1. s. (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.
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.
2. s. (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 chloro
3. s. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. s. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5. s. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6. s. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!
7. s. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
8. s. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
9. s. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
10. s. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
11. s. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
12. s. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
13. s. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
14. s. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
15. s. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
16. v. To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
17. v. To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!
18. v. To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground
19. v. To place in the ground.
20. v. To furnish or supply with plants.
to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest
21. v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
22. v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
to plant a colony
23. v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.
3. s. (typography) A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey.
floor
1. s. Suelo
2. s. Piso, planta
3. s. Nivel mínimo
4. s. Fondo
5. s. Zona reservada a los titulares de escaños en un parlamento
6. s. Por extensión, palabra, derecho a hablar
7. Solar, entarimar
8. Derribar, tumbar
9. Anonadar
floor
1. s. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
The room has a wooden floor.
2. s. Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
3. s. The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
Many sunken ships rest on the ocean floor.
The floor of a cave served the refugees as a home.
The pit floor showed where a ring of post holes had been.
4. s. A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
5. s. The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.
6. s. A storey/story of a building.
For years we lived on the third floor.
7. s. In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
8. s. Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?
The mayor often gives a lobbyist the floor.
9. s. (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
10. s. (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
11. s. (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
12. s. (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
The floor of 4.5 is 4.
13. s. (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
14. s. (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
15. s. (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
16. s. A dance floor.
17. s. The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition
18. v. To cover or furnish with a floor.
floor a house with pine boards
19. v. To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.
20. v. (driving, slang) To accelerate rapidly.
21. v. To silence by a conclusive answer or retort.
©