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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
  • A large piece of machinery, such as used in earthmoving or road construction.
  • An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
  • 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.
  • Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
  • A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
  • 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.
  • ecology Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
  • snooker A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

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Verb:

  • transitive To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
  • transitive To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
  • transitive To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

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