plant
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1. plant - Noun
2. plant - Verb
3. Plant - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
The sole of the foot.
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.
A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
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.
To perform the act of planting.
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With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.
Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Не that goes barefoot must not plant thorns.
I eat what others have planted and I plant what others want to eat.
Don't plant a seed in the sea.