单词 | outgrowth |
释义 | outgrowthn. 1. The action or process of growing out or developing. ΘΚΠ 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 > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > that which originates from something else daughtereOE outcasting1340 impc1380 childa1398 outgrowing?a1425 proventc1451 provenuec1487 excrescency1545 sprig1575 procedure?1577 proceed1578 derivative1593 offspring1596 superfetation1603 excression1610 shootc1610 excretion1615 slip1627 excrescence1633 derivation1641 derivate1660 offshoot1801 offtracta1806 deduction1835 outgrowth1837 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 52 Those who dislike the mere mention of the outgrowth of individual property. 1853 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 143 45 When this outgrowth takes place before the anus, I propose to call it an abdomen. 1902 Trans. Linn. Soc. Oct. 304 The appearance of a new mesenterial pair is followed very closely by the outgrowth of a tentacle from its entocœle. 1989 BioFactors 2 72/1 Nerve growth factor has a bewildering variety of effects on its target cells. These range from..changes in neurotransmitter-synthesizing enzymes..to the outgrowth of stable cell processes. 2. A product, outcome, or offshoot of something. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product > natural product or products naturals1586 product1600 outgrowth1846 1846 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Dec. 446/2 An outgrowth of the highest thought and affection, combined into organic harmonies. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) i. 2 Only the outgrowth of our own perverted life. 1888 S. Moore tr. K. Marx & F. Engels Manifesto Communist Party ii. 19 Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production. a1944 H. D. Coll. Poems (1983) 330 The Greek Drama, the outgrowth of the worship of Dionysius, is a means of approach to Athene. 1969 D. Widgery in A. Cockburn & R. Blackburn Student Power 120 The NUS was formed in 1922 as an outgrowth of various inter-university organizations. 1989 Forbes 20 Mar. 150/2 The new first-class service..is the outgrowth of two years of exhaustive research into the desires, needs and requirements of upscale travelers. 3. A normal or abnormal structure which grows out of or from something. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [noun] boss1386 process1565 pitch1566 promontorium1791 promontory1793 papula1795 papule1821 outgrowth1855 upgrowth1870 1855 L. Holden Human Osteol. 57 At the lower part of the squamous portion there is an outgrowth of bone, termed the ‘zygoma’. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 540 When outgrowths occur on the seed, either along the raphe..or as a cushion covering the micropyle..they are variously called Crest, Strophiole, or Caruncle. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 403/1 Through the agency of micro-organisms dwelling in nodular outgrowths on the roots of..leguminous plants, the latter are enabled to assimilate the free nitrogen of the air. 1940 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 67 12 In Rhizophlyctis, for example, the sporangium is reported to have grown directly from the zoospore occasionally, and in R. Liguicola (Lindau) Minden it may form as an outgrowth of the zoospore. 1994 W. Maples & M. Browning Dead Men do tell Tales x. 142 Age may occasionally still be seen by arthritic lipping or outgrowths along a fragment of a joint. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1837 |
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