budding

budding
[[t]bʌ̱dɪŋ[/t]]
1) ADJ: ADJ n If you describe someone as, for example, a budding businessman or a budding artist, you mean that they are starting to succeed or become interested in business or art.

The forum is now open to all budding entrepreneurs...

Budding linguists can tune in to the activity cassettes in French, German, Spanish and Italian.

2) ADJ: ADJ n You use budding to describe a situation that is just beginning.

Our budding romance was over.

...Russia's budding democracy.


English dictionary. 2008.

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  • Budding — (also called burgeoning) is the formation of a new organism by the protrusion of part of another organism. This is very common in plants Fact|date=February 2008 and fungi, but may be found in some animals as well, such as the Hydra. Usually, the… …   Wikipedia

  • budding — [bud′iŋ] n. 〚see BUD1, n. 3〛 a type of asexual reproduction in which a new individual or branch develops from an outgrowth on the body of a plant or certain lower animals * * * bud·ding (bŭdʹĭng) adj. Being in an early developmental stage: a… …   Universalium

  • Budding — steht für: Karl Budding (1870–1942), deutscher Verwaltungsjurist Edwin Beard Budding (1795–1846), Erfinder des mechanischen Spindelmähers englisch für Knospung, Abschnürungsprozess der Virushülle …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • budding — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ beginning and showing signs of promise: their budding relationship …   English terms dictionary

  • Budding — Bud ding, n. 1. The act or process of producing buds. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) A process of asexual reproduction, in which a new organism or cell is formed by a protrusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • budding — budding. См. почкование. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • budding — index inchoate, incipient Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • budding — [adj] developing, flowering beginning, blossoming, burgeoning, bursting forth, embryonic, fledgling, fresh, germinal, germinating, growing, incipient, maturing, nascent, opening, potential, promising, pubescent, pullulating, shooting up,… …   New thesaurus

  • budding — [bud′iŋ] n. [see BUD1, n. 3] a type of asexual reproduction in which a new individual or branch develops from an outgrowth on the body of a plant or certain lower animals …   English World dictionary

  • Budding — Bud Bud, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Budded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Budding}.] 1. To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot. [1913 Webster] 2. To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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