Plant definition
To set plants in (a piece of ground)
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(slang) A person placed, or thing planned or used, to trick, mislead, or trap.
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Plants are 90% water, while the percentage of water in animals goes as low as 75%.
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To put a stock of (oysters, young fish, etc.) in a body of water.
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(slang) A scheming trick; a swindle.
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A plant is a living organism with multiple cells that produce its food through photosynthesis.
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To fix in the mind; implant (an idea, etc.)
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A plant is a person who has been secretly placed into a situation in order to report back to someone.
An example of plant is an undercover FBI agent acting as a drug dealer.
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A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory.
Works in an auto plant.
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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.
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A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.
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Any of various fungi, algae, or protists that resemble plants and were formerly classified in the plant kingdom. Not in scientific use.
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The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution.
The university's mechanical plant.
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To establish; found.
Plant a colony.
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To conceal; hide.
Planted the stolen goods in the warehouse.
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To place or set (seeds, for example) in the ground to grow.
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To place seeds or young plants in (land); sow.
Plant a field in corn.
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To place (spawn or young fish) in water or an underwater bed for cultivation.
Plant oysters.
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To stock with spawn or fish.
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To place or fix in a certain position.
Planted both feet on the ground; planted a kiss on my cheek.
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To deliver (a punch or blow).
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To fix firmly in the mind; implant.
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To station (a person) for the purpose of functioning in secret, as by observing, spying, or influencing behavior.
Detectives were planted all over the store.
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To place secretly or deceptively so as to be discovered or made public.
Planted a gun on the corpse to make the death look like suicide.
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(slang) To deliver (a punch, blow, etc.) with force.
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To put into soil, esp. into the ground, to grow.
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To place (a person or thing) in such a way as to trick, trap, etc.
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To place (an ostensible news item) in a newspaper, etc. with some ulterior motive, as in order to mold public opinion.
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To hide or conceal.
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To place (something) surreptitiously where it is certain to be found or discovered.
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Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
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To place in the ground.
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To furnish or supply with plants.
To plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
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To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
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To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To plant a colony.
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To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To plant Christianity among the heathen.
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To set up; to install; to instate.
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To furnish or stock with animals.
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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.
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The definition of a plant is a factory.
An example of plant is where running shoes are produced.
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Plant means to put something in the ground.
An example of plant is putting a zucchini seedling in soil.
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The amount of water needed by a plant depends on its type, how much light it gets, and how old the plant is.
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The reason plants wilt when they are not watered properly is because of a reduction in their turgor, the water pressure inside the cells that make up the plants’ skeletons.
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Plants exchange water for carbon dioxide to make food.
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Some plants curl up their leaves in the winter to limit the amount of leaf surface exposed to drying winds, which limits evaporation and keeps the plant hydrated.
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Plants that grow in the snow include: evergreens, Chinese juniper and oleaster (often called the Russian Olive).
An example of a plant is a flower or vegetable.
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A person or thing put into place in order to mislead or function secretly, especially:
- A person placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior.
- A person stationed in a given location as a spy or observer.
- A misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered.
- A remark or action in a play or narrative that becomes important later.
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An asset category that describes certain fixed assets listed on a company’s balance sheet, such as buildings, manufacturing facilities, and offices. See also fixed asset.
(botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
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(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
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An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
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(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
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Knotty legs and plants of clay.
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(dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
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To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
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To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
To plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground.
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To settle (a colony, colonists, etc.); found; establish.
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To introduce (an animal) into an area.
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Any of a kingdom (Plantae) of eukaryotes generally characterized by the ability to carry on photosynthesis in its cells which contain chloroplasts and have cellulose in the cell wall, including all embryophytes and, formerly, thallophytes.
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A young tree, shrub, or herb, ready to put into other soil for growth to maturity; a slip, cutting, or set.
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An herb, as distinguished from a tree or shrub.
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The tools, machinery, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business.
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The equipment, buildings, etc. of any institution, as a hospital, school, etc.
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The apparatus or equipment for some particular mechanical operation or process.
The power plant of a ship.
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To set firmly as into the ground; fix in position.
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Origin of plant
- Middle English plante from Old English Old French both from Latin planta sprout, seedling plat- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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