English to Persian Dictionary Online
Definition of "growth"

growth

Từ điển Collocation

growth noun

¹ increase in sth

ADJ. considerable, dramatic, enormous, exponential, impressive, phenomenal, significant, spectacular, strong, tremendous the exponential growth in world population | explosive, fast, rapid the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1990s | modest, slow, steady The factory has achieved a steady growth in output. | low a vicious circle of low growth and low productivity | long-term | economic, industrial | population

VERB + GROWTH achieve | maintain, sustain | encourage, promote, stimulate | control new measures to control the growth of traffic on the roads

GROWTH + NOUN rate The economy enjoyed the highest growth rate in Asia. | area, industry Communications technology has proved to be a growth area.

PREP. ~ in There was a rapid growth in the numbers of private cars.

PHRASES a rate of growth > Special page at BUSINESS

² growing

ADJ. healthy, normal A good diet is vital for healthy growth. | excessive the excessive growth of algae in rivers | intellectual, personal, spiritual

VERB + GROWTH encourage Give the plants a good pruning to encourage growth. | stunt Lack of food had stunted his growth.

GROWTH + NOUN hormone

³ abnormal lump in the body

ADJ. cancerous, malignant | benign

VERB + GROWTH have

PREP. ~ on He had a cancerous growth on his lung.

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• (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; growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis

  he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children

• a progression from simpler to more complex forms

  the growth of culture

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; increase, increment

  the increase in unemployment

  the growth of population

• vegetation that has grown

  a growth of trees

  the only growth was some salt grass

• the gradual beginning or coming forth; emergence, outgrowth

  figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece

• (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
• something grown or growing

  a growth of hair

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

growths
syn.: development emergence growing increase increment maturation ontogenesis ontogeny outgrowth