growthn.1
/ɡrəʊθ/, U.S. /ɡroʊθ/ 1.
a. The action, process or manner of growing; both in material and immaterial senses; vegetative development; increase.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun]
waxingc1055
increasec1374
dilatationc1400
larging?a1425
magnification?a1425
bredingc1440
ampliation1509
enlarginga1513
dilating1532
ampliating1541
amplification1546
amplifying1553
propagation1563
enlargement1564
widening1569
growth1587
dilation1598
expatiation1612
diduction1634
expansion1635
extendinga1649
dispansion1658
elargement1680
expatiating1708
explicating1730
aggrandizement1772
extension1839
expanse1860
aggrandization1929
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
waxingc1055
increasingc1340
increasec1374
echinga1382
creasing1398
augmentinga1400
alarginga1425
moringa1425
augmentc1425
incrementc1425
creasec1440
increasement1509
enlarginga1513
enlargement1564
amplification1569
accession1570
usury1576
enhancement1577
growth1587
creasement1592
accrease1598
crescence1602
improvement1607
excrement1608
majoration1626
heightening1629
auction1692
turgescence1806
outgrowth1837
steepening1868
prolating1919
upgrading1920
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth
waxa1300
growing1390
upgrowing1430
grow1536
shooting1579
growth1587
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. viii. 117 Should we rather graunt an euerlasting ignorance in man, than a kynd of youthfulnesse which hath learned things according to the growths thereof in ages?
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H2 This bastard graffe shall neuer come to growth . View more context for this quotation
1598 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. Pref. sig. **1v The beginnings, antiquities, and grouth of the classical and warrelike shipping of this Island.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) x. 101 [My men] worse did beare Their growing labours; that they causd their grought [rhyme-wd. thought], By selfe-willd follies.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) v. ii. 14 When I haue pluckt the rose, I cannot giue it vitall growth againe, It must needes wither.
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius War with Vandals i. 19 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian The saltness of the water hindring the grouth of any thing but salt.
1662 Bk. Common Prayer Pref. The growth of Anabaptism.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 18 May (1974) VIII. 221 My wife, whose growth in music doth begin to please me mightily.
1680 W. Temple Ess. Cure of Gout in Miscellanea 201 In preventing the growth of this disease, where it is but new.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 7 Ivy being of no swift growth.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 60 The Growth of the Trees, and Hedges.
1781 W. Cowper Charity 578 Exuberant is the shadow it supplies, Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies.
1848 tr. Regnault's Elem. Treat. Crystallogr. 59 Sometimes the crystal assumes the form shewn... The growth of the crystal, perpendicularly to the horizontal faces, has been almost nothing.
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. (ed. 2) 23 Plants obtain the chief materials of their growth from water and carbonic acid.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. ix. 269 The snow which falls upon the glacier proper can contribute nothing to its growth or permanence.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 93 Barley, oats, and rye may be measured in their daily growth.
1873 Weale's Dict. Terms (ed. 4) Growth of water, in mining, the accumulation of water in the levels of a mine.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 276 Simultaneous with their [the faculties'] growth in man a growth of language must be supposed.
1891 Speaker 2 May 534/1 The growth of education and the spread of scientific training.
1911 Encycl. Brit. VII. 583/2 When crystals are aggregated together, and so interfere with each other's growth, special structures..often result.
1962 F. C. Phillips Smith's Gemstones (ed. 13) ii. 39 Natural crystals frequently depart from..ideally symmetrical growth and show instead a variable degree of distortion.
b. of (such or such) growth: having a specified place of origin or production. Said primarily of vegetable products, hence transferred of immaterial things.
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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > relating to native flora > having a specific place of origin
of (such or such) growth1657
the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [phrase] > having a specified origin
of (such or such) growth1657
1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 325 Resolved, that for every ton of wine, not of the growth of Spain, there be paid 6l.
