Plants - English meaning

noun

A person who acts on behalf of another person or group.

Usage examples:

In the event of illness, a durable power of attorney enabled her nephew to act as her agent

noun

A person who acts for or represents another

Usage examples:

A travel agent, he is the agent for several of the highest paid players in baseball., a secret agen…

noun

A person who is paid to buy or sell products or provide a service for a company, but who is not a regular employee

Usage examples:

Following the recent insurance scam, legislation is being put in place to ensure all agents protect…

noun

A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.

Usage examples:

A clothing factory

verb

Fasten (something) securely in a particular place or position.

Usage examples:

They had candles fixed to their helmets

noun

A difficult or awkward situation from which it is hard to extricate oneself; a predicament.

Usage examples:

How on earth did you get into such a fix?

verb

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

noun

The plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.

Usage examples:

Britain's native flora

proper noun

The goddess of flowering plants.

noun

All the plants of a particular area or period of time

noun

The seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs (stamens and carpels) that are typically surrounded by a brightly coloured corolla (petals) and a green calyx (sepals).

Usage examples:

The pistil and the stamen of the flowers are the specialized organs responsible for the reproductiv…

verb

(of a plant) produce flowers; bloom.

Usage examples:

Michaelmas daisies can flower as late as october

noun

The part of a plant that produces seeds, is often brightly colored, and sometimes has a pleasant smell, or a plant that produces this part

Usage examples:

Our shrubs flower in late summer.

noun

A workshop or factory for casting metal.

Usage examples:

However, there is more to manufacturing than the industries which once provided the bulk of the job…

noun

A factory where metal is melted and poured into specially shaped containers to produce machine parts

noun

A factory where metal is melted and poured into specially shaped containers to produce objects

Usage examples:

Steel/iron/bronze/foundry electric furnaces are used almost exclusively in the steel foundry., the …

noun

Green foliage, growing plants, or vegetation.

Usage examples:

The new practice will be built around a glass central courtyard, which will be planted with shrubs …

noun

Green plants, or branches that have been cut off from plants, esp. when used as decoration

noun

Any plant with leaves, seeds, or flowers used for flavouring, food, medicine, or perfume.

Usage examples:

Bundles of dried herbs

noun

Herbaceous vegetation.

Usage examples:

After rain, tall herbage invariably collapses on to the paths

noun

A person who secretly becomes part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way the group thinks or behaves

Usage examples:

The infiltrator was identified and killed.

noun

A person who gives information to another.

Usage examples:

Tripartism allows them to extend their oversight by using other stakeholders as informants and agen…

noun

A person who tells esp. the police or newspaper reporters about something

Usage examples:

He was working as an undercover informant for the police.

noun

A person who answers questions relating to their opinions or feelings about something, so that information can be collected about it

Usage examples:

A survey informant

noun

A person who informs on another person to the police or other authority.

Usage examples:

The prosecutors knew the case details as provided by the undercover police officers, the informers …

noun

A person who tells esp. the police about someone’s criminal activities

noun

A building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour.

Usage examples:

At mills or bakeries, barley flour can be added to flours from other grains for baking.

verb

Grind (something) in a mill.

Usage examples:

Hard wheats are easily milled into white flour

noun

A monetary unit used only in calculations, worth one thousandth of a dollar.

Usage examples:

A thick paper (and later a lightweight metal) coin with a round hole in the center, the mill was wo…

noun

A small burrowing mammal with dark velvety fur, a long muzzle, and very small eyes, feeding mainly on worms, grubs, and other invertebrates.

Usage examples:

The fur of moles is velvety and can lie equally well in any direction, which allows easy movement i…

noun

A small, often slightly raised blemish on the skin made dark by a high concentration of melanin.

Usage examples:

A mole on her arm had not been there at the beginning of the summer

noun

A large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.

Usage examples:

The north and south moles connect to the shore and the seabed ascends from 30m to nothing along the…

adjective

Functioning or having effect.

Usage examples:

The transmitter is operative

noun

A worker, especially one in a manufacturing industry.

Usage examples:

The operatives clean the machines at the end of every shift

noun

A particular position, point, or area in space; a location.

Usage examples:

I can't be in two places at once

verb

Put in a particular position.

Usage examples:

A newspaper had been placed beside my plate

noun

An area, town, building, etc.

Usage examples:

Her garden was a cool pleasant place to sit., what was the name of that place we drove through on t…

verb

Set down heavily or carelessly.

Usage examples:

She plonked her glass on the table

noun

A sound as of something being set down heavily.

Usage examples:

He sat down with a plonk

noun

Cheap wine of inferior quality.

Usage examples:

We turned up at 8 p.m., each clutching a bottle of plonk

noun

A place where someone or something is located or has been put.

Usage examples:

The distress call had given the ship's position

verb

Put or arrange (someone or something) in a particular place or way.

Usage examples:

He pulled out a chair and positioned it between them

verb

Throw in various random directions.

Usage examples:

Scatter the coconut over the icing

noun

A small, dispersed amount of something.

Usage examples:

A scatter of boulders round the pothole mouth

verb

Cause to separate and go in different directions

noun

The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant.

Usage examples:

Cut open the peppers and remove the seeds

verb

Sow (land) with seeds.

Usage examples:

The shoreline is seeded with a special grass

noun

A small, usually hard part of a plant from which a new plant can grow

Usage examples:

A good defense lawyer knows how to plant these little seeds of doubt in the minds of jurors., we se…

verb

Put, lay, or stand (something) in a specified place or position.

Usage examples:

Delaney set the mug of tea down

noun

A group or collection of things that belong together or resemble one another or are usually found together.

Usage examples:

A set of false teeth

verb

Variant spelling of sett.

phrasal verb

Begin a journey.

Usage examples:

We set out from new york on friday for egypt

phrasal verb

Arrange or display something in a particular order or position.

Usage examples:

They had a picnic by the river where there was a jetty and rustic tables and chairs set out

phrasal verb

To start a journey

Usage examples:

What time will we have to set off for grandma's house tomorrow?, jenny set off down the road on her…

verb

Resolve or reach an agreement about (an argument or problem).

Usage examples:

The unions have settled their year-long dispute with hollywood producers

noun

A wooden bench with a high back and arms, typically incorporating a box under the seat.

Usage examples:

She read to her brother, who sat on the settle opposite her

verb

To get or to become comfortable

Usage examples:

[ t ] campbell settled herself in front of a blazing fire., [ i ] he settled back in his chair and …

noun

A building or part of a building where goods or services are sold.

Usage examples:

A video shop

verb

Visit one or more shops or websites to buy goods.

Usage examples:

She shopped for groceries twice a week

verb

To look for and buy (things)

Usage examples:

We shop in malls because they’re convenient., a bicycle repair shop, i work in a machine shop makin…

noun

A woody plant which is smaller than a tree and has several main stems arising at or near the ground.

Usage examples:

It is a good time to plant bare rooted shrubs and trees while the weather stays mild and the ground…

noun

A drink made of sweetened fruit juice and spirits, typically rum or brandy.

noun

A plant with a wooden stem and many small branches that usually does not grow very tall

verb

Fix or build (something) in a certain place or position.

Usage examples:

The pilot light is usually situated at the front of the boiler

adjective

Situated.

Usage examples:

The petty sessions area in which it is situate

verb

To put something in a particular position

Usage examples:

The restaurant is situated near the hudson river.

verb

Plant (seed) by scattering it on or in the earth.

Usage examples:

Fill a pot with compost and sow a thin layer of seeds on top

noun

An adult female pig, especially one which has farrowed.

Usage examples:

There are ten sows and fifty piglets at the farm

noun

A ghost.

Usage examples:

Judge steve evans takes on these unspooky spooks and non-existent ghosts - and he doesn't mind one …

verb

Frighten; unnerve.

Usage examples:

They spooked a couple of grizzly bears

noun

A person employed by a government or other organization to secretly obtain information on an enemy or competitor.

Usage examples:

They served as clerks and couriers, telephone and telegraph operators, code and cipher analysts, an…

verb

Work for a government or other organization by secretly obtaining information about enemies or competitors.

Usage examples:

He agreed to spy for the west

verb

(military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors

noun

A place on a railway line where trains regularly stop so that passengers can get on or off.

Usage examples:

We walked back to the station and caught the train back to brussels

verb

Short for stations of the cross.

noun

A building or buildings and the surrounding area where a particular service or activity takes place

Usage examples:

A train/bus station, a gas station, a police/fire station, at our house in the mountains we only ge…

noun

A thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree.

Usage examples:

Hayes picked up a fallen stick and twirled it idly between his fingers.

verb

Push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something).

Usage examples:

He stuck his fork into the sausage

verb

A long thin implement resembling a length of wood

verb

Move or transfer (someone or something) to another place or situation.

Usage examples:

It was proposed to transplant the club to the vacant site

noun

An operation in which an organ or tissue is transplanted.

Usage examples:

A heart transplant

verb

To move someone or something, or to be moved from one place to another

Usage examples:

[ t ] i transplanted those bushes to the back of the house., he survived a kidney transplant., i’m …

noun

A dense growth of shrubs and other plants, especially under trees in woodland.

Usage examples:

They cleared a path through the undergrowth

noun

A plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, turnip, or bean.

Usage examples:

Fresh fruit and vegetables

adjective

Relating to plants or plant life, especially as distinct from animal life or mineral substances.

Usage examples:

Decaying vegetable matter

noun

A plant that is used as food, or the part of a plant, such as a root, stem, or flower, that is used as food

Usage examples:

For vegetables, we eat a lot of broccoli, spinach, and corn.

noun

Plants considered collectively, especially those found in a particular area or habitat.

Usage examples:

The chalk cliffs are mainly sheer with little vegetation

noun

Plants in general, or the plants that are found in a particular area

noun

Lush green vegetation.

Usage examples:

In fact, my partner, lance, observed that the lush, manicured verdure through which we were driving…

noun

(the green colour of) fresh, healthy plants

noun

A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.

Usage examples:

Keep the seedlings clear of weeds

verb

Remove unwanted plants from (an area of ground).

Usage examples:

I was weeding a flower bed

verb

Urinate.

noun

Activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.

Usage examples:

He was tired after a day's work

verb

Be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work.

Usage examples:

She has been working so hard

plural noun

All the extra things that may be offered with something

Usage examples:

This camera came with a carrying case, zoom lens, tripod – the works.

noun

A room or building in which goods are manufactured or repaired.

Usage examples:

Giant disused workshops and factory buildings would be flattened to make way for new homes and busi…

verb

Present a performance of (a dramatic work), using intensive group discussion and improvisation in order to explore aspects of the production prior to formal staging.

Usage examples:

The play was workshopped briefly at the shaw festival

noun

A space in a building equipped with tools and often machines for making or repairing things

Usage examples:

A teacher-training workshop

noun

A unit of linear measure equal to 3 feet (0.9144 metre).

Usage examples:

A full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth

verb

Store or transport (wood) in or to a timber yard.

Usage examples:

He is the last logger to be using a sled for yarding logs