Plant vs Zombie - 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
A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
(voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
(fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
(figuratively) An apathetic person.
(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
(computing) A process or task which has terminated but was not removed from the list of processes, typically because it has child processes that have not yet terminated.
(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
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(Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.The Canadian Encyclopedia , 2nd edition, Hurtig Publishers, Edmonton Canada, 1988. See "National Resources Mobilization Act," p. 1433.
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(philosophy) A hypothetical person who lacks self awareness.
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As nouns the difference between plant and zombie
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 zombie is zombie.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 ----zombie
English
(wikipedia zombie)Noun
(zombies)- I shot a zombie'''. He was a '''zombie , Kenneth. The pilot was bitten before he picked us up!
- After working for 18 hours on the computer, I was a zombie .
EE Times , "Beware 'zombie' clauses," 2 Aug., 2004
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- The maitre d’ introduced us and I had a zombie' with him. Those ' zombies are wicked.
- I watched Mario and drank zombies out of a thermos.
Time for Decision," Time (US edition), 6 Nov.,
- Had the time come to order Canada's home defense draftees—some 70,000 zombies idling at home—to battle overseas?
