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- English Word Planning Definition of Plan
- English Word Plano- Definition Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave.
- English Word Plano- Definition See Plani-.
- English Word Plano-concave Definition Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens.
- English Word Plano-conical Definition Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other.
- English Word Plano-convex Definition Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.
- English Word Plano-horizontal Definition Having a level horizontal surface or position.
- English Word Plano-orbicular Definition Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.
- English Word Plano-subulate Definition Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.
- English Word Planoblast Definition Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.
- English Word Planometer Definition An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface.
- English Word Planometry Definition The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.
- English Word Planorbis Definition Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
- English Word Plant Definition A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
- English Word Plant Definition A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
- English Word Plant Definition The sole of the foot.
- English Word Plant Definition The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
- English Word Plant Definition A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
- English Word Plant Definition An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- English Word Plant Definition A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- English Word Plant Definition To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
- English Word Plant Definition To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
- English Word Plant Definition To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
- English Word Plant Definition To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- English Word Plant Definition To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
- English Word Plant Definition To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
- English Word Plant Definition To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.
- English Word Plant Definition To set up; to install; to instate.
- English Word Plant Definition To perform the act of planting.
- English Word Plant-cane Definition A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon.