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| power plant |
| 1. n. A station built for the production of electric power; a power station. |
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| All of this areas power comes from the nuclear power plant across the river. |
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| 2. n. The portion of a vehicle devoted to providing energy for motion; the engine or motor. |
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| A train without the power plant is just a bunch of metal boxes on wheels. |
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| Power |
| 1. n. A button of a computer, a video game console, or similar device, that when pressed, causes the device to be either shut down or powered up. |
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| 2. n. (social) Ability to coerce, influence or control. |
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| 3. n. Ability to affect or influence. |
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| 4. n. Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction). |
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| 5. n. (metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government. |
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| plant |
| 1. n. (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. |
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| The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border. |
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| 2. n. (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 chloro |
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| 3. n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. |
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| 4. n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi. |
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