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Growing vs Planting - What's the difference?

growing | planting |

As verbs the difference between growing and planting

is that growing is present participle of lang=en while planting is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between growing and planting

is that growing is growth; increase while planting is a plant (or clipping) that has been freshly planted.

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.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • Connected with growing
  • planting

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant (or clipping) that has been freshly planted.
  • Take one of the plantings over as a house-warming gift.

    Verb

    (head)