Spreading vs Growing - What's the difference?
spreading | growing |
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric
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The act by which something is spread.
* 1991 , Samuel D. Robbins, Wisconsin Birdlife: Population & Distribution Past & Present (page 579)
growth; increase
* 1852 , Henry Howe, Historical Collections of the Great West
That grows.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Connected with growing
As verbs the difference between spreading and growing
is that spreading is present participle of lang=en while growing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between spreading and growing
is that spreading is the act by which something is spread while growing is growth; increase.As an adjective growing is
that grows.spreading
English
Verb
(head)citation, passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}}
Noun
(en noun)- Small numbers [of meadowlarks] remain on farms in the southern counties throughout the winter, usually relying on fresh manure spreadings for food when snow covers the fields.
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.