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ALL meanings of plant

plant
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  • verb transitive plant to deliver (a punch, blow, etc.) with force 0
  • verb transitive plant to put a stock of (oysters, young fish, etc.) in a body of water 0
  • verb transitive plant to furnish or stock with animals 0
  • verb transitive plant to settle (a colony, colonists, etc.); found; establish 0
  • verb transitive plant to set firmly as into the ground; fix in position 0
  • noun plant A plant is a place that contains electric generators and other equipment for producing electric energy. 0
  • verb plant If an organization plants someone somewhere, they send that person there so that they can get information or watch someone secretly. 0
  • verb plant If something such as a weapon or drugs is planted on someone, it is put among their possessions or in their house so that they will be wrongly accused of a crime. 0
  • verb plant To plant something such as a bomb means to hide it somewhere so that it explodes or works there. 0
  • verb plant If you plant something somewhere, you put it there firmly. 0
  • uncountable noun plant Plant is large machinery that is used in industrial processes. 0
  • countable noun plant A plant is a factory or a place where power is produced. 0
  • verb plant When someone plants land with a particular type of plant or crop, they put plants, seeds, or young trees into the land to grow them there. 0
  • verb plant When you plant a seed, plant, or young tree, you put it into the ground so that it will grow there. 0
  • countable noun plant A plant is a living thing that grows in the earth and has a stem, leaves, and roots. 0
  • noun plant the land, buildings, and equipment used in carrying on an industrial, business, or other undertaking or service 0
  • verb plant If you plant an idea in someone's mind, they begin to accept the idea without realizing that it has originally come from you and not from them. 0
  • noun plant 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 0
  • noun plant such an organism that is green, terrestrial, and smaller than a shrub or tree; a herb 0
  • noun plant a cutting, seedling, or similar structure, esp when ready for transplantation 0
  • noun plant a thing positioned secretly for discovery by another, esp in order to incriminate an innocent person 0
  • noun plant a position in which the cue ball can be made to strike an intermediate which then pockets another ball 0
  • verb plant to set (seeds, crops, etc) into (ground) to grow 0
  • verb plant to place firmly in position 0
  • verb plant to establish; found 0
  • verb plant to implant in the mind 0
  • verb plant to deliver (a blow) 0
  • verb plant to position or hide, esp in order to deceive or observe 0
  • verb plant to place (young fish, oysters, spawn, etc) in (a lake, river, etc) in order to stock the water 0
  • verb plant If you plant a kiss on someone, you give them a kiss. 0
  • noun plant (as modifier) 0
  • noun plant a factory or workshop 0
  • noun plant mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc 0
  • noun plant 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 thallophytes and embryophytes 0
  • noun plant a young tree, shrub, or herb, ready to put into other soil for growth to maturity; a slip, cutting, or set 0
  • noun plant an herb, as distinguished from a tree or shrub 0
  • noun plant the tools, machinery, buildings, grounds, etc. of a factory or business 0
  • noun plant the equipment, buildings, etc. of any institution, as a hospital, school, etc. 0
  • noun plant the apparatus or equipment for some particular mechanical operation or process 0
  • noun plant a person placed, or thing planned or used, to trick, mislead, or trap 0
  • verb transitive plant to put into soil, esp. into the ground, to grow 0
  • verb transitive plant to set plants in (a piece of ground) 0
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