Growth
[grəʊθ] or [ɡroθ]
Definition
(noun.) vegetation that has grown; 'a growth of trees'; 'the only growth was some salt grass'.
(noun.) something grown or growing; 'a growth of hair'.
(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'.
(noun.) a progression from simpler to more complex forms; 'the growth of culture'.
(noun.) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor).
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Definition
(n.) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.
(n.) That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Increase, expansion, development.[2]. Produce, product.[3]. Advancement, advance, progress, improvement.
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Examples
- Being merely sheltered by others would not promote growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There seems to be a _limit of growth_ for every kind of living thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These conditions, stated in an orderly sequence, would constitute the method or way or manner of its growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The reader will naturally be disposed to ask whether it is intended to claim that Edison has brought about all this magnificent growth of the electric-lighting art. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lower levels of the Mesozoic land were no doubt covered by great fern brakes and shrubby bush and a kind of jungle growth of trees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What other changes have come upon me, besides the changes in my growth and looks, and in the knowledge I have garnered all this while? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That the United States has from the beginning far outstripped the rest of the civilized world in the growth of the telephone is shown by comparison. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Habits as Expressions of Growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As boracic acid is but slightly soluble in water and other common solvents this combination with glycerine--which is also a useful agent in arresting the growth of germs--is peculiarly valuable. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Indeed, the period seems a grand climax of discovery, rather than an increment of growth. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Although twenty-one years of age, and of full growth, the phonograph is ever a wonderfully new and impressive device. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Is it for this that we are asked to throw away the civilization which is the growth of ages? Plato. The Republic.
- The average rate of industrial growth in the United States is 10 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Three antagonistic growths had to be kept alive: his mother's trust in him, his plan for becoming a teacher, and Eustacia's happiness. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Natural philosophers, chemists, inventors, mechanics, all now pressed forward, and still press forward to improve the art, to establish new growths from the old art, and extend its domains. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The streams were numerous, deep and sluggish, sometimes spreading out into swamps grown up with impenetrable growths of trees and underbrush. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- An increasing harvest of rich personalities is the social reward for a fine statesmanship, but such personalities are free growths in a cordial environment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There were some cold intervals, it is true; but they did not last long enough to destroy the growths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was a mixture of growths and accumulations entirely different from anything that has ever been called an empire before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Decidedly I am an old stalk, he thought, the young growths are pushing me aside. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Some people find it difficult to breathe through the nostrils on account of growths, called adenoids, in the nose. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Trick machines of unwieldy strength were built secretly, and reapers were driven into growths of young trees, and were fastened together and then pulled apart to prove which was the stronger. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Intelligent expression is often lacking in children with adenoid growths. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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