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plant

[plant, plahnt]

noun

  1. Botany.Ģżany member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or the use of photosynthesis.

  2. an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub.

  3. a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting.

  4. the equipment, including the fixtures, machinery, tools, etc., and often the buildings, necessary to carry on any industrial business.

    a manufacturing plant.

  5. the complete equipment or apparatus for a particular mechanical process or operation.

    the heating plant for a home.

  6. the buildings, equipment, etc., of an institution.

    the sprawling plant of the university.

  7. Slang.Ģżsomething intended to trap, decoy, or lure, as criminals.

  8. Slang.Ģża scheme to trap, trick, swindle, or defraud.

  9. a person, placed in an audience, whose rehearsed or prepared reactions, comments, etc., appear spontaneous to the rest of the audience.

  10. a person placed secretly in a group or organization, as by a foreign government, to obtain internal or secret information, stir up discontent, etc.

  11. Theater.Ģża line of dialogue, or a character, action, etc., introducing an idea or theme that will be further developed at a later point in the play.

    Afterward we remembered the suicide plant in the second act.



verb (used with object)

  1. to put or set in the ground for growth, as seeds, young trees, etc.

  2. to furnish or stock (land) with plants.

    to plant a section with corn.

  3. to establish or implant (ideas, principles, doctrines, etc.).

    to plant a love for learning in growing children.

  4. to introduce (a breed of animals) into a country.

  5. to deposit (young fish, or spawn) in a river, lake, etc.

  6. to bed (oysters).

  7. to insert or set firmly in or on the ground or some other body or surface.

    to plant posts along a road.

  8. Theater.Ģżto insert or place (an idea, person, or thing) in a play.

  9. to place; put.

  10. to place with great force, firmness, or determination.

    He planted himself in the doorway as if daring us to try to enter. He planted a big kiss on his son's cheek.

  11. to station; post.

    to plant a police officer on every corner.

  12. to locate; situate.

    Branch stores are planted all over.

  13. to establish (a colony, city, etc.); found.

  14. to settle (persons), as in a colony.

  15. to say or place (something) in order to obtain a desired result, especially one that will seem spontaneous.

    The police planted the story in the newspaper in order to trap the thief.

  16. Carpentry.Ģżto nail, glue, or otherwise attach (a molding or the like) to a surface.

  17. to place (a person) secretly in a group to function as a spy or to promote discord.

  18. Slang.Ģżto hide or conceal, as stolen goods.

plant

1

/ ±č±ōɑː²Ō³Ł /

noun

  1. any living organism that typically synthesizes its food from inorganic substances, possesses cellulose cell walls, responds slowly and often permanently to a stimulus, lacks specialized sense organs and nervous system, and has no powers of locomotion

  2. such an organism that is green, terrestrial, and smaller than a shrub or tree; a herb

  3. a cutting, seedling, or similar structure, esp when ready for transplantation

  4. informalĢża thing positioned secretly for discovery by another, esp in order to incriminate an innocent person

  5. billiards snooker a position in which the cue ball can be made to strike an intermediate which then pockets another ball

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verb

  1. (often foll by out) to set (seeds, crops, etc) into (ground) to grow

  2. to place firmly in position

  3. to establish; found

  4. to implant in the mind

  5. slangĢżto deliver (a blow)

  6. informalĢżto position or hide, esp in order to deceive or observe

  7. to place (young fish, oysters, spawn, etc) in (a lake, river, etc) in order to stock the water

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

plant

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/ ±č±ōɑː²Ō³Ł /

noun

    1. the land, buildings, and equipment used in carrying on an industrial, business, or other undertaking or service

    2. ( as modifier )

      plant costs

  1. a factory or workshop

  2. mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc

ā€œCollins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridgedā€ 2012 Digital Edition Ā© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 Ā© HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

plant

  1. Any of a wide variety of multicellular eukaryotic organisms, belonging to the kingdom Plantae and including the bryophytes and vascular plants. Plant cells have cell walls made of cellulose. Except for a few specialized symbionts, plants have chlorophyll and manufacture their own food through photosynthesis. Most plants grow in a fixed location and reproduce sexually, showing an alternation of generations between a diploid stage (with each cell having two sets of chromosomes) and haploid stage (with each cell having one set of chromosomes) in their life cycle. The first fossil plants date from the Silurian period. Formerly the algae, slime molds, dinoflagellates, and fungi, among other groups, were classified as plants, but now these are considered to belong to other kingdoms.

  2. See Table at taxonomy

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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • plantable adjective
  • plantless adjective
  • plantlike adjective
  • misplant verb (used with object)
  • overplant verb (used with object)
  • preplant verb (used with object)
  • self-planted adjective
  • subplant noun
  • underplant verb (used with object)
  • unplantable adjective
  • unplanted adjective
  • well-planted adjective
  • ˈ±č±ō²¹²Ō³Ł²¹²ś±ō±š adjective
  • ˈ±č±ō²¹²Ō³ŁĖŒ±ō¾±°ģ±š adjective
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of plant1

First recorded before 900; Middle English noun plaunt(e), plant(e); in part continuing Old English plante ā€œsapling, young plant,ā€ from Latin planta ā€œa shoot, sprig, scion (for planting), plantā€; in part from Old French plante, from Latin planta; Middle English verb plaunten, planten; in part continuing Old English plantian, from Latin ±č±ō²¹²Ō³ŁÄå°ł±š ā€œto plantā€; in part from Old French planter, from Latin ±č±ō²¹²Ō³ŁÄå°ł±š
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of plant1

Old English, from Latin planta a shoot, cutting

Origin of plant2

C20: special use of plant 1
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While British Steel has long supplied the track used for Britain's railways with Scunthorpe producing rail since 1865, the latest deal provides guaranteed work for the plant for at least the next five years.

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The head of the global nuclear watchdog says there has been no further damage to Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment plant since Israel struck the country's nuclear sites on Friday.

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A bioethanol plant will be forced to close "imminently" unless the government acts, according to its operator.

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That moment of Royal Assent happened at around 18:00 on Saturday night and with that those officials could head into the plant, after emergency legislation was rushed through Parliament in a single day.

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"It's not just about the money, it's the principle," he explains, cats winding through potted plants as he talks.

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