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English to English noun
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buildings for carrying on industrial labor |  | Example: they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles
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(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion | | source: wordnet30
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an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience | | source: wordnet30
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something planted secretly for discovery by another | | Example: the police used a plant to trick the thieves
he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant
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A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule. | | source: webster1913 verb
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put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | | Example: Let's plant flowers in the garden
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fix or set securely or deeply | | Example: He planted a knee in the back of his opponent
The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum
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set up or lay the groundwork for | | Example: establish a new department
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place into a river | | Example: plant fish
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place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | | Example: Plant a spy in Moscow
plant bugs in the dissident's apartment
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put firmly in the mind | | Example: Plant a thought in the students' minds
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To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. | | source: webster1913
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To perform the act of planting. | | source: webster1913
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