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growing meaning

EN[ˈɡɹoʊɪŋ] [ˈɡɹəʊɪŋ] [-əʊɪŋ]
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WGrowing
  • Growing may refer to:
  • Growth
  • Growing (band), a noise band based in Brooklyn, New York
  • Growing (album), a 2007 album by the instrumental rock band Sleeping People

    Definition of growing in English Dictionary

  • NounPLgrowingsSUF-ing
    1. growth; increase.
    2. Verb
      1. present participle of grow.
      2. Adjective
        1. That grows.
          1. From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. [ …]   But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
        2. Connected with growing.
          1. Growing season here begins in March. ‎
      3. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • “Over there I'm growing Lumper,” he tells us as we look across potato rows growing between poplar windbreaks.
          • But in Chicago now, the boxes are part of IPAS, which is growing as fast as Bell can add boxes in its subcenters.
          • Subirrigation is used in growing field crops such as tomatoes, peppers, and sugar cane in areas with high water tables, such as Florida, and in commercial greenhouse operations.
        2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Uncomparable adjectives
          • Nouns
            • Countable nouns
            • Verbs
              • Verb forms
                • Participles
                  • Present participles
            Related Links:
            1. en growings
            2. en growingly
            3. en growing on
            4. en growing up
            5. en growing out
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of growing for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "growing" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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