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What is the difference between growing and growth?

growing | growth |

As nouns the difference between growing and growth

is that growing is growth; increase while growth is an increase in size, number, value, or strength.

As a verb growing

is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective growing

is that grows.

growing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • growth; increase
  • * 1852 , Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West
    • Some of these unhappy emigrants felt a general sinking of all their mental and bodily energies, without, however, experiencing the growings of hunger.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That grows.
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    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • Connected with growing

    • growth

    English

    (wikipedia growth)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
  • (biology) The act of growing, getting bigger or higher.
  • (biology) Something that grows or has grown.
  • (pathology) An abnormal mass such as a tumor.

    • Synonyms

    * (increase in size) enlargement, expansion, increase, increment * (act of growing) development, maturation * (something that grows or has grown) vegetation * outgrowth, cancer, mass

    Antonyms

    * (increase in size) contraction, decrease, decrement, reduction * (act of growing) nondevelopment

    Derived terms

    * growth spurt * growth stock * overgrowth * undergrowth

    Hyponyms

    * tumor