Sekirov Dictionary

plant

UK /plɑːnt/US /plænt/

noun 19
verb 9
forms 7
phrases 3

noun19

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a living thing that is not an animal, usually green and smaller than a tree, such as grass or a flower
- The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
An organism of the kingdom Plantae, and 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.
Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
(nonstandard) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
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A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- The company has production plants in three countries.
- My dad worked at the plant for 27 years.
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Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
- A massive amount of plant has been trucked in and installed over the past two years, and production is expected to begin soon.
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(Australia) The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
- Nigger smoke-talks had told him of the patrol and of Felix’s mustering plant. Once he had absorbed the ‘outside’ news the night’s new the conversation started in earnest. — 1937
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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!
Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
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A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
- O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds. — 2008
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
(dialect, US) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
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(slang, old-fashioned) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
- It wasn’t a bad plant that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou’ Westeru Railway debentures—it was only t’ other day—because the reason why? I’ll tell you. — 1850
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(no longer used) A young tree, vine, shrub, or herb; a sapling.
- Take, Shepherd, take a Plant of stubborn Oak; / And labour him with many a sturdy stroke: / Or with hard Stones, demolish from afar / His haughty Crest, the feat of all the War. — 1694
(slang, no longer used) A stash or cache of hidden goods.
(slang, no longer used) A position in the street to sell from; a pitch.
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(no longer used) The sole of the foot.
- Knotty legs, and plants of clay, / Seek for ease, or love delay. — 1611

verb9

To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
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To place in the ground.
- God moves in a mysterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footsteps in the sea, / And rides upon the storm. — 1780
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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.
- to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one’s feet on solid ground
- Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
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To furnish or supply with plants.
- His father had given him a little square bed in a corner of the garden, which he had planted with corn two days before. — 1848
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To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- It engenders choler, planteth anger. — 1590
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
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To set up; to install; to instate.
- We will plant some other in the throne. — 1593
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To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- planting of countries like planting of woods — 1625

forms

planted · plantedst · planting · planteth · plants · plantest · plantae

Phrases with plant

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