Dish vs Plant - What's the difference?
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A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
* Bible, Judges v. 25
The contents of such a vessel.
A specific type of prepared food.
* Shakespeare
(in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
a type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl, as in satellite dish'', ''radar dish
(slang) A sexually attractive person.
The state of being concave, like a dish, or the degree of such concavity.
A hollow place, as in a field.
(mining) A trough in which ore is measured.
(mining) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
(informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
(slang, archaic, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
(Webster 1913)
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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, title= (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:
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
(obsolete) The sole of the foot.
* Ben Jonson
* knotty legs and plants of clay
(dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
* Charles Dickens
An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
(US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
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To place in the ground.
* 2007 , Richard Laymon, Savage , page 118:
To furnish or supply with plants.
To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
* Shakespeare
To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
* Francis Bacon
To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To set up; to install; to instate.
* Shakespeare
As an abbreviation dish
is .As a noun plant is
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.As a verb plant is
to place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.dish
English
(wikipedia dish)Noun
(es)- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish .
- a dish of stew
- a vegetable dish
- this dish is filling and easily made
- a dish fit for the gods
- It's your turn to wash the dishes .
- the dish of a wheel
- (Ogilvie)
Synonyms
* (vessel) plate * (contents) dishful, plate, plateful * (sexually attractive person) babe, foxDerived terms
* chafing dish * covered-dish * deep-dish * dish aerial * dish antenna * dish out * dish pig * dish the dirt * dish towel * dish up * dishcloth * dished * dishy * do the dishes * gratin dish * Petri dish * satellite dish * serving dish * side dishSee also
* plateVerb
(es)- The restaurant dished up a delicious Italian brunch .
- to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
Derived terms
* *Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic wordsplant
English
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- O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.
- a plant of stubborn oak
- It wasn't a bad plant , that of mine, on Fikey.
Usage notes
The scientific definition of what organisms should be considered plants changed dramatically during the 20th century. Bacteria, algae, and fungi are no longer considered plants by those who study them. Many textbooks do not reflect the most current thinking on classification.Derived terms
* houseplant * planter * plantlet * plantly * plant-pot * pot-plant * power plant * plant roomVerb
(en verb)- That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
- 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
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- Sarah, she kissed each of her grandparents on the forehead. They were planted in a graveyard behind the church.
- to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
- It engenders choler, planteth anger.
- to plant a colony
- planting of countries like planting of woods
- to plant Christianity among the heathen
- We will plant some other in the throne.
