Greater vs Growing - What's the difference?
greater | growing |
(great)
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, title= Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area ; (of a city) metropolitan.
* 1990 , Geza Peter Lauter & Chikara Higashi, Internationalization of the Japanese Economy , ISBN 0792390520, p. 285
*:more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.
* 1997 , Virginia Boucher, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook , ISBN 0838906672, p. 98
*:located in the greater Midwest.
* 2004 , Richard Alan Meckel & Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide , ISBN 0313330417, p. 201
growth; increase
* 1852 , Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West
That grows.
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, title= Connected with growing
As adjectives the difference between greater and growing
is that greater is comparative of great while growing is that grows.As a verb growing is
present participle of lang=en.As a noun growing is
growth; increase.greater
English
Adjective
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- The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.
Statistics
*growing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger.
Adjective
(-)The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.