Plant (Noun)
Meaning 1
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".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
Buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles".
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The city is investing heavily in new sustainable energy, and has recently built a plant that harnesses wind power.
- Construction of the plant took three years, and employed over a thousand local workers during the building phase.
- At full capacity, the steel plant is able to produce over a thousand tons of high-quality metal each month.
- Her career involved moving around a lot as the new gas processing plant always seems to open somewhere she hasn't been yet.
- Thanks to grants, new public sector environmental plants would encourage workers across every energy network
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Meaning 3
An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 4
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion.
Classification
Unique beginner for nouns.
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- Epiphytic Plant
- Autophytic Plant
- Monocarpous Plant
- Monocarpic Plant
- Autotrophic Organism
- Autotroph
- Tracheophyte
- Epiphyte
- Aerophyte