How to pronounce “plant”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
• (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
• (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
• (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
• (countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
• (uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
• An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
• (slang, obsolete) A stash or cache of hidden goods.
• Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
• A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
• (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
• (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
• (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
• (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
• An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
• (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
• (control theory) A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
• (UK, slang, obsolete) A position in the street to sell from; a pitch.
• [Verb]
• (ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
• (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
• (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
• (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
• (transitive) To place in the ground.
• (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
• (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
• (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
• (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.

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