1684 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 108 To ad to ye same bill, not being of the natural groath of the province.
1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Dv I had thought for the Honour of our Nation..that this Story was of English Growth, and Chaucer's own.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 515 Is virtue then, unless of Christian growth, Mere fallacy, or foolishness, or both?
1823 C. Lamb Artific. Comedy in Elia 329 Affection's depth and wedded faith are not of the growth of that soil.
1879 J. Grant in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 95/1 Specimens of plants, most of which were of foreign growth.
c. spec. in Economics. See also sense Compounds 2 (growth area, industry, etc.).
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > growth
economic growth1875
growth1952
1952 W. W. Rostow Process Econ. Growth (1953) iv. 81 Growth is defined as a relation between the rates of increase in capital and the working force,..and in population,..such that per capita output (not necessarily consumption) is rising.
1965 H. Wilson in Oxf. Times 3 Dec. 16/2 I am now fighting a losing battle on another word I dislike—growth—which had a certain medical and agricultural connotation. ‘Economic growth involves more purposeful work than leaving it to nature.’
d. A crop or yield as used in a classification of (esp. the best) vineyards to indicate the quality of the wine produced there. Cf. cru n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun]
race1630
growth1707
cru1824
designation1830
1707 London Gaz. No. 4333/8 To be sold an entire Parcel of New French..Claret..being of the Growth of Lafitt, Margouze, and La Tour.
1715 London Gaz. No. 5378/4. 200 Hogsheads of Claret, the best Growths in France.
1833 C. Redding Hist. Mod. Wines vi. 152 The first growths of Medoc are never sent to England in a perfect state.
1862 C. Tovey Wine & Wine Countries iv. 131 There are in Bordeaux Wines four estates, or growths, classed as first crûs or growths.
1920 G. Saintsbury Notes on Cellar-bk. iv. 53 It was customary..to lay down..hogsheads of the best reputed first or second growths.
1964 Harper's Bazaar Dec. 60/2 A claret of a bourgeois growth and a moderate price.
1965 A. Sichel Penguin Bk. Wines 135 The sixty-two best red wines were classified in 1855 by an official committee into five ‘growths’ or ‘crus’, known collectively as the Classed Growths, or Crus Classés.
1970 Times 18 Apr. p. vii/2 First it showed how exaggerated is the importance which some attach to the words ‘Great Classed Growth’.
2. Stage in the process of growing; size or stature attained by growing. Obsolete except in full growth.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > size or stature attained by growing
waxa1500
growth1557
the world > life > the body > bodily height > [noun] > maximum attained by growth
full growth1678
1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. Q.ii A graffe of so small grothe.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. I5v Swines Flesh. Nor olde, nor thinne; but of a full groweth.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 160 A wassel candle my lord, al tallow, if I did say of wax, my growth would approue the truth. View more context for this quotation
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 322 The Elephant is for growth and understanding chiefest, of unreasonable Animalls.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 147 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Serpents..of so extraordinary a growth, that there are Serpents have swallowed children and sheep intire.
1678 J. Dryden All for Love iv. 46 Men are but Children of a larger growth.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 54 An Ox is come to its full growth at 6 years old.
a1732 J. Gay Acis & Galatea ii. 13 Bring me a hundred Reeds of decent Growth, To make a Pipe for my capacious Mouth.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 115 Pride has attained its most luxuriant growth, And poisoned every virtue in them both.
1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xvii. 348 Between the shell and the exterior of the body, where they remain until the embryo attains its full growth.
3. The process of causing or assisting to grow; production by cultivation. Chiefly qualified by possessive pronoun. Also, the process of growing crystals: see grow v. 14f.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun]
governaila1400
husbanding?1440
nursing?1533
culture1580
cultivation1637
elevation1658
growth1663
rearing1693
growing1889
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 81 Chiron, the four-legg'd Bard, hath both A Beard and Tail of his own growth.
