Plantation vs Modification - What's the difference?
plantation | modification |
Large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth. Often includes housing for the owner and workers.
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The importation of large numbers of workers and soldiers to displace the local population, such as in medieval Ireland and in the Caribbean.
the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified
an alteration or adjustment to something
* Jim's modification to the radio's tuning resulted in clearer sound.
a change to an organism as a result of its environment that is not transmissable to offspring
* Due to his sunbathing, Jim's body experienced modifications : he got a tan.
(linguistics) a change to a word when it is borrowed by another language
* The Chinese word "kòu tóu" had a modification made to become the English "kowtow" .
(linguistics) the change undergone by a word when used in a construction (for instance am'' => '' 'm'' in ''I'm )
As nouns the difference between plantation and modification
is that plantation is large farm; estate or area of land designated for agricultural growth often includes housing for the owner and workers while modification is the act or result of modifying or the condition of being modified.plantation
English
(wikipedia plantation)Noun
(en noun)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations , “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}