Plant vs Station - 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
(label) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
* 1646 , Sir (Thomas Browne), (Pseudodoxia Epidemica) , III.5:
(label) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
A stopping place.
# A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
# A ground transportation depot.
# A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
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, passage=He walked. To the corner of Hamilton Place and Picadilly, and there stayed for a while, for it is a romantic station by night. The vague and careless rain looked like threads of gossamer silver passing across the light of the arc-lamps.}}
# (label) A gas station, service station.
#* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
A place where workers are stationed.
# An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
# A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
# A military base.
# A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
# A very large sheep or cattle farm.
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#* 1993 , Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton, Dowker, L. O.'', entry in ''Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900 ,
#* 2003 , Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia ,
One of the Stations of the Cross.
The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
Standing; rank; position.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
A broadcasting entity.
(label) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
(label) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
(label) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
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To put in place to perform a task.
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To put in place to perform military duty.
As nouns the difference between plant and station
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 station is station.As a verb plant
is to place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.plant
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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.
Derived terms
* faceplant, handplant * plant outSee also
* (wikipedia) 1000 English basic words ----station
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Noun
(en noun)- "Meanwhile, lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by the back, you and the boy must go round the corner with a pair of good sticks and take your post at the laboratory door. We give you ten minutes, to get to your stations ."
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- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- There was movement at the station , for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,
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- Tiring of sheep, he took work on cattle stations', mustering cattle on vast unfenced holdings, and looking for work ‘n-gg-r-bossing’, or supervising Aboriginal ' station hands.
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- The romance of the gritty station owner in a crumpled Akubra, his kids educated from the remote homestead by the School of the Air, while triple-trailer road trains drag tornadoes of dust across the plains, creates a stirring idea of the modern-day pioneer battling against the elemental Outback.
- The greater part have kept, I see, / Their station .
- they in France of the best rank and station
- By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following.
Synonyms
* (broadcasting entity) (that broadcasts television) channel * (ground transport depot) sta (abbreviation) * (military base) base, military base * (large sheep or cattle farm) farm, ranchDerived terms
* base station * battle station * broadcast station, broadcast-station * bus station * cattle station * coach station * docking station * filling station * fire station * fuel station * fueling station, fuelling station * gas station * guard station * hill station * hydrogen station * listening station * metro station * mobile station, mobile-station * motor station * outstation * petrol filling station * petrol station * PlayStation, Playstation * police station * polling station * power station * pull station * radar station * radio station, radio-station * railroad station * railway station * relay station * service station * sheep station * space station, spacestation, space-station * substation * subway station * state * stationary * station bill * station break * station hand * stationmaster * station sedan * Stations of the Cross * station throat * station wagon, station-wagon * stationward * substation * subway station * television station, television-station, TV station * total station * train station * Tube station * underground station * urination station * voting station * way station, waystation * weigh station * work station, workstationReferences
* (Newfoundland station)Verb
(en-verb) (transitive)- The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
- The Costa Rican's lofted corner exposed Arsenal's own problems with marking, and Berbatov, stationed right in the middle of goal, only needed to take a gentle amble back to find the space to glance past Vito Mannone
- They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.