1697 J. Dryden Ded. Georgics in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶3 The happy Old Coricyan..whose Fruits and Salads..were all of his own growth, and his own Plantation.
1757 G. Shelvocke, Jr. Shelvocke's Voy. round World (ed. 2) iii. 116 Every family has all the necessaries of life of its own growth and produce.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 214 A yeoman class..could use these great levels for the growth of certain semi-tropical crops.
1950 Sci. News 15 56 A typical example of its use is..for the growth of metal crystals.
1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors iii. 40 Crystal growth by zone melting.
1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors iii. 40 Floating-zone crystal growth. The floating-zone refining process may also be used for the production of single crystals.
4. concrete.
a. That which grows or has grown; produce, product; said both of material and immaterial things.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > [noun] > that which has grown
springc1450
growth1580
flush1773
the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > produce, yield, or return
gettinga1382
increasingc1384
fruitc1450
increase1560
growth1580
increment1593
brood1600
return1614
produce1650
improvement1706
out-turn1801
bag1858
production1878
1580 Lease in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 236 Those their woods underwoods growths shawes.
1680 W. Temple Surv. Constit. of Empire in Wks. (1731) I. 89 The State of Holland, in point both of Riches and Strength, is the most prodigious Growth that has been seen in the World.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 7 Men seem the only growth that dwindles here.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 404 If any one part of the English system rather than another could be claimed as a modern growth, it is her foreign policy.
1873 W. M. Thomson Land & Bk. xiv. 199 Some of our missionary band..have counted the growths (as we Western people call the annual concentric circles) for a few inches into the trunk of the oldest cedars.
1876 E. Mellor Priesthood ii. 73 Sacerdotalism was a growth traceable to a concurrence of influences..some of which were wholly innocent.
1885 U. S. Grant Pers. Mem. I. xx. 273 Marshy ground covered with a heavy growth of timber.
1890 Daily News 14 Oct. 2/3 Hops contracted for some time previous to the picking of the growth.
b. Pathology. Often spec. a morbid formation.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun]
carnosity1559
outwaxing1562
mandrake1568
excrescence1578
sarcome1626
excrescency1641
glandule1656
sarcoma1657
superexcrescence1676
caruncle1722
wart1774
clavus1842
growth1849
adenoid1855
neoplasm1863
neoplasma1876
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 125/1 The property of infiltration has been ascribed to other Growths besides Cancer.
1899 J. Hutchinson Archives Surg. X. 182 His head was covered with papillomatosis growths in various stages.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
growth-condition n.
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1890 Daily News 12 Sept. 5/3 Grave men of science who are investigating..the growth conditions of fish in Scottish waters.
growth-control n.
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1964 New Statesman 20 Mar. 468/3 Calves..injected with growth-control substances.
growth-direction n.
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1916 Nature 1 June 290/2 The word ‘tropism’, first used to indicate the growth-direction of plant-members under the influence of some stimulus.
growth-hormone n.
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1924 T. B. Robertson Princ. Biochem. (ed. 2) xx. 579 Such catalyzers being distributed by the circulation and operating as growth-hormones.
1953 Sci. News 30 62 Acromegaly..is a condition caused by an excessive production of growth hormone in the adult.
1969 Times 25 Mar. 12/7 When growth hormone is injected into young rabbits the fleas are induced to copulate.
growth-measurer n.
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1924 J. A. Thomson Sci. Old & New xxxvi. 206 Growth-measurers (auxanometers).
growth-phase n.
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1915 P. Geddes Cities in Evol. xvii. 361 Our synoptic vision of the city, for each and all of its growth-phases, thus ranges through region to homes, and back again.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth i. 8 The weights of chela and rest-of-body..over the earlier and longer growth-phase.
growth-policy n.
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1960 Encounter Oct. 11/2 Growth-policies in relatively young economies like China.
growth-rate n.
