What's the difference between plant and tiller?

Plant


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
  • (n.) The sole of the foot.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
  • (n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
  • (n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
  • (n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.
  • (n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
  • (n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.
  • (n.) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  • (n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
  • (n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To set up; to install; to instate.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of planting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) A phytochemical investigation of an ethanolic extract of the whole plant of Echites hirsuta (Apocynaceae) resulted in the isolation and identification of the flavonoids naringenin, aromadendrin (dihydrokaempferol), and kaempferol; the coumarin fraxetin; the triterpene ursolic acid; and the sterol glycoside sitosteryl glucoside.
  • (3) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
  • (4) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
  • (5) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (6) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
  • (7) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (8) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
  • (9) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
  • (10) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (11) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.
  • (12) The effects of lowering the temperature from 25 degrees C to 2-8 degrees C on carbohydrate metabolism by plant cells are considered.
  • (13) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
  • (14) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (15) Results in this preliminary study demonstrate the need to evaluate the hazard of microbial aerosols generated by sewage treatment plants similar to the one studied.
  • (16) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
  • (17) Subsequently the plant protein was partially purified from leaf extract.
  • (18) Ecological risk assessments are used by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and other governmental agencies to assist in determining the probability and magnitude of deleterious effects of hazardous chemicals on plants and animals.
  • (19) A model is proposed for the study of plant breeding where the self-fertilization rate is of importance.
  • (20) The behavior and effects of atmospheric emissions in soils and plants are discussed.

Tiller


Definition:

  • (v. t.) One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
  • (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.
  • (n.) A sprout or young tree that springs from a root or stump.
  • (n.) A young timber tree.
  • (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering.
  • (n.) A lever of wood or metal fitted to the rudder head and used for turning side to side in steering. In small boats hand power is used; in large vessels, the tiller is moved by means of mechanical appliances. See Illust. of Rudder. Cf. 2d Helm, 1.
  • (n.) The stalk, or handle, of a crossbow; also, sometimes, the bow itself.
  • (n.) The handle of anything.
  • (n.) A small drawer; a till.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is what we imagined: the becalmed beauty of the Whitsunday Passage, that spectacular collection of islands protectively nestled inside the Great Barrier Reef, safe from prevailing winds; bright blue languid days gliding over turquoise waters, taking turns at the tiller in our togs; finding our own private cove as the sun goes down; diving into warm pristine waters; the tinkling of intimate laughter; the fizz of champagne and the sizzle of prawns on the barbie.
  • (2) But he will not be attending conference every day, and will have his hands firmly off the tiller as far as editorial matters are concerned.
  • (3) The effects of fescue endophyte content (low, 16 or high, 44% of tillers examined) and of N fertilization rate (low, 134 kg N.ha-1.yr-1 or high, 336 kg N.ha-1.yr-1) upon serum prolactin (PRL) in Angus steers were examined.
  • (4) In the dental hospital Münster 25 adhesive bridges have been incorporated for the last two years by the Silicoater method, which has been developed by Kulzer with the assistance of Musil and Tiller.
  • (5) This allows a very Blakean moment: he discovered a photograph of the Tiller Girls doing a horse routine with hooves on their hands.
  • (6) Those concerns were heightened last year when the deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, said he and Johnson "have our hands on the tiller" of the Met and had taken control of the force away from the home office.
  • (7) The cohort of viscose rayon workers previously described by Tiller et al has been reconstructed and followed up to the end of 1982.
  • (8) To correct his trajectory now, in the year before a general election, he will need to grab hold of that tiller and yank it so hard to the right he will send flying the sunbathers on the deck of his dangerously left-leaning ship.
  • (9) Dipper samples were taken from rice fields at six phases of maturity (fallow, ploughed, nursery, newly transplanted, after tillering, mature).
  • (10) That, I believe, is a far more positive and practical Scottish contribution to progressive policy than sending a tribute of Labour MPs to Westminster to have the occasional turn at the Westminster tiller – particularly in the circumstances ofas the opposition's policy increasingly converging with that of the coalition on the key issues of the economy and public spending.
  • (11) Talking about the first attempt on Tiller’s life, before Roeder, he laughingly refers to perpetrator Shelley Shannon as a terrible shot, because she shot him in both arms, when presumably aiming for his chest.
  • (12) Usually thanks to my wife: her role is often to lash me to the tiller and keep me there long enough to get through the bad patches.
  • (13) The squad of players available to Hughton clearly had the talent to make an immediate return but the Championship needs a steady hand at the tiller.
  • (14) And maybe we should borrow a tiller at this point or buy one?
  • (15) Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Identify our own weak spots: While it is true that many external factors have made delivering humanitarian aid more difficult, we also have a responsibility to look more closely at ourselves.
  • (16) Tillers of C. dactylon and E. indica from the three sites were subjected to a series concentrations of Pb(NO3)2.
  • (17) They tried everything they could to put George Tiller out of business,” Curtis says.
  • (18) Panel Sandrine Tiller, programmes adviser on humanitarian issues, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) London, UK, @MSF_UK @sandrinetiller Sandrine’s expertise is in the politicisation of aid and the current state of the aid system.
  • (19) Here’s a press baron who doesn’t interfere; who maintains a careful distance; who doesn’t want tea in Downing Street; who goes outside the UK and outside the media when he has to make crucial appointments: a steadying hand on a tiller far away.
  • (20) Tiller’s Wichita clinic, one of the few in the country to perform late-term abortions, was for years one of the most prominent battlegrounds over abortion.