Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GROW

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Definitions of GROW

1. (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
2. (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
3. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
4. (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
5. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
6. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
8. A surname.

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Examples of Using GROW in a Sentence

• Arable land (from the , "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.
• In general, bootstrapping usually refers to a self-starting process that is supposed to continue or grow without external input.
• Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why humans grow, change, and adapt across the course of their lives.
• Although there are a handful of obligate aquatic plants that must be grown entirely underwater, most can grow fully emersed if the soil is moist.
• New waves seem to emerge at the back of a wave group, grow in amplitude until they are at the center of the group, and vanish at the wave group front.
• He wanted poor farmers to grow other crops, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, as a source of their own food and to improve their quality of life.
• Terrestrial or aquatic plants may grow freely with their roots exposed to the nutritious liquid or the roots may be mechanically supported by an inert medium such as perlite, gravel, or other substrates.
• Lambda strains, mutated at specific sites, are unable to lysogenize cells; instead, they grow and enter the lytic cycle after superinfecting an already lysogenized cell.
• These enzyme-catalyzed reactions allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments.
• As an aspect of strategic management, M&A can allow enterprises to grow or downsize, and change the nature of their business or competitive position.
• New waves seem to emerge at the back of a wave group, grow in amplitude until they are at the center of the group, and vanish at the wave group front.
• Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
• Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time.
• With the end of the Wars of the Roses the English state stabilised and began to grow in power, resulting by the 16th century in the annexation of Wales, the domination of Scotland, and the establishment of the British Empire.
• Some regions of the world's oceans, along the animals' migration routes, had a particularly dense whale population and became targets for large concentrations of whaling ships, and the industry continued to grow well into the 20th century.
• Yeast sizes vary greatly, depending on species and environment, typically measuring 3–4 μm in diameter, although some yeasts can grow to 40 μm in size.
• Wine grapes mostly grow between the 30th and the 50th degree of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, typically in regions of Mediterranean climate.
• The Fertile Crescent is believed to be the first region where settled farming emerged as people started the process of clearance and modification of natural vegetation to grow newly domesticated plants as crops.
• Halophiles are organisms that live in highly saline environments, and require the salinity to survive, while halotolerant organisms (belonging to different domains of life) can grow under saline conditions, but do not require elevated concentrations of salt for growth.
• It has been reported to grow well when irrigated with water having 3,000–4,000 ppm of soluble salts.

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