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1927 Biol. Abstr. 1 547/2 A quantitative analysis of the growth-rate of the chick embryo.
1930 R. A. Fisher Genetical Theory Nat. Selection 45 The vital statistics of an organism in relation to its environment provide a means of determining a measure of the relative growth-rate of the population.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth i. 3 The relative growth-rates of..various parts [of the body].
1970 P. R. Ehrlich & A. H. Ehrlich Population, Resources, Environm. x. 243 The population of Europe is growing at considerably less than 1 percent per year... Only Albania, Rumania, and Iceland have growth rates that exceed 1·2 percent.
growth-ratio n.
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1924 J. S. Huxley in Nature 20 Dec. 895 Constant differential growth-ratios and their significance.
growth-regulation n.
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1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. viii. 165 Sometimes growth-regulation breaks down, and the cells of some part of the body grow too quickly, causing a tumour.
growth-target n.
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1962 Listener 8 Mar. 400/2 The question of labour costs cannot be excluded from any realistic discussion of a specific industrial growth-target.
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growth-controlling adj.
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1922 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 279/1 A growth-controlling principle which he named tethelin.
growth-inducing adj.
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1961 L. C. Martin Clin. Endocrinol. (ed. 3) i. 5 Insulin itself, when combined with a high carbohydrate diet, has also been shown to have some growth-inducing effect.
growth-influencing adj.
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1918 Nature 21 Feb. 484/2 The growth-influencing substance ‘Tethelin’, which Prof. Robertson had isolated from the anterior lobe of the pituitary body.
growth-inhibiting adj.
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1922 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 35 647 (heading) Heat and growth-inhibiting action of serum.
1946 Nature 10 Aug. 200/2 The antibiotic substances present in these extracts had a marked growth-inhibiting effect both on litter-decomposing and mycorrhiza-forming fungi.
growth-making adj.
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1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 875/1 The natives..chew it from boyhood, and attach great importance to it as a growth-making agent.
growth-promoting adj.
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1914 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 19 248 The growth promoting substance was transferred from the butter fat to the olive oil by the procedure described.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. viii. 90 More growth-promoting proteins.
1966 Economist 11 June 1206/1 Strategy for growth—specifically the question of growth-promoting industries—is treated by Perroux (France).
growth-regulating adj.
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1929 Biol. Bull. 57 176 Growth regulating substances in echinoderm larvæ.
1948 New Biol. 5 47 ‘Growth regulating substances’.. will inhibit, increase, or otherwise alter..the subsequent growth of the plants.
1956 Nature 4 Feb. 201/1 Pigments, weed-killers, insecticides and plant growth-regulating substances.
growth-retarding adj.
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1930 Biol. Abstr. 4 351/1 It is concluded that a growth-retarding substance has not been found.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vi. 188 A much greater growth-retarding effect.
growth-seeking adj.
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1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. iv/1 Growth-seeking industries.
growth-stimulating adj.
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1914 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 19 246 (heading) Growth-stimulating substance in butter fat.
C2. † growth-halfpenny n. Obsolete (see quot.).
growth area n. an area designated for economic growth.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > growth > growth area
growth zone1927
growth area1963
growth point1963
1963 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 14/2 The conception of ‘growth areas’ is new.
1966 Listener 2 June 788/2 The Humber estuary is already one of the most significant economic growth areas in the country.
growth company n. a company (sense 5b) that has expanded, or is likely to expand, more than the average.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > other types of company
incorporation1530
acquisitor1668
private company?1711
private practice1724
public company1730
trading house1760
acquiror1789
in-company1791
public corporation1796
company1800
subsidiary company1823
proprietary company1824
stock-company1827
trust company1827
subsidiary1828
concessionaire1839
commandite1844
statutory company1847
parent company1854
mastership1868
state enterprise1886
Pty.1904
asset class1931
acquirer1950
parent1953
growth company1959
spin-off1959
non-profit1961
shell1964
not-for-profit1969
vehicle1971
spin-out1972
startup1975
greenfield1982
large-cap1982
monoline1984
small cap1984
mid-cap1988
multidomestic1989
dotcom1996
1959 T. E. Babson & D. L. Babson Investing for Successful Future xii. 157 Listed..are a few outstanding growth companies, with the length of their business lives.
