| Engels > Nederlands |
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| plant |
| 1. (ik) plant |
| 2. (we) planten |
| 3. planten, poten |
| 4. plant, gewas |
| Engels > Engels |
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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. |
| The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border. |
| 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 |
| 3. n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. |
| 4. n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi. |
| 5. n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility. |
| 6. n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person. |
| That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before! |
| 7. n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation). |
| 8. n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc. |
| 9. n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set. |
| 10. n. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction. |
| 11. n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. |
| 12. n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot. |
| 13. n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick. |
| 14. n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. |
| 15. n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. |
| 16. v. To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow. |
| 17. v. To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit. |
| That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer! |
| 18. v. To place or set something firmly or with conviction. |
| 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 |
| 19. v. To place in the ground. |
| 20. v. To furnish or supply with plants. |
| to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest |
| 21. v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. |
| 22. v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish. |
| to plant a colony |
| 23. v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of. |
| to plant Christianity among the heathen |
| 24. v. To set up; to install; to instate. |
| Nederlands > Engels |
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| plant |
| 1. n-f. (topics, Lifeforms) plant, any member of the kingdom Plantae |
| 2. n-f. (potentially offensive) cabbage, vegetable (person with severe brain damage) |
| 3. v. imperative of planten |
| 4. v. plural imperative of plannen |
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