{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "plænt" ], "imgurl": [ "/var/www/html/blab/dic/img/plant.jpg" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/plant.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/plant.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/plant.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/plant.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/plant.wav" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of \"any vegetable life, vegetation generally\" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan, borrowed through Celtic languages.\nThe verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plantāre, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(botany) 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.\n2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 217:In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.\nThe garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border." }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall." }, { "mean": "(proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi." }, { "mean": "A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility." }, { "mean": "An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.\nThat gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!" }, { "mean": "Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation)." }, { "mean": "A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc." }, { "mean": "(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.\n2008, Phil Yates, The Times, April 28 2008:\nO’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds." }, { "mean": "(uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.\n1694, John Dryden, transl., “The Third Book of Virgil's Georgicks”, in The Annual Miscellany, for the Year 1694, second edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1708, page 185:Take, Shepherd, take a Plant of ſtubborn Oak; / And labour him with many a ſturdy ſtroke: / Or with hard Stones, demoliſh from afar / His haughty Creſt, the feat of all the War." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) The sole of the foot.\n1611, Ben Jonson, “Oberon, the Faery Prince”, in The Works of Ben Jonson, volume V, London: D. Midwinter et al., published 1756, page 384:Knotty legs, and plants of clay, / Seek for eaſe, or love delay." }, { "mean": "(dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.\n1850 March 30, Charles Dickens, “A Detective Police Party”, in Household Words, volume 1, page 413:It wasn’t a bad plant that of mine, on Fikey, the man accused of forging the Sou’ Westeru Railway debentures—it was only t’ other day—because the reason why? I’ll tell you." }, { "mean": "An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth." }, { "mean": "(US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting." }, { "mean": "(control theory) The combination of process and actuator." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.\nThat gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!\n1999, Terry Prone, The Skywriter (page 182)\nNot only that, I thought, but cynics would now theorise that the interview piece was a PR exercise, a planted story designed as damage-limitation in the event that some probing journalist revealed all about the love nest." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.\nPlant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.\nto plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground\n2011 January 15, Sam Sheringham, “Chelsea 2 - 0 Blackburn Rovers”, in BBC‎:First Anelka curled a shot wide from just outside the box, then Lampard planted a header over the bar from Bosingwa's cross." }, { "mean": "To place in the ground.\n1780, William Cowper, “Light Shining out of Darkneſs”, in Twenty-ſix Letters on Religious Subjects To which are added Hymns ‎, fourth edition, page 252:God moves in a myſterious way, / His wonders to perform; / He plants his footſteps in the ſea, / And rides upon the ſtorm.\n2007, Richard Laymon, Savage, page 118:Sarah, she kissed each of her grandparents on the forehead. They were planted in a graveyard behind the church." }, { "mean": "To furnish or supply with plants.\nto plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest" }, { "mean": "To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.\nc. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :It engenders choler, planteth anger." }, { "mean": "To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.\nto plant a colony\n1625, Francis , “Of Plantations”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:planting of countries like planting of woods" }, { "mean": "To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.\nto plant Christianity among the heathen" }, { "mean": "To set up; to install; to instate.\nc. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :We will plant some other in the throne." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "plant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "plant at OneLook Dictionary Search\nplant in Britannica Dictionary\nplant in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary\nplant in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary\nplant in Ozdic collocation dictionary\nplant in WordReference English Collocations" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }