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UK
/ɡɹˈəʊɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or suitable for growth
good growing weather
the growing season for corn
NOUN
- (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state
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(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
How To Use growing In A Sentence
- The extended period of damage was probably brought on by the cool/wet growing conditions.
- The look lasts around 24 hours before the saline is absorbed into the body and is part of the growing Japanese body modification scene. The Sun
- Human relations do not always rely on meeting each other in person every day. When we talk about relationships between people on either side of the border, just a few thousand miles can’t keep love from growing and blooming into a beautiful bonding. Gulzar
- FEARS were growing for a missing schoolgirl after police found her phone dumped in a park. The Sun
- It was growing increasingly obvious as I defended myself against her attack that she was simply toying with me, drawing out my technique as a schoolmaster draws recitations from his students.
- As a youngster growing up a small Mississippi town, Bob Dudley was a swimming prodigy with one of the speediest backstrokes in the state. New BP boss Bob Dudley 'doesn't need to fake his empathy for the Gulf coast'
- Pressure has been intensified by a number of high-profile libel cases and a growing realisation the legal costs in such cases are completely ruinous.
- We now read that men are to be targeted with a range of pink summer wearables by the high-street fashion chains 'cashing in' on the growing phenomenon of ' metrosexuality.
- We are trialling it for commercial growing for the first time in this country.
- It seems the interest in an intelligent house is rapidly growing.