

  1. The stock market declined today in fairly quiet trading, pressured by growing talk of a recession amid ongoing concern about inflation.
  2. Florida's rich citrus growing region reported minor crop damage after the second night of record cold.
  3. This was triggered by the savings-and-loan crisis and growing investor fears about money center banks, as many banks pulled back from issuing higher and higher interest rates.
  4. "Lechmere is growing and profitable and we are pleased that the company will continue to serve its customers," Allbright said.
  5. "There's a feeling in the industry that growing generic competition and a recent trend in high-volume purchasing of drugs by insurers is going to eventually choke off the ability to raise prices," he says.
  6. He relished his wife, delighted in her pregnancies, and viewed his growing brood with immense satisfaction.
  7. Inventory rebuilding, capital spending, and stable consumer demand will continue to keep the economy growing, says Michael Sherman, chief investment strategist at Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc.
  8. We see the car as an American car." The company saw the growing demand in Japan and "thought that it probably would sell," he said.
  9. After the figures were given, analysts lifted full-year forecasts to around Pounds 209m. Television shares were boosted by growing optimism that the government will not oppose mergers within the industry.
  10. Short interest in OTC stocks rose 4.2% in the month ended Aug. 15, reflecting a growing pessimism about the market's larger issues.
  11. But even as President Bush offered his prescription for the economy in last night's State of the Union address, the growing refrain among local leaders is: "We can't wait for Washington."
  12. Basil also has a growing following.
  13. Nearly half of the company's sales, or about $80 million, came from its growing NordicTrack business.
  14. The year-long study by Hartford Seminary's Center for Social and Religious Research was prompted by growing concern over a clergy shortage.
  15. Resentment of the United States has been growing for years in Honduras.
  16. Many have adopted export-led structural adjustment programs and if a recession, however mild, is added to the growing trend in trade protectionism in the West, those programs could stumble and fall.
  17. According to Stephen Goldsbrough, chairman of the Canal Boat Builders Association, the market is growing at a pace to make the recession-hit marine industry envious.
  18. "This is the fastest growing area of the world.
  19. There appears to be growing sentiment in Congress to plug this loophole, while giving regulators more time to determine the potential competitive impact of proposed takeovers.
  20. Ironically as the country struggles with the effect of growing capital inflows, the deal which reduces Poland's overall indebtedness to Dollars 38bn should lead to foreign investment worth an additional Dollars 1bn a year.
  21. He talks too about being married for 42 years, and his five children, all of whom, he says, "came home every night" while they were growing up.
  22. Based on number of stores, the acquisition ranks as the largest for Blockbuster, which has been growing at a torrid pace in recent years.
  23. Today it's a megacity of 12 million people and growing.
  24. The RISC microprocessors are at the heart of a growing number of workstations.
  25. Worries that the Air France strike would spill over into other areas of the public sector were compounded by growing doubts over the leadership of Mr Edouard Balladur, the Conservative prime minister.
  26. Rather, they are the result of a growing consensus that mediation works and should be improved in order to ensure it works even better.
  27. After the spinoff, RLC will retain its truck rental and leasing business, which has been the faster growing and more profitable part of the company.
  28. It shows the economy growing at an annual rate of 0.3% in the second quarter, 2.0% in the third quarter and 2.8% in the fourth quarter.
  29. The IAAO's Mr. Eckert hopes states soon will adopt licensing laws and tougher regulations dealing with this growing industry.
  30. Sun's explosive growth in the white-collar segment comes largely at the expense of makers of personal computers and represents a threat to Compaq Computer Corp. and Apple Computer Inc., both of which are growing at sharply slower rates than Sun.
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