(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.
Waterworks
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This information has been collected in Finland retrospectively from waterworks, and will be correlated with the Finnish Cancer Registry data.
(2) Removal of humus by anionic exchange is a potential process for small waterworks in Norway.
(3) For the sake of the natural character of water catchment and in order not to degrade the waterworks to mere "water-manufacturers", we are all requested to handle thoroughly and cautiously water-endangering substances.
(4) Finished drinking water samples were collected from 384 waterworks that supply 70.9% of the Norwegian population.
(5) We report a case, a 28-year-old male waterworks technician, who developed dyspnea, cough, chest pain, metallic taste and ache in the whole body three hours after heating approximately 30 ml of liquid mercury during an experiment.
(6) In the light of the current very low incidence of indigenous typhoid fever, it is suggested that the examination of relevant waterworks staff and prospective employees for carriage of the agents of potentially waterborne disease should be done selectively by appropriate laboratory tests only when indications for them are revealed by medical assessment.
(7) The Author has collaborate with the Anthos advised some sagacity and modifications, especially at the waterworks, for render "surgical" a regular odontological compact instrument.
(8) Travel tip If you’re with the kids – or just a fan of urban planning – the Waterworks Museum at Friedrichshagen has a fascinating exhibition set in a 19th-century machine hall.
(9) A second experiment was performed at a municipal waterworks in order to assess the role of water treatment processes in the production of mutagenic compounds.
(10) The waterworks founded during the second half of the last century obtained the raw water exclusively from the Ruhr-valley; they were responsible for the water supply of the industrial area situated on the right of the river Rhine.
(11) Additionally, we examined 8 samples from the waterworks of Mannheim and 4 samples from a lake in the Mannheim area.
(12) Her husband and 19-year-old son both belong to a union and have worked on underground waterworks, but both were laid off after Hurricane Sandy struck New York.
(13) Although it does not appear justified to close down waterworks effective 1 October 1989 if these limit values are exceeded, it must be carefully considered up to which concentration--depending on the individual substance--special permissions can be granted for a limited period of time.
(14) Water samples were collected from 384 waterworks that supply 70.9% of the Norwegian population.
(15) Two out of 8 untreated water samples of the waterworks of Mannheim showed mutagenic effects in the undiluted water following metabolic activation.
(16) Naturally grown cell material of Crenothrix polyspora from the well of a waterworks was studied by means of phase-contrast and Nomarski interference microscopy as well as by transmission electron microscopy.
(17) The waterworks pre-purified the water from the Ruhr before infiltration into the underground in order to increase the quantity and quality of the recharged water.
(18) This development was caused by a sudden increase of the Aeromonas density in the drinking water of the municipal Dune Waterworks of The Hague and reports about the possible health significance of these organisms in drinking water.