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NOUN | 1 | plant, works, industrial plant | Buildings for carrying on industrial labor |
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2 | plant, flora, plant life | A living organism lacking the power of locomotion | |
3 | plant | Something planted secretly for discovery by another | |
4 | plant | An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience | |
VERB | 1 | plant, set | Put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground |
2 | plant, implant, engraft, embed, imbed | Fix or set securely or deeply | |
3 | plant, establish, found, constitute, institute | Set up or lay the groundwork for | |
4 | plant | Place into a river | |
5 | plant | Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | |
6 | plant, implant | Put firmly in the mind |
Sounds | plae'nt |
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Rhymes | ant, aunt, Brandt, and 21 more rhymes in aent at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Buildings for carrying on industrial labor. |
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Examples | "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles" |
Synonyms | works, industrial plant |
Narrower | bottling plant; distillery, still; factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory; mint; packinghouse, packing plant; recycling plant; refinery; saltworks; sewage disposal plant, disposal plant; smelter, smeltery |
Broader | building complex, complex |
Meaning | A living organism lacking the power of locomotion. |
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Synonyms | flora, plant life |
Category of | acid-loving; alkaline-loving; apocarpous; syncarpous; sedgy; floccose; hispid; pappose; carnivorous; saprophytic; insectivorous; etiolate, etiolated, blanched; half-hardy; tender; dicotyledonous; monocotyledonous; evergreen; deciduous; campylotropous; orthotropous; anatropous, inverted; amphitropous; epiphytotic; amentiferous, amentaceous; caespitose, cespitose, tufted; clustered; leggy, tall-growing; lopped, lopped off; pruned; endangered; threatened; phytotherapy, herbal therapy, botanical medicine; microorganism; parasite; coca; gas system; fugacity, fugaciousness; circulation; mescal; vegetation, flora; horticulturist, plantsman; squamule; nitrification; perennation; photosynthesis; alder blight; peroxidase; tenderizer, tenderiser; propagate; etiolate; bruise; domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame; accrete; girdle, deaden |
Member of | Plantae, kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom |
Parts | plant part, plant structure |
Narrower | phytoplankton; endemic; plantlet; wilding; ornamental; pot plant; acrogen; apomict; aquatic; cryptogam; annual; biennial; perennial; escape; hygrophyte; neophyte; embryo; monocarp, monocarpic plant, monocarpous plant; sporophyte; gametophyte; fungus; houseplant; garden plant; vascular plant, tracheophyte; poisonous plant; air plant, epiphyte, aerophyte, epiphytic plant; rock plant; autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism; myrmecophyte |
Broader | organism, being |
Adjectives | plantal |
Verbs | plant |
Meaning | Something planted secretly for discovery by another. |
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Examples | "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant" |
Broader | contrivance, stratagem, dodge |
Verbs | plant |
Meaning | An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience. |
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Broader | actor, histrion, player, thespian, role player |
Meaning | Put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | They plant rye in the field |
Examples | "Let's plant flowers in the garden" |
Synonyms | set |
Narrower | root; puddle; checkrow; bed; dibble; afforest, forest; replant |
Broader | put, set, place, pose, position, lay |
Nouns | plant; planting; planter |
Meaning | Fix or set securely or deeply. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" |
Synonyms | implant, engraft, embed, imbed |
Narrower | pot; nest; bury, sink |
Broader | insert, infix, enter, introduce |
Nouns | planting |
Meaning | Set up or lay the groundwork for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | establish, found, constitute, institute |
Narrower | fix; appoint, name, nominate, constitute |
Broader | initiate, pioneer |
Meaning | Place into a river. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "plant fish" |
Category | animal husbandry |
Broader | stock |
Meaning | Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment" |
Broader | put, set, place, pose, position, lay |
Nouns | plant |
Meaning | Put firmly in the mind. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP |
Model | They won't plant the story |
Examples | "Plant a thought in the students' minds" |
Synonyms | implant |
Broader | communicate, pass on, pass, put across |