1969 Times 8 Jan. 23/2 It has been the growth company par excellence.
growth curve n. a line drawn so as to represent growth diagrammatically by showing how some quantity like size, weight, or numbers varies with time.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > diagram > graph > type of
wave-line1888
periodogram1898
periodograph1899
Lorenz curve1909
bar chart1914
growth curve1916
bar diagram1923
bar graph1925
line graph1956
1916 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 24 368 In the growth curves the dots represent the actually determined weights.
1946 Nature 5 Oct. 462/1 Fischer describes the sigmoid growth~curve of the culture, its limiting size, shape-regulation, and power of true reconstitutive regeneration.
growth factor n. Biology any substance required by an organism in minute amounts in order to maintain its growth.
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the world > life > biology > substance > process stimulators or inhibitors > growth regulators or factor > [noun]
augmentor1910
growth factor1928
filtrate factor1936
growth regulator1936
morphogen1952
kinin1956
xanthoxin1970
1928 Biochem. Jrnl. 22 790 There is, therefore, no justification for calling vitamin B2 a ‘growth factor’ in contradistinction to vitamin B1.
1937 Nature 24 July 161/1 ‘Biotin’, a sulphur-containing substance of great potency which may be the chief component of ‘bios’, originally described by Wildiers as a necessary growth factor for yeast. Biotin has also been shown to have an effect on the growth of higher plants.
1964 A. F. Wagner & K. Folkers Vitamins & Coenzymes i. 5 The antiberiberi factor, designated vitamin B, was later found to contain both a heat labile antiberiberi factor and a thermostable growth factor.
growth-form n. (see quot. 1960).
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the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [noun]
heart1597
window plant1838
growth-form1887
parasol1934
petaloid1945
multiflora1972
1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi i. 2 Both [forms] are growth-forms (Wuchsformen) comparable with those growth-forms in the higher plants which are known as the tree, shrub and herb.
1909 E. Warming et al. Oecol. Plants ii. 4 In 1884, Warming, having in view the North-European Spermophyta, gave a general survey of growth-forms which he arranged in fourteen chief groups with many sub-groups, based upon morphological and biological characters.
1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. iii. 92 The ‘life-form’ or ‘growth-form’ of a plant is the form which its vegetative body produces as a result of all the life-processes, including those that are affected by the environment within the plant's life-time and are not heritable.
growth-gradient n. Biology a continuous variation in the rate of growth along an axis of an organism, limb, etc.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > rates of growth
heterauxesis1886
heterogony1927
growth-gradient1929
isogony1932
allometry1936
isometry1950
1929 Nature 15 June 910/1 (heading) Growth-gradients and the axial relations of the body.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth iii. 80 It was found that there existed within the limb what we may call a growth-gradient.
1956 C. H. Waddington Princ. Embryol. xiii. 292 It appears probable that there is a single continuous growth gradient with its high point towards the feet, falling off as one goes higher up the body.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > consisting of money payment
modus1618
growth-halfpenny1676
mead silver1751
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Growth half-peny, paid (in some places) for tythe of every fat beast, Ox and other unfruitfull cattel.[So Phillips (1706 ed. Kersey), and Bailey 1736–92.]
growth industry n. an industry which has been, or is in process of, developing at a faster rate than other industries.
