PLANT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Plant

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/plænt/ Listen

Plant

noun

Buildings for carrying on industrial labor. Synonyms: industrial plant, works.

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

An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience.

Something planted secretly for discovery by another. "He claimed that the evidence against him was a plant"

verb

(past & past part. planted; pres. part. planting)

Put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground. Synonym: set.

Fix or set securely or deeply. Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, implant. "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"

Set up or lay the groundwork for. Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, institute.

Place into a river.

Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive. "Plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"

Put firmly in the mind. Synonym: implant.

See more definitions of Plant...

See images of 'Plant'

Related searches:

Australian pitcher plant

1 2 3 4 5 Next

Share |

"Plant" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Hall did really require the tools of the workman; but I hope my dear mother's rooms have been left undisturbed to any great extent. It is well for us who have not gone to the extreme in our craze for the novelties that those who have cannot plant their ladder to the sky and retint in aesthetic, or according to Oscar ...

— A Heart-Song of To-day • Annie Gregg Savigny

... feel you have time to go over it—don't want to keep the Danburg crowd waiting—I can tell you that the plant is pretty nearly all right. So much all right that you can afford to slip 'em a couple of thousand apiece on top of what they have already spent. I don't suppose you want 'em to holler too loud. I can tell you that Davis, Erskine, and Owen—those men out ...

— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day

... with climate, is seen in a remarkable degree in Indian corn. The small Canada variety, growing only three feet high and ripening in seventy to ninety days when carried southward, gradually enlarges in the whole plant until it may be grown twelve feet high and upwards, and requires one hundred and fifty days to ripen its seed. A southern variety brought northward, gradually dwindles in size and ripens earlier until it reaches a type specially fitted ...

— The Principles of Breeding • S. L. Goodale

... eat gua-na-co and ostrich meat. Some of the people drink a kind of tea made from the leaves of a plant. The leaves are first crushed fine, then put into water. They drink this tea through a small tube with many holes in it. The holes are so small that the pieces of leaves cannot come through. This tea is very good to drink. It makes ...

— Big People and Little People of Other Lands • Edward R. Shaw

... of the expedition of Roberval, Francis abandoned the attempt to discover new countries, or plant colonies in America; but his successors, though much later, entered upon the colonization of New France. They inherited his rights, and while they acknowledged the discoveries of Cartier they discredited ...

— The Voyage of Verrazzano • Henry C. Murphy

More quotes...