1. n. Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
2. n. Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
3. n. A lawn.
4. n. (slang) Marijuana.
5. n. (Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
6. n. (physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
7. n. (slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
8. n. The season of fresh grass; spring.
9. n. (obsolete, figurative) That which is transitory.
10. n. (folk etymology) Asparagus.
11. v. To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
12. v. (transitive, or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
13. v. To cover with grass or with turf.
14. v. To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
1. n. (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. n. (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. n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
5. n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
6. n. 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. n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
8. n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
9. n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
10. n. Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
11. n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
12. n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
13. n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
14. n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
15. n. (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.
to plant Christianity among the heathen
24. v. To set up; to install; to instate.
wort
wort
1. n. (archaic) A plant; herb; vegetable.
2. n. Any of various plants or herbs. The word is usually used in combination to refer to specific plants, e.g. St. John’s wort; however, it may be used on its own as a generic term.
3. n. (brewing) Liquid extract from the ground malt and grain soaked in hot water, the mash, as one of the steps in making beer.
LOL
LOL
1. interj. (Internet slang) Laughing (or laugh) out loud.
2. interj. (Internet slang) Lots of laughs. (occasionally used)
3. interj. (Internet slang) Indicates light-heartedness or amusement, or that the accompanying statement is not intended as serious.
4. v. (internet slang) To laugh out loud.
5. n. (US, British commonwealth Ireland) Loyal Orange Lodge, a prefix given to all branches of the Loyal Orange Order. For example, LOL 1 is Portadown branch.
6. n. (informal, sometimes pejorative) Little old lady.
7. interj. (Internet slang) alternative form of LOL
8. n. alternative case form of LOL
9. v. (Internet slang) alternative form of LOL
10. interj. (archaic) Used in song as a nonsense syllable.