plant
noun
1. buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles
Similar word(s): works
Definition categories: man–made, complex
2. (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
Similar word(s): flora
Definition categories: general, being, organism
3. an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
Definition categories: person, actor, histrion, player, thespian
4. 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
Definition categories: thought, contrivance, dodge, stratagem
Sentences with plant as a noun:
- The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
- That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
verb
1. put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- Let's plant flowers in the garden
Similar word(s): set
Definition categories: contact, lay, place, pose, position, put, set
2. fix or set securely or deeply
- He planted a knee in the back of his opponent
- The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum
Similar word(s): embed, engraft, imbed, implant
Definition categories: contact, enter, infix, insert, introduce
3. set up or lay the groundwork for
Similar word(s): constitute, establish, found, institute
Definition categories: creation, initiate, pioneer
4. place into a river
- plant fish
Definition categories: possession, stock
5. place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
- Plant a spy in Moscow
- plant bugs in the dissident's apartment
Definition categories: contact, lay, place, pose, position, put, set
6. put firmly in the mind
- Plant a thought in the students' minds
Similar word(s): implant
Definition categories: cognition, communicate, pass
Sentences with plant as a verb:
- That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
- Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
- to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
- to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
- to plant a colony
- to plant Christianity among the heathen