Plant vs Attach - What's the difference?
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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
(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2
* Miss Yonge
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
* Paley
* Macaulay
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, title= To adhere; to be attached.
* Brougham
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to .
* Jane Austen
* Cowper
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .
* Bayard Taylor
(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
Plant is a related term of attach.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between plant and attach
is that plant is (obsolete) the sole of the foot while attach is (obsolete) to take, seize, or lay hold of.In lang=en terms the difference between plant and attach
is that plant is to place or set something firmly or with conviction while attach is to adhere; to be attached.As verbs the difference between plant and attach
is that plant is to place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow while attach is (obsolete|legal) to arrest, seize.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.plant
English
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(s)Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, page=217, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants , the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
- 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.
Derived terms
* faceplant, handplant * plant outSee also
* (wikipedia) 1000 English basic words ----attach
English
Verb
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.
- a huge stone to which the cable was attached
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- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- Dower will attach .
- (Cooley)
- attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- God by various ties attaches man to man.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- To this treasure a curse is attached .
- (Shakespeare)