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society > occupation and work > industry > [noun] > types of industry generally
rural industry1735
heavies1900
sunset1906
cottage industry1911
light industry1916
heavy industry1932
resource industry1938
nuclear industry1954
growth industry1957
space industry1957
knowledge industry1959
sex industry1965
sunrise1972
smokestack industry1979
Tayacian1979
sausage fest1995
1957 Economist 7 Sept. 778/2 The pattern of growth in Britain's biggest growth industry..is not a balanced one.
1961 Times 30 May 13/6 Publishing is judged to be a ‘growth’ industry.
1966 Listener 15 Sept. 397/3 Only one laird preferred to keep his moor for private use... The grouse shooting agent's view was rather different— his is a growth industry.
growth leader n. an investment stock with much past and potential growth.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > as likely to be profitable or not
sell1909
high-flyer1931
growth stock1957
growth leader1967
1967 N.Y. Times (Internat. ed.) 11 Feb. 9/6 The growth leaders with phenomenal rises are now well known stocks to all investors.
growth-line n. Physiology a line indicating a stage of growth.
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1857 P. H. Gosse Creation 218 On each of the scutal valves in this individual I can count about 260 growth-lines.
growth-man n. a person who advocates a policy of economic growth.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > an economic policy > specific policies and actions > supporters of
tariffite1830
inflationist1876
tariffist1901
tariff-reformer1903
tariff-monger1904
deflationist1921
Nepman1922
redistributionist1939
growth-man1961
substantivist1967
fiscal engineer1977
supply-sider1980
1961 Britannica Bk. of Year 537/2 From commerce and organization generally came growthman, one favouring a policy of expansion, and growthmanship, the fixing of specific economic goals.
1964 New Statesman 3 Apr. 539/1 Political growthmen.
1966 New Statesman 18 Nov. 748/2 It is well-fed public opinion which presents the growthman with his chief problem.
growthmanship n. such a policy.
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1960 Times 18 Aug. 9/2 Both parties advocate a higher rate of economic growth (though not long ago Mr. Nixon was deriding ‘growthmanship’).
1961 C. Clark (title) Growthmanship.
1967 Economist 26 Aug. 733/1 ‘Growthmanship’..has dominated economic policy-making throughout Europe since the end of the second world war.
growth point n. (a) = growth area n.; (b) = growing point n. at growing n. Compounds 2.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > one who or that which > which has the potential to develop
growth point1963
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > growth > growth area
growth zone1927
growth area1963
growth point1963
1963 Economist 11 May 520/2 Turning many more people to new houses at new or refreshed growth points.
1968 Listener 4 Jan. 8/3 His energy and intellectual passion place him at the growth-point of English study to-day.
growth potential n. (a) potentiality of growth in living matter; (b) potentiality of economic growth.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > growth > potential
growth potential1932
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth i. 40 The distribution of growth-potential in different regions.
1958 Listener 13 Nov. 792/2 He regards any repression of demand below the growth potential as a development that would aggravate a rise in the cost of living [etc.].
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. B6 (advt.) Growth potential is strong due to the enthusiastic management support this position enjoys.
growth regulator n. an organic substance, such as a hormone, vitamin, or auxin, which regulates growth.
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the world > life > biology > substance > process stimulators or inhibitors > growth regulators or factor > [noun]
augmentor1910
growth factor1928
filtrate factor1936
growth regulator1936
morphogen1952
kinin1956
xanthoxin1970
1936 G. S. Avery tr. P. Boysen-Jensen Growth Hormones in Plants i. 3 Plant-growth substances, i.e., Wuchsstoffe, have been referred to by various workers as growth hormones, growth regulators, growth enzymes, phytohormones, and auxins.
1954 Plant Physiol. XXIX. 307 The term growth regulator, as recommended here, includes the auxins, but it is broader, and it encompasses other regulators that may modify growth.
