Transplant vs Planting - What's the difference?
transplant | planting |
To uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place.
To remove (something) and establish its residence in another place; to resettle or relocate.
(medicine) To transfer (tissue or an organ) from one body to another, or from one part of a body to another.
An act of uprooting and moving (something).
Anything that is transplanted.
(medicine) An operation in which tissue or an organ is transplanted.
(medicine) A transplanted organ or tissue.
(US) Someone who is not native to their area of residence.
* 2012 , Lauren Collins, The New Yorker , 29 Oct 2012:
As verbs the difference between transplant and planting
is that transplant is to uproot (a growing plant), and plant it in another place while planting is .As nouns the difference between transplant and planting
is that transplant is an act of uprooting and moving (something) while planting is a plant (or clipping) that has been freshly planted.transplant
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(transplanting) (en verb)Noun
(en noun)- The Seigneur summoned the island's doctor, a young transplant from London named Peter Counsell, who determined that Mrs. Beaumont had suffered a stroke.