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Definition of 'plant'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) plant
any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that produce food from sunlight and inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.

2.  plant
an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or shrub.

3.  plant
a seedling or a growing slip, esp. one ready for transplanting.

4.  plant
a factory, workshop, etc., where a product is manufactured.

5.  plant
the equipment, machinery, tools, etc., necessary to carry on any industrial business.

6.  plant
the complete equipment or apparatus for a particular mechanical operation:
a heating plant.

7.  plant
the buildings, equipment, etc., of an institution:
the university plant.

8.  plant
a scheme to trap, trick, or defraud.

9.  plant
a person or thing placed secretly or strategically, as to gather information, provoke responses, or advance a plot or scheme.

10. (v.t.) plant
to put or set in the ground for growth, as seeds, shrubs, or young trees.

11.  plant
to furnish or stock (land) with plants.

12.  plant
to establish or implant (ideas, principles, etc.).

13.  plant
to bed (oysters).

14.  plant
to insert or set firmly in or on the ground:
to plant fence posts.

15.  plant
to place; put.

16.  plant
to place or station with great force or determination:
He planted himself in the doorway.

17.  plant
to place (something) in order to advance a plot, obtain a desired result, etc.:
The police planted a story in the newspaper to trap the thief.

18.  plant
to place (a person) secretly in a situation, as to gather information or stir up reactions:
to plant a spy.

19.  plant
to hide or conceal, as stolen goods.

20.  plant
to settle or found (a colony, etc.).

21. (v.i.) plant
to plant crops, seeds, etc.

Etymology: (bef. 900; (n.) ME plaunte (< OF plante), OE plante < L planta a shoot, plant; (v.) ME plaunten (< OF planter), OE plantian < L plantāre, der. of the n.)

Definition of 'plant'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) plant, works, industrial plant
buildings for carrying on industrial labor
"they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"

2. (noun) plant, flora, plant life
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

3. (noun) plant
an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

4. (verb) plant
something planted secretly for discovery by another
"the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant"

5. (verb) plant, set
put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
"Let's plant flowers in the garden"

6. (verb) implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant
fix or set securely or deeply
"He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"

7. (verb) establish, found, plant, constitute, institute
set up or lay the groundwork for
"establish a new department"

8. (verb) plant
place into a river
"plant fish"

9. (verb) plant
place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
"Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"

10. (verb) plant, implant
put firmly in the mind
"Plant a thought in the students' minds"

Definition of 'plant'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) plant
a living thing with leaves and roots
plants in the garden; a flowering plant

2.  plant
a large factory
a power/coal/nuclear plant

3. (verb) plant
to put a plant or seeds into the ground to grow
residents planting trees in the neighborhood

4.  plant
to put firmly in place
She planted her feet and refused to move.

5.  plant
to put sth illegal in sb's possession, so it is believed they are guilty of a crime
He swore someone had planted the drugs in his suitcase.

6.  plant
to put a bomb somewhere
They planted a bomb outside the embassy.

Definition of 'plant'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) plant
a vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule

2. (noun) plant
a bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff

3. (noun) plant
the sole of the foot

4. (noun) plant
the whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad

5. (noun) plant
a plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick

6. (noun) plant
an oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth

7. (noun) plant
a young oyster suitable for transplanting

8. (noun) plant
to put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize

9. (noun) plant
to set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots

10. (noun) plant
to furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

11. (noun) plant
to engender; to generate; to set the germ of

12. (noun) plant
to furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony

13. (noun) plant
to introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen

14. (noun) plant
to set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face

15. (noun) plant
to set up; to install; to instate

16. (verb) plant
to perform the act of planting

Definition of 'plant'

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. plant
The apparatus for commercial manufacturing or technical works. An electric lighting plant includes the boilers, engines and dynamos for producing the current, and the electric mains and subsidiary apparatus.

Translation of 'plant'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: anything growing from the ground, having a stem, a root and leaves flowering/tropical plants.
Afrikaans: plant	Arabic: نَبات	Bulgarian: растение
Brazilian: planta	Czech: rostlina	German: die Pflanze
Danish: plante; vækst	Greek: φυτό	Spanish: planta
Estonian: taim	Farsi: گیاه	Finnish: kasvi
French: plante	Hebrew: צֶמָח	Hindi: वनस्पति
Croatian: biljka	Hungarian: növény	Indonesian: tumbuhan
Icelandic: planta, jurt	Italian: pianta	Japanese: 植物
Korean: 식물	Lithuanian: augalas, sodinukas	Latvian: augs; stāds
Malay: tumbuh-tumbuhan	Dutch: plant	Norwegian: plante
Polish: roślina	Persian: گیاه	Pashto: بوټى
Portuguese: planta	Romanian: plantă	Russian: растение
Slovak: rastlina	Slovenian: rastlina	Serbian: biljka
Swedish: planta, växt, ört	Thai: พืช	Turkish: bitki
Taiwanese: 植物	Ukrainian: рослина	Urdu: پودا
Vietnamese: thực vật	Chinese: 植物
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