Plant vs Floor - 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
The bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.
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Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
A storey/story of a building.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
(label) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
(label) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(label) A horizontal, flat ore body.
(label) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
(label) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
(label) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
To cover or furnish with a floor.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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, chapter=1 To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
* As soon as our driver saw an insurgent in a car holding a detonation device, he floored the pedal and was 2,000 feet away when that car bomb exploded. We escaped certain death in the nick of time!
To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
* Floored or crushed by him. — Coleridge
To amaze or greatly surprise.
(colloquial) To finish or make an end of.
* I've floored my little-go work — ed Hughes
As nouns the difference between plant and floor
is that 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 while floor is the bottom or lower part of any room; the supporting surface of a room.As verbs the difference between plant and floor
is that plant is to place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow while floor is to cover or furnish with a floor.plant
English
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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
citation, page= , passage=First Anelka curled a shot wide from just outside the box, then Lampard planted a header over the bar from Bosingwa's cross.}}
- 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 ----floor
English
Noun
(en noun)- A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor ; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor , where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
- (Raymond)
Synonyms
* (right to speak) possession (UK)Antonyms
* ceilingVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}