Increasing vs Growing - What's the difference?
increasing | growing |
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, title= (knitting) An increase.
* 1864 , The Ladies' Companion and Monthly Magazine (page 277)
growth; increase
* 1852 , Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West
That grows.
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, title= Connected with growing
As verbs the difference between increasing and growing
is that increasing is while growing is .As nouns the difference between increasing and growing
is that increasing is (knitting) an increase while growing is growth; increase.As an adjective growing is
that grows.increasing
English
Verb
(head)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}
Noun
(en noun)- Now begin the increasings for the chest by making 2 stitches in the fourth stitch; repeat this, increasing in every fourth row, but 1 stitch further each time, so as to form a slanting line, the same as a dress-pleat.
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.