growing
part of speech
verb form (present participle of grow); adjective (growing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Growing means getting bigger or taller right now. tree →
2) Growing plants means raising them from seeds. tree →
3) Growing can mean increasing or becoming more, like a growing crowd. tree →
4) A growing child is one who is still getting bigger. tree →
sense in the lessons
A change that adds over time, or plants being raised in a garden. In science: a growing plant needs water and light; the growing season is the warm part of the year. In everyday life: growing kids need sleep and good food. Phrases: «growing up», «growing season», «a growing number of».
examples
- The tree is growing 30 cm a year. tree →
- She is growing 12 sunflowers. tree →
- The growing puppy eats more each week. tree →
- His savings keep growing by 5 dollars. tree →
- Growing up on a farm, she learned to ride. tree →
- A growing crowd waited at the gate. tree →
- We are growing beans in cups on the windowsill. tree →
- Growing children need about 10 hours of sleep. tree →
- I feel that I am growing. tree →
note
Points to adding, often the same amount each time (a rate). Trap: «growing 30 cm a year» is the change per year, not the height. Spelling: grow + ing, no letter doubled.
In the corpora
- "We're expecting" means a baby is growing inside Mum and will be born in a few months.
- A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.
- Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment.
- Alcohol is against the law to buy before 18 because growing bodies and brains handle it badly.
- Staying up too late makes adults tired the next day, and children's sleep matters even more for growing and learning.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «growing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.