growth
Từ điển Collocation
growth noun
1 increase in sth
ADJ. considerable, dramatic, enormous, exponential, impressive, phenomenal, significant, spectacular, strong, tremendous the exponential growth in world population | explosive, fast, rapid the explosive growth of personal computers in the 1990s | modest, slow, steady The factory has achieved a steady growth in output. | low a vicious circle of low growth and low productivity | long-term | economic, industrial | population
VERB + GROWTH achieve | maintain, sustain | encourage, promote, stimulate | control new measures to control the growth of traffic on the roads
GROWTH + NOUN rate The economy enjoyed the highest growth rate in Asia. | area, industry Communications technology has proved to be a growth area.
PREP. ~ in There was a rapid growth in the numbers of private cars.
PHRASES a rate of growth > Special page at BUSINESS
2 growing
ADJ. healthy, normal A good diet is vital for healthy growth. | excessive the excessive growth of algae in rivers | intellectual, personal, spiritual
VERB + GROWTH encourage Give the plants a good pruning to encourage growth. | stunt Lack of food had stunted his growth.
GROWTH + NOUN hormone
3 abnormal lump in the body
ADJ. cancerous, malignant | benign
VERB + GROWTH have
PREP. ~ on He had a cancerous growth on his lung.
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children
- a progression from simpler to more complex forms
the growth of culture
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; increase, increment
the increase in unemployment
the growth of population
- vegetation that has grown
a growth of trees
the only growth was some salt grass
- the gradual beginning or coming forth; emergence, outgrowth
figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece
- (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
- something grown or growing
a growth of hair
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
growths
syn.: development emergence growing increase increment maturation ontogenesis ontogeny outgrowth