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growth
Overview of noun growth
The noun growth has 7 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (37) growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")
2. (20) growth -- (a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture")
3. (3) increase, increment, growth -- (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population")
4. (3) growth -- (vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass")
5. (1) emergence, outgrowth, growth -- (the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece")
6. growth -- ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))
7. growth -- (something grown or growing; "a growth of hair")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun growth
7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
growth
=> development, evolution
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 3
increase, increment, growth
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 4
growth
=> vegetation, flora, botany
=> collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
emergence, outgrowth, growth
=> beginning
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
growth
=> illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
=> ill health, unhealthiness, health problem
=> pathological state
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 7
growth
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun growth
5 of 7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> culture
=> amelogenesis
=> angiogenesis
=> apposition
=> auxesis
=> blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence
=> cenogenesis, kenogenesis, caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis
=> cohesion
=> cytogenesis, cytogeny
=> foliation, leafing
=> fructification
=> gametogenesis
=> germination, sprouting
=> infructescence
=> intussusception
=> juvenescence
=> life cycle
=> masculinization, masculinisation, virilization, virilisation
=> morphogenesis
=> myelinization, myelinisation
=> neurogenesis
=> palingenesis, recapitulation
=> proliferation
=> psychogenesis
=> psychogenesis
=> psychomotor development
=> psychosexual development
=> rooting
=> suppression
=> teething, dentition, odontiasis
=> teratogenesis
=> vegetation
Sense 3
increase, increment, growth
=> accession
=> accretion, accumulation
=> accretion
=> accretion
=> accretion
=> multiplication
=> population growth
=> proliferation
=> pullulation
=> relaxation
=> widening, broadening
Sense 5
emergence, outgrowth, growth
=> rise
Sense 6
growth
=> excrescence
=> exostosis
=> polyp, polypus
=> peduncle
=> tumor, tumour, neoplasm
=> hamartoma
Sense 7
growth
=> ingrowth
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun growth
7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> organic process, biological process
Sense 2
growth
=> development, evolution
Sense 3
increase, increment, growth
=> process, physical process
Sense 4
growth
=> vegetation, flora, botany
Sense 5
emergence, outgrowth, growth
=> beginning
Sense 6
growth
=> illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
Sense 7
growth
=> object, physical object
Antonyms of noun growth
Member Holonyms of noun growth
Substance Holonyms of noun growth
Part Holonyms of noun growth
Member Meronyms of noun growth
Substance Meronyms of noun growth
Part Meronyms of noun growth
1 of 7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
HAS PART: gastrulation
Meronyms of noun growth
1 of 7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
HAS PART: gastrulation
Holonyms of noun growth
Attributes of noun growth
Derived Forms of noun growth
5 of 7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
RELATED TO>(verb) grow#3
=> grow
RELATED TO>(verb) grow#4
=> grow
RELATED TO>(verb) grow#5
=> mature, maturate, grow
Sense 2
growth
RELATED TO>(verb) grow#5
=> mature, maturate, grow
Sense 3
increase, increment, growth
RELATED TO>(verb) grow#2
=> grow
Sense 4
growth
RELATED TO>(verb) grow#7
=> grow, raise, farm, produce
Sense 5
emergence, outgrowth, growth
RELATED TO>(verb) grow#6
=> originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
RELATED TO>(verb) grow#1
=> turn, grow
Domain of noun growth
2 of 7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
TOPIC>(noun) biology#1, biological science#1
Sense 6
growth
TOPIC>(noun) pathology#1
Domain Terms of noun growth
1 of 7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
TOPIC TERM>(noun) isometry#1
Familiarity of noun growth
growth used as a noun is common (polysemy count =7)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun growth
7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
> organic process, biological process
=> adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> agglutination
=> aging, ageing, senescence
=> anovulation
=> antisepsis, asepsis
=> assimilation, absorption
=> autoregulation
=> bacteriostasis
=> blooming, bloom
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> carbon cycle
=> catabolism, katabolism, dissimilation, destructive metabolism
=> cell division, cellular division
=> crossing over, crossover
=> defoliation
=> deossification
=> digestion
=> eburnation
=> ecchymosis
=> effacement
=> erythropoiesis
=> eutrophication
=> evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
=> expression
=> extravasation
=> gastrulation
=> glycogenesis
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> hematopoiesis, haematopoiesis, hemopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hemogenesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, haematogenesis, sanguification
=> heredity
=> humification
=> hypostasis, epistasis
=> implantation, nidation
=> inhibition
=> invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding
=> involution
=> cytokinesis
=> karyokinesis
=> keratinization, keratinisation
=> Krebs cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, citric acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle
=> lymphopoiesis
=> lysogenization, lysogenisation
=> maturation, ripening, maturement
=> metabolism, metabolic process, metastasis
=> metamorphosis, metabolism
=> nitrogen cycle
=> nitrogen fixation
=> nondevelopment
=> nutrition
=> organification
=> ossification
=> ovulation
=> oxidative phosphorylation
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> pathologic process, pathological process
=> perennation
=> preservation
=> quellung, quellung reaction
=> quickening
=> regeneration
=> regulation
=> replication
=> reproduction
=> resorption, reabsorption
=> ripening, aging, ageing
=> secretion, secernment
=> segregation
=> shedding, sloughing
=> summation
=> symphysis
=> synapsis
=> synizesis, synezesis
=> transcription
=> transduction
=> translation
=> protein folding, folding
=> translocation
=> translocation
=> transpiration
=> tumefaction
=> ulceration
=> vascularization, vascularisation
=> vesiculation, vesication, blistering
Sense 2
growth
> development, evolution
=> assibilation
=> deepening
=> growth
=> unfolding, flowering
Sense 3
increase, increment, growth
> process, physical process
=> phenomenon
=> chelation
=> dealignment
=> decrease, decrement
=> degeneration, devolution
=> development, evolution
=> economic process
=> encapsulation
=> execution, instruction execution
=> human process
=> increase, increment, growth
=> industrial process
=> irreversible process
=> iteration, looping
=> iteration, loop
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> operation, functioning, performance
=> organic process, biological process
=> photography
=> processing
=> reversible process
=> sensitization, sensitisation
=> shaping, defining
=> variation
Sense 4
growth
> vegetation, flora, botany
=> brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
=> growth
=> scrub, chaparral, bush
=> stand
=> forest, wood, woods
=> shrubbery
=> garden
=> brier, brierpatch, brier patch
=> groundcover, ground cover
Sense 5
emergence, outgrowth, growth
> beginning
=> casus belli
=> emergence, egress, issue
=> origin, origination, inception
=> genesis, generation
=> ground floor
=> emergence, outgrowth, growth
=> start
=> creation, conception
Sense 6
growth
> illness, unwellness, malady, sickness
=> ague
=> amyloidosis
=> anuresis, anuria
=> catastrophic illness
=> collapse
=> decompression sickness, aeroembolism, air embolism, gas embolism, caisson disease, bends
=> food poisoning, gastrointestinal disorder
=> lead poisoning, plumbism, saturnism
=> disease
=> hypermotility
=> indisposition
=> ozone sickness
=> toxemia of pregnancy, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxaemia
=> growth
Sense 7
growth
> object, physical object
=> whole, unit
=> living thing, animate thing
=> location
=> charm, good luck charm
=> curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
=> draw, lot
=> film
=> hoodoo
=> je ne sais quoi
=> keepsake, souvenir, token, relic
=> makeweight, filler
=> part, portion
=> property, prop
=> snake
=> stuff
=> triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer
=> paring
=> catch
=> commemorative
=> discard
=> finding
=> floater
=> fomite, vehicle
=> geological formation, formation
=> growth
=> head
=> ice
=> land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
=> land, ground, soil
=> moon
=> neighbor, neighbour
=> remains
=> ribbon, thread
=> shiner
=> vagabond
=> wall
=> web
Meronyms of noun growth
7 senses of growth
Sense 1
growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
HAS PART: gastrulation
Holonyms of noun growth
Grep of noun growth
economic growth
growth
growth-onset diabetes
growth factor
growth hormone
growth hormone-releasing factor
growth industry
growth rate
growth regulator
growth ring
growth stock
human growth hormone
ingrowth
nerve growth factor
old growth
outgrowth
overgrowth
population growth
rapid growth
rate of growth
second growth
undergrowth
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