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Plant vs Tiller - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between plant and tiller

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 tiller is a person who tills; a farmer or tiller can be (obsolete) a young tree or tiller can be (archery) the stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.

As verbs the difference between plant and tiller

is that plant is to place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow while tiller is to put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

plant

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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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
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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.

    • 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 room

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
  • To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
    • 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
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Chelsea 2 - 0 Blackburn Rovers , work=BBC 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.}}
  • To place in the ground.
  • * 2007 , Richard Laymon, Savage , page 118:
    • Sarah, she kissed each of her grandparents on the forehead. They were planted in a graveyard behind the church.
  • To furnish or supply with plants.
    • to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
  • To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It engenders choler, planteth anger.
  • To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
    • to plant a colony
  • * Francis Bacon
    • planting of countries like planting of woods
  • To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
    • to plant Christianity among the heathen
  • To set up; to install; to instate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • We will plant some other in the throne.

    Derived terms

    * faceplant, handplant * plant out

    Related terms

    * plantation

    See also

    * (wikipedia) 1000 English basic words ----

    tiller

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who tills; a farmer.
  • * 2000 , (Alasdair Gray), The Book of Prefaces , Bloomsbury 2002, page 63:
    • In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
  • A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
    • Synonyms
    * (machine) cultivator

    See also

    * motor plow

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) *.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A young tree.
    • (Evelyn)
  • A shoot of a plant which springs from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sapling; a sucker.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put forth new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archery) The stock; a beam on a crossbow carved to fit the arrow, or the point of balance in a longbow.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
    • You can shoot in a tiller .
  • (nautical) A bar of iron or wood connected with the rudderhead and leadline, usually forward, in which the rudder is moved as desired by the tiller (FM 55-501).
  • (nautical) The handle of the rudder which the helmsman holds to steer the boat, a piece of wood or metal extending forward from the rudder over or through the transom. Generally attached at the top of the rudder.
  • A handle; a stalk.
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A small drawer; a till.
    • (Dryden)
    Derived terms
    * tiller extension

    References

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