1969 F. B. Salisbury & C. W. Ross Plant Physiol. xx. 444/2 Synthetic growth regulators often mimic the effects of naturally occurring growth regulators (including hormones) or interfere with their actions.
growth ring n. the layer of wood added to a tree during one growing season; cf. annual ring n. at annual adj. and n. Compounds 2; ring n.1 7e.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > ring or layer
insertion1624
ring1664
annual ring1672
year1708
year ring1845
growth ring1907
tree-ring1919
1907 D. P. Penhallow Man. N. Amer. Gymnosperms ii. 24 In proceeding to a study of the transverse section the first feature to which attention is naturally directed is the growth ring.
1937 Discovery Apr. 98/1 The largest of the Sequoias of California, estimated by growth-rings to exceed 3,500 years of life.
1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. i. 13 Where cells of different sizes are produced at different seasons, annual ‘growth-rings’ are formed which may easily be seen in most timbers.
growth stock n. (see quot. 1965).
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > stock > as likely to be profitable or not
sell1909
high-flyer1931
growth stock1957
growth leader1967
1957 Economist 9 Feb. 490/2 Undistributed income..has been transmuted into capital... Hence the investor's emphasis on ‘growth’ stocks.
1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 209/1 ‘Growth’ stock, a stock or share which can be expected to appreciate in value in the future, the policy of the directors of the company being to plough back each year a considerable portion of the profits for the purposes of expansion.
1969 Times 13 Jan. 11/3 This is a growth stock yielding only about 2 per cent, and no investment adviser would advocate putting that proportion of their total worth into that kind of investment.
growth zone n. (a) = growing-region n. at growing n. Compounds 1; (b) = growth area n.; (c) = growing zone n. at growing n. Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > growth > growth area
growth zone1927
growth area1963
growth point1963
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > member of > parts of > region in which growth occurs
growing zone1923
growth zone1927
1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xii. 282 A growth-zone near the hind-end.
1963 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 27/1 The three main centres of expansion in the growth zone.
1967 P. A. Meglitsch Invertebr. Zool. xiv. 636/1 During metamorphosis, this part of the [annelid] larva grows very rapidly; it may be termed the growth zone.
Derivatives
ˈgrowthful adj. Full of growth; capable of growing.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [adjective] > capable of
growthful1849
the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > growth
growinga900
vegetativec1460
crescive1566
vegetive1615
accretive1661
accrescent1713
growthful1849
1849 J. Hamilton Mem. Lady Colquhoun (1850) ii. 58 We see how much more growthful is a lowly commencement, if genuine.
1882 Amer. Missioary Dec. 372 The church work..has been steady, growthful, and encouraging.
ˈgrowthless adj. Having no growth, destitute of growth.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > having no growth
growthless1824
1824 in Harp of Renfrewsh. (1873) Ser. ii. 97 From its growthless tree I'd dangle like the bell.
1878 J. Todhunter Alcestis 108 A weak, sad, cowering, joyless, growthless shade.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > fertile or rich
goodOE
fruitfula1300
gladc1420
unlean?1440
richa1522
batwell1534
battle?1542
luxuriant?c1550
yielding1556
gleby1566
yieldable1577
hearty1580
yieldy1598
liking1600
well-natured1600
lusty1601
growthsome1610
thankful1610
pregnant1615
in heart1626
grateful1832
fatty1855
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 32 The Tilthe..growes so growthsome that it yeeldes an after-math.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 186 You cannot dig many spades in mold or growthsom earth, before you come at a dead soyl.
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† growthn.2
dialect. Obsolete.
(See quot. 1507-82.)
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1507–8 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. c Inter le Halff ebbe mark in le Grath meter in Humbr'.
1507–8 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) Gloss. p. ccxvii Grath meter, growth meter. Growth is the name used in the Humber district for the foreshore lying between the river embankment and highwater mark, because covered by a growth of coarse grass. A ‘meter’ is a mark or boundary.]
1741 MS. Court Roll, Burstwick (York) Pasture in Newforth and in the Grooth in Preston.
1773 Preston Incl. Act 22 The salt end of a certain piece of ground..called the hay marsh, lying between the New Bank and the River Humber, together with the growths thereunto belonging.
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