Noun

That which affects one's welfare or happiness.

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The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.

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A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

* 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):

Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.

(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.

* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)

At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .

Noun

(s)

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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(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 chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll ''a'' and ''b , or any organism closely related to such an organism.

(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).

A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

* 2008 , Phil Yates, The Times , April 28 2008:

O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.

A large piece of machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.

(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

* Dryden

a plant of stubborn oak

(obsolete) The sole of the foot.

* Ben Jonson

* knotty legs and plants of clay

(dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.

* Charles Dickens

It wasn't a bad plant , that of mine, on Fikey.

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

(US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.