Plant
[plɑːnt] or [plænt]
Definition
(noun.) (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion.
(noun.) buildings for carrying on industrial labor; 'they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles'.
(noun.) something planted secretly for discovery by another; 'the police used a plant to trick the thieves'; 'he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant'.
(noun.) an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience.
(verb.) put firmly in the mind; 'Plant a thought in the students' minds'.
(verb.) place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; 'Plant a spy in Moscow'; 'plant bugs in the dissident's apartment'.
(verb.) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; 'Let's plant flowers in the garden'.
(verb.) place into a river; 'plant fish'.
Edited by Abraham--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
(n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
(n.) The sole of the foot.
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
(n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
(n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
(n.) To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
(n.) To set up; to install; to instate.
(v. i.) To perform the act of planting.
Edited by Jeremy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Vegetable.
v. a. Fix, establish, settle, found.
v. n. Sow, scatter seed, put in seed.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Set, insert, settle, establish, introduce, stock, fix, place
ANT:Remove, extract, eradicate, extirpate, disestablish, transport, denude, transplant,displace
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Definition
n. a something living and growing fixed on the ground and drawing food therefrom by means of its root and developing into a stem leaves and seed: a sprout: any vegetable production: the tools or material of any trade or business: (slang) a trick dodge hidden plunder.—v.t. to put into the ground for growth: to furnish with plants: to set in the mind implant: to establish.—v.i. to set shoots in the ground.—adj. Plant′able.—ns. Plant′age (Shak.) plants in general or the vegetable kingdom; Plantā′tion a place planted: a wood or grove: (U.S.) a large estate: a colony: act or process of introduction: (Milt.) the act of planting; Plant′er one who plants or introduces: the owner of a plantation; Plant′-house a garden structure designed for the protection and cultivation of the plants of warmer climates than our own; Plant′icle a young plant; Plant′ing the act of setting in the ground for growth: the art of forming plantations of trees: a plantation.—adj. Plant′less destitute of vegetation.—ns. Plant′let a little plant; Plant′-louse a small homopterous insect which infests plants; Plant′ule the embryo of a plant.
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Examples
- As I had had some previous experience with the statements of mining men, I concluded I would just send down a small plant and prospect the field before putting up a large one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was a class of plant which the inquirers desired to purchase outright and operate themselves, usually because of remoteness from any possible source of general supply of current. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Had they not better throw these bodies to the plant men and then return to their quarters, O Mighty One? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Edison concentrating plant has been sketched in the briefest outline with a view of affording merely a bare idea of the great work of its projector. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As the visitor passes down through the machine shop, he particularly notices the sanitary conditions of the plant. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is proposed to work as a unit plant for successful operation at least six sets of molds, to keep the men busy and the machinery going. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Many cultivated plants display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The following conclusions are drawn up chiefly from Gartner's admirable work on the hybridisation of plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Hence I was led to dry the stems and branches of ninety-four plants with ripe fruit, and to place them on sea-water. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Shortly after he had moved to London he had been asked to investigate astringent plants in connection with tanning. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- With respect to climbing plants, I need not repeat what has been so lately said. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The early plants were tied, and most lowly plants to-day are tied, by the conditions of their life cycle, to water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That depends,' said Mrs. Bardell, approaching the duster very near to Mr. Pickwick's elbow which was planted on the table. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He planted his two paws on the edge of the table and bent his gracious young head to drink. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Anyhow, and every how,' said Wegg, 'he has been planted here, and he is here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The following April he went back to Georgia, where he found unusually large crops of cotton had been planted, in expectation of using the gin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Wild yeast settles on the skin of grapes and apples, but since it does not have access to the fruit juices within, it remains inactive very much as a seed does before it is planted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She was a manufacturer--she made fine linen and sold it; she was an agriculturist--she bought estates and planted vineyards. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They had come out into the great tree-planted space before the Invalides. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Well, Mr. Sawyer,' said Mrs. Raddle, planting herself firmly on a purple cauliflower in the Kidderminster carpet, 'and what's that to me, Sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I consider his planting one of his menial tools in the yard, an act of sneaking and sniffing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Now it is attended from the day of its planting until it reaches the lips of the consumer by contrivances of consummate skill to fit it for its destined purpose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Gently, Sir,' said Sam, planting his head against the wall, and making a platform of his back. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight in improving and planting. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He organized a great digging of wells in India, and the planting of trees for shade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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