| 单词 | growing wages |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrowing wages That grows, in senses of the verb. (Also with up.) growing pay, growing wages (see quot. 1867). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [adjective] > growth growinga900 vegetativec1460 crescive1566 vegetive1615 accretive1661 accrescent1713 growthful1849 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] waxing1297 multiplyinga1400 augmentive1483 breeding1552 crescent1568 growingc1587 enhancinga1592 creasing1592 teeming1597 increasing1600 auctive1634 echinga1644 multiplicating1661 gliscent1669 enlarging1694 augmenting1745 swelling1854 a900 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 66/23 Uirens folium, growende leaf. OE Genesis 890 Hwæt druge þu, dohtor..growendra gifa. c1587 Let. All Souls' Coll. in C. R. L. Fletcher Collectanea (1885) I. 211 Expences, which..are to be defrayed by our woodes as by a growinge treasure. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd5 If thou may with reason yet represse The growing euill, ere it strength haue gott. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 18 Hewne and framed out of the rocke or growing stone. 1703 N. Rowe Ulysses v. i. 1878 Each moment brings the growing Danger nearer. 1745 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming (new ed.) iii. 44 The great Stones that we call growing Stones, composed of vast Numbers of small Pebbles that lie in little Cells or Holes. 1782 T. Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 282 Soon after April came in, the weather was fine and growing, sometimes showery. 1783 E. Burke Rep. Affairs India in Wks. (1819) XI. 278 This receipt of sums of money, under colour of gift, seemed a growing evil. 1804 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VI. 126 You are to inquire whether blame is to be attached to any individual for the said loss, in order that it may be charged against his growing wages. 1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. I. To Rdr. 3 The growing practice of maintaining large standing armies in times of peace. 1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 31 It seems..to have been surrounded by growing trees. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Growing pay, that which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect. 1868 A. Helps Realmah I. v. 108 He has growing-up boys to deal with. 1889 J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature 26 Sept. 523 A growing organism is not the same to-day as it was yesterday. < as lemmas |
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