different between grow vs arow

English

Etymology

From Middle English growen, from Old English gr?wan (“to grow, increase, flourish, germinate”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?an? (“to grow, grow green”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?reh?- (“to grow, become green”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????/, [??????]
• (US) IPA^(key): /??o?/, [???o??]
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

grow (third-person singular simple present grows, present participle growing, simple past grew or (dialectal) growed, past participle grown or (dialectal) growed)

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.
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6. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
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7. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
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Antonyms

• shrink

Derived terms

Translations

References

• grow at OneLook Dictionary Search

Middle English

Verb

grow

1. Alternative form of growen

English

Alternative forms

• a-row

Etymology

a- +? row

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???o?/
• Rhymes: -??

Adverb

arow (not comparable)

1. In a row, line, or rank; successively.
   • c. 1589, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!

     My master and his man are both broke loose,

     Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor

     Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire

   • 1680, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-Works, Number 10 “Of Turning,” ¶ 8, p. 184,^[2]

     And in the middle of the Breadth of the Cross-Greddle is made several holes all arow to receive the Iron Pin set upright in the Treddle.

   • 1716, John Dryden (editor), “A Description of the Tombs in Westminster-Abby” in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems, 4th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, p. 305,^[3]

     And now the Presses open stand

     And ye see them all arow,

     But never so more is said of these

     Than what is said below.

   • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, Chapter 8,^[4]

     The chairs were all a-row against the walls, with the exception of four or five which stood in a circle round the fire.

Anagrams

• WORA

Middle English

Alternative forms

• arwe, arowe, aruwe, arew, arewe

Etymology

From Old English earh, ?rwe, from Proto-Germanic *arhw?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar?u?/, /?a?r?u?/, /?arw?/, /?a?rw?/, /?ar?u?/

Noun

arow (plural arows or arewen)

1. An arrow (projectile weapon emitted from a bow)
2. (figuratively) Anything felt to have a (metaphorically) piercing effect.

Descendants

• English: arrow
• Scots: arrae, arow, arowe

References

• “arwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.