What's the difference between grow and mend?

Grow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
  • (v. i.) To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
  • (v. i.) To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.
  • (v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.
  • (v. i.) To become attached of fixed; to adhere.
  • (v. t.) To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
  • (2) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (3) Thus, B cells that grow spontaneously from the peripheral blood of SS patients spontaneously produce a B-cell growth factor.
  • (4) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (5) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (6) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
  • (7) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
  • (8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (9) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
  • (10) The rate of nuclei stained by Pr-122 is different from that of Pr-192 in both growing and quiescent cultures.
  • (11) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
  • (12) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (13) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
  • (14) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
  • (15) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
  • (16) In our work with bacteriophage T4, we observed that several T4 am mutants could grow on JM105.
  • (17) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
  • (18) In WI-38, a normal human fibroblast, the rates of degradation of short lived and long lived proteins are identical whether the cultures are growing exponentially or are density-inhibited.
  • (19) Mu does not grow lytically in or kill him bacteria but can lysogenize such hosts.
  • (20) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.

Mend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
  • (v. t.) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
  • (v. t.) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
  • (v. i.) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
  • (2) A spokesperson for Lim emphasised his involvement with Salford is “philanthropic”, motivated by his interest in developing young players and has nothing to do with Valencia, Mendes or TPO.
  • (3) Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND), an outfit that previously operated under the banner of iEngage until controversy forced a rebrand , has decided that the worst it can say about Tell MAMA, the best means it can find of turning it into a satanic organisation, is to say that it associates with gays and Jews.
  • (4) Chelsea have paid the buyout clause in Costa’s contract – he shares the same agent as Mourinho, Jorge Mendes – and the club are pushing ahead with the rest of their business.
  • (5) Kenyon then moved to Chelsea, where he and Mendes negotiated Mourinho’s hiring as the new manager, the signings of Carvalho and Ferreira to join him from Porto, and Tiago Mendes, from Benfica.
  • (6) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
  • (7) Made by Neal Street Productions, the indie Harris founded almost a decade ago with her childhood friend Sam Mendes and former Donmar Warehouse executive producer Caro Newling, the films have attracted widespread praise for their ambition and quality .
  • (8) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
  • (9) That Chelsea should be in partnership with Mendes and CAA in the Burnaby venture, without openly discussing it, raises many questions.
  • (10) De Blasio and Bratton have promised to mend the frayed relations between police officers and the city's minority communities.
  • (11) DNA sequence analysis of menD shows an open reading frame encoding a 52-kilodalton protein.
  • (12) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Van der Bellen: Austria vote a signal of hope Overcoming these strong emotions and mending the deep divisions they have caused will be a tremendously difficult task.
  • (14) Now the only question is whether Mendes is going to make the sequel.
  • (15) Harris and Mendes grew up on the BBC Television Shakespeare – adaptations of every play, broadcast between 1978 and 1985.
  • (16) Paget's disease may in some cases require recourse to surgery: (1) Fractures of bones in patients with the disease mend normally but slowly.
  • (17) Though the Bond series was in anything but trouble before Mendes’ arrival – and Craig’s – there was the sense of a certain amount of staleness towards the end of Pierce Brosnan’s run.
  • (18) In confluent group C cells, the mended sites were clustered in regions where dimer excision was as efficient as excision in the DNA of normal cells.
  • (19) However, in an interview with the Spanish radio station Cadena COPE on Wednesday evening, Mendes rejected those suggestions and was adamant Ronaldo intends to spend the rest of his career in the Spanish capital.
  • (20) Giovana Mendes was one of those who took part in protests against what she described as "the shameful political situation".