All English words - page 4259

Meanings of Planoconvex:

adjective

(of a lens) with one surface plane and the opposite one convex.

Usage examples:

Radiation characteristics of a plano-convex lens are studied using maslov's method, stressing the e…

Meanings of Planogamete:

noun

In algae and fungi: a motile gamete or conjugating cell.

Meanings of Planograph:

noun

A planographic printing.

verb

To print from a plane surface.

Meanings of Planographic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting a printing process in which the printing surface is flat, as in lithography.

Usage examples:

The technique for producing a lithograph is called planographic because the printing surface is a f…

Meanings of Planometer:

noun

A flat plate, typically of cast iron, used in metalwork as a standard gauge for plane surfaces.

Usage examples:

The latter kind of planometers, although not near so large or costly as the former, has almost an e…

Meanings of Planometry:

noun

The measurement of the area of plane surfaces; = "planimetry".

Meanings of Planont:

noun

A motile spore, gamete, or zygote; especially the motile stage of certain microsporidian protozoans or phycomycetes.

Meanings of Planorbiform:

adjective

Having the form of a snail of the genus planorbis; of the shape of a rounded plane spiral.

Meanings of Planorbis:

noun

A genus of freshwater snails (pond snails) characterized by a rounded shell in the form of a plane spiral.

Meanings of Planorboid:

adjective

= planorbiform .

Meanings of Planosol:

noun

An intrazonal soil having a thin, strongly leached surface horizon overlying a compacted hardpan or claypan, and occurring on flat uplands with poor drainage.

Meanings of Planosols:

noun

An intrazonal soil having a thin, strongly leached surface horizon overlying a compacted hardpan or claypan, and occurring on flat uplands with poor drainage.

Meanings of Planospiral:

adjective

= planispiral .

Meanings of Planospore:

noun

A motile spore, a zoospore.

Meanings of Plans:

noun

A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.

Usage examples:

The un peace plan

verb

Decide on and make arrangements for in advance.

Usage examples:

They were planning a trip to egypt

phrase

Drawings from which something is made or built

Usage examples:

Draw up plans the architect showed us the house plans that she had drawn up., plans for i'll send a…

Meanings of Plansheer:

noun

The outermost plank or series of planks covering the gunwale or the heads of the frames in a wooden ship.

Meanings of Plant:

noun

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

Usage examples:

Eventually, it melts to supply water and nutrients to plants and aquatic organisms.

verb

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow.

Usage examples:

We planted a lot of fruit trees

Meanings of Plant-life:

noun

A living thing that grows in earth, in water, or on other plants, usually has a stem, leaves, roots, and flowers, and ...

Meanings of Plant-out:

phrasal verb

To put a plant into the ground outside to continue growing

Usage examples:

Plant out the geraniums in early june.

Meanings of Plantad:

adverb

Towards the sole of the foot.

Meanings of Plantage:

noun

Originally: †the cultivation of plants; planting (obsolete). in later use: a place in which plants are cultivated, a plantation.

Meanings of Plantagenet:

adjective

Relating to the english royal dynasty which held the throne from the accession of henry ii in 1154 until the death of richard iii in 1485.

Usage examples:

Both these peers - the first of royal plantagenet lineage, the second very much a new man, a russel…

noun

A member of the plantagenet dynasty.

Usage examples:

Thus began the rivalry between the capetians and the plantagenets as well as the birth of the gothi…

Meanings of Plantaginaceous:

adjective

Of or relating to the plant family plantaginaceae, which includes the plantains.

Meanings of Plantain:

noun

A low-growing plant that typically has a rosette of leaves and a slender green flower spike, widely growing as a weed in lawns.

Usage examples:

What girl child has not, during the warm summer months of her youth, played in the out of doors mak…

Meanings of Plantains:

noun

A low-growing plant that typically has a rosette of leaves and a slender green flower spike, widely growing as a weed in lawns.

Usage examples:

What girl child has not, during the warm summer months of her youth, played in the out of doors mak…