growth
US: /ˈɡɹoʊθ/
UK: /ɡɹˈəʊθ/
UK: /ɡɹˈəʊθ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
growth /grouθ/
- danh từ
- sự lớn mạnh, sự phát triển
- sự tăng tiến, sự tăng lên, sự khuếch trương
- the growth of industry: sự lớn mạnh của nền công nghiệp
- sự sinh trưởng
- a rapid growth: sự mau lớn, sự sinh trưởng mau
- sự trồng trọt, vụ mùa màng
- a growth of rice: một mùa lúa
- wine of the 1954 growth: rượu vang vụ nho 1954
- cái đang sinh trưởng, khối đã mọc
- a thick growth of weeds: khối cỏ dại mọc dày
- (y học) khối u, u
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [U] (of people, animals or plants) the process of growing physically, mentally or emotionally: Lack of water will stunt the plant's growth. + Remove dead leaves to encourage new growth. + a concern with personal (= mental and emotional) growth and development + growth hormones (= designed to make sb/sth grow faster)
2 [U] ~ (in / of sth) an increase in the size, amount or degree of sth: population growth + the rapid growth in violent crime + His book describes the growth of nationalism in Germany before the Second World War.
3 [U] an increase in economic activity: a disappointing year of little growth in Britain and America + policies aimed at sustaining economic growth + an annual growth rate of 10% + a growth area / industry
4 [C] a lump caused by a disease that forms on or inside a person, an animal or a plant: a malignant / cancerous growth
5 [U, C] something that has grown: The forest's dense growth provides nesting places for a wide variety of birds. + several days' growth of beard + Prune the shrub heavily now and fresh green growths should appear in March and April.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 development, evolution, evolvement, cultivation, nurturing, increase, expansion, broadening, extension, enlargement, spread, proliferation, flowering:
The growth of education was a slow and painful process.
2 vegetation, crop:
The area is covered with a dense growth of timber.
3 advance, advancement, success, improvement, expansion, rise, progress:
The growth of the economy has slowed down in the last quarter.
4 wen, excrescence, wart, lump, tumour, swelling, intumescence:
He developed an ugly growth on his nose.
Collocation dictionary
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
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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.
Concise English dictionary
growthsgrəʊθ
noun
+(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
+a progression from simpler to more complex forms
+a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
+vegetation that has grown
+the gradual beginning or coming forth
+(pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor)
+something grown or growing
