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Synonyms for plant
plænt, plɑntplant

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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. plant

    We set or set out slips, cuttings, young trees, etc., tho we may also be said to plant them; we plant corn, potatoes, etc., which we put in definite places, as in hills, with some care; we sow wheat or other small grains and seeds which are scattered in the process. Tho by modern agricultural machinery the smaller grains are almost as precisely planted as corn, the old word for broadcast scattering is retained. Land is seeded or seeded down to grass.

    Synonyms:
    seed, seed down, set, set out, sow

    Antonyms:
    eradicate, extirpate, root up, uproot, weed out

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. plant

    Synonyms:
    set, insert, settle, establish, introduce, stock, fix, place

    Antonyms:
    remove, extract, eradicate, extirpate, disestablish, transport, denude, transplant, displace

Princeton's WordNet3.8 / 5 votes

  1. plant, works, industrial plantnoun

    buildings for carrying on industrial labor

    "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles"

    Synonyms:
    whole kit and boodle, whole kit and caboodle, whole shebang, flora, works, industrial plant, whole caboodle, plant life, whole works, workings, full treatment, deeds, whole kit, kit and caboodle, kit and boodle

  2. plant, flora, plant lifenoun

    (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

    Synonyms:
    plant life, vegetation, industrial plant, botany, flora, works

  3. plantnoun

    an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

    Synonyms:
    plant life, industrial plant, flora, works

  4. plantverb

    something planted secretly for discovery by another

    "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant"

    Synonyms:
    plant life, industrial plant, flora, works

  5. plant, setverb

    put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground

    "Let's plant flowers in the garden"

    Synonyms:
    lay out, go under, dress, place, prepare, institute, put, localize, coiffe, fix, establish, fructify, gear up, go down, implant, found, imbed, jell, position, arrange, define, specify, mark, lay, correct, countersink, determine, coiffure, do, engraft, sic, coif, ready, set up, congeal, embed, limit, constitute, set, typeset, adjust, rig, pose, localise

  6. implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plantverb

    fix or set securely or deeply

    "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"

    Synonyms:
    ingraft, set, implant, institute, engraft, found, constitute, imbed, establish, graft, embed

  7. establish, found, plant, constitute, instituteverb

    set up or lay the groundwork for

    "establish a new department"

    Synonyms:
    engraft, demonstrate, name, ground, implant, set up, install, be, set, base, found, institute, instal, launch, build, appoint, imbed, comprise, prove, represent, form, give, shew, lay down, embed, establish, make up, bring, nominate, make, show, constitute

  8. plantverb

    place into a river

    "plant fish"

    Synonyms:
    establish, set, implant, institute, engraft, found, constitute, imbed, embed

  9. plantverb

    place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive

    "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment"

    Synonyms:
    establish, set, implant, institute, engraft, found, constitute, imbed, embed

  10. plant, implantverb

    put firmly in the mind

    "Plant a thought in the students' minds"

    Synonyms:
    establish, set, implant, institute, engraft, found, constitute, imbed, embed

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. plantnoun

    Synonyms:
    vegetable

  2. plantverb

    Synonyms:
    fix, establish, settle, found

  3. plantverb

    Synonyms:
    sow, scatter seed, put in seed

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. plantnoun

    Synonyms:
    vegetable, herb

  2. plantnoun

    Synonyms:
    flora (plants of a region)

  3. plantverb

    Synonyms:
    sow, settle, establish

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How to use plant in a sentence?

  1. Director Richard Menezes:

    The new plant as well as the two upgrades will be operational at full capacity by October 2018, when Utico's total capacity will be 65 mgpd.

  2. Greek proverb:

    A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.

  3. Terry Jones:

    Knowledge from the past can protect us in the present. When an animal or plant goes extinct, it isn't coming back. But mutations can re-occur or revert and viruses can mutate or spill over from the animal reservoir so there will always be another zoonosis( disease caused by viruses that jumped from animal hosts into human hosts).

  4. Professor Echeverry:

    Hippos live in herds, they are quite aggressive. They are very territorial and are plant eaters in general.

  5. Doug Cifu:

    What we have at Virtu is a technology plant that is multi-asset class, multi-currency and very low latency and very efficient and very scaled, to the extent we can use that asset and leverage that asset into what I will call related and ancillary businesses ... I'm very open to it.


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