Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically containing chloroplasts, having cell walls made of cellulose, producing embryos, and lacking the power of locomotion. Plants include trees, bushes, herbs, ferns, mosses, and certain green algae.
- noun A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.
- noun Any of various fungi, algae, or protists that resemble plants and were formerly classified in the plant kingdom. Not in scientific use.
- noun A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory.
- noun The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution.
- noun A person or thing put into place in order to mislead or function secretly, especially.
- noun A person placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior.
- noun A person stationed in a given location as a spy or observer.
- noun A misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered.
- noun A remark or action in a play or narrative that becomes important later.
- noun Slang A scheming trick; a swindle.
- transitive verb To place or set (seeds, for example) in the ground to grow.
- transitive verb To place seeds or young plants in (land); sow.
- transitive verb To place (spawn or young fish) in water or an underwater bed for cultivation.
- transitive verb To stock with spawn or fish.
- transitive verb To introduce (an animal) into an area.
- transitive verb To place or fix in a certain position.
- transitive verb To deliver (a punch or blow).
- transitive verb To fix firmly in the mind; implant.
- transitive verb To establish; found.
- transitive verb To station (a person) for the purpose of functioning in secret, as by observing, spying, or influencing behavior.
- transitive verb To place secretly or deceptively so as to be discovered or made public.
- transitive verb To conceal; hide.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In billiards generally, the lay or position of balls; in pocket-pool, a sure shot from frozen balls; in one kind of pin-pool, a procedure by which a player may unwittingly make another, instead of himself, winner of the stakes.
- In chess, to play (a piece) to a square whence it cannot easily be dislodged.
- noun A shoot or slip recently sprouted from seed, or rooted as a cutting or layer; especially. such a slip ready for transplanting, as one of the cabbage-plants, tomato-plants, etc., of the market.
- noun A sapling; hence, a stick or staff; a cudgel.
- noun An herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with trees.
- noun An individual living being with a material organism, not animal in its nature; a member of the vegetable kingdom; a vegetable, in the widest sense
- noun The fixtures, machinery, tools, apparatus, appliances, etc., necessary to carry on any trade or mechanical business, or any mechanical operation or process.
- noun Concealed plunder.
- noun A trick; dodge; swindle; artifice.
- noun In fish-culture, a deposit of fry or eggs.
- noun plural Oysters which have been bedded: in distinction from
natives : as, Virginia plants. - noun plural Young oysters suitable for planting or transplantation.
- To put or set in the ground for growth, as seed, young shoots, cuttings, vegetables with roots, etc.: as, to
plant potatoes; to plant trees. - To lay out and prepare by putting or setting seed, etc., in the ground; furnish with plants: as, to plant a garden or an orchard.
- To implant; sow the seeds or germs of; engender.
- To put; place; set; especially, to post or place firmly in position; fix; set up: as, he planted himself in front of me; to plant a standard on the enemy's battlements.
- To establish or set up for the first time; introduce and establish: as, to
plant Christianity among the heathen; to plant a colony. - To furnish; provide with something that is set in position or in order.
- To introduce and establish new settlers in; settle; colonize.
- To place or locate as colonists or settlers.
- To hide; conceal; place in concealment, as plunder or swag.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes, they were behind the plant, I was in front of the plant
Yesterday's Adventures in the Life of Barbarella barbylon 2002
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Yes, they were behind the plant, I was in front of the plant
Yesterday's Adventures in the Life of Barbarella barbylon 2002
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_The plant bore the "Jacks," _ standing by itself, is a complete sentence; but by using _that_ for _plant_ the whole expression is made to do the work of an adjective.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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_The plant bore the "Jacks," _ standing by itself, is a complete sentence; but by using _that_ for _plant_ the whole expression is made to do the work of an adjective.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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_The plant bore the "Jacks," _ standing by itself, is a complete sentence; but by using _that_ for _plant_ the whole expression is made to do the work of an adjective.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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Settle, then, which -- plant or ivy -- Dickens supposed the reader to know least about, and which, therefore, Dickens was telling him about; and you settle which word -- _plant_ or _ivy_ -- is the subject.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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It is a significant fact, however, that the plant experimented with by the Commission was _cress -- a non-leguminous plant_.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Juan de Sousa stood immediately on his defence, and sent advice to the viceroy and the neighbouring commanders of his danger, trusting however to the strength of his defences, and particularly to a pallisade or _bound hedge_, which he had made of the plant named _lechera_ or the _milk plant_, which throws out when cut a milky liquor which is sure to blind any one if it touches their eyes.
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If this is done any time in the winter, by the autumn following they will have taken good root; the ftrongeft of which layers will be then fit to plant out; whilft thofe that are weaker may be plant* ed in the nurfcry-ground, to gain ftrength.
Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise 1785
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That's because public utility commissions usually have to show that the power from a certain plant is needed by their customers before they can give their approval and pass on the huge costs of building the lines.
karpkatamala commented on the word plant
The Devil rose to his feet and planted himself opposite.
January 18, 2018