ALL meanings of planting
plant
P p - noun planting act of planting seeds 1
- noun planting placing sth to entrap 1
- noun planting any 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, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis. 1
- noun planting an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub. 1
- noun planting a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting. 1
- noun planting the equipment, including the fixtures, machinery, tools, etc., and often the buildings, necessary to carry on any industrial business: a manufacturing plant. 1
- noun planting the complete equipment or apparatus for a particular mechanical process or operation: the heating plant for a home. 1
- noun planting the buildings, equipment, etc., of an institution: the sprawling plant of the university. 1
- noun planting Slang. something intended to trap, decoy, or lure, as criminals. 1
- noun planting Slang. a scheme to trap, trick, swindle, or defraud. 1
- noun planting a person, placed in an audience, whose rehearsed or prepared reactions, comments, etc., appear spontaneous to the rest of the audience. 1
- noun planting a person placed secretly in a group or organization, as by a foreign government, to obtain internal or secret information, stir up discontent, etc. 1
- noun planting Theater. a 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. 1
- verb with object planting to put or set in the ground for growth, as seeds, young trees, etc. 1
- verb with object planting to furnish or stock (land) with plants: to plant a section with corn. 1
- verb with object planting to establish or implant (ideas, principles, doctrines, etc.): to plant a love for learning in growing children. 1
- verb with object planting to introduce (a breed of animals) into a country. 1
- verb with object planting to deposit (young fish, or spawn) in a river, lake, etc. 1
- verb with object planting to bed (oysters). 1
- verb with object planting to insert or set firmly in or on the ground or some other body or surface: to plant posts along a road. 1
- verb with object planting Theater. to insert or place (an idea, person, or thing) in a play. 1
- verb with object planting to place; put. 1
- verb with object planting 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. 1
- verb with object planting to station; post: to plant a police officer on every corner. 1
- verb with object planting to locate; situate: Branch stores are planted all over. 1
- verb with object planting to establish (a colony, city, etc.); found. 1
- verb with object planting to settle (persons), as in a colony. 1
- verb with object planting 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. 1
- verb with object planting Carpentry. to nail, glue, or otherwise attach (a molding or the like) to a surface. 1
- verb with object planting to place (a person) secretly in a group to function as a spy or to promote discord. 1
- verb with object planting Slang. to hide or conceal, as stolen goods. 1
- noun planting the act of setting seeds, crops, etc into the ground to grow 0
- noun planting the act or an instance of putting seeds or young plants into the soil 0
- noun planting something planted, as in a decorative garden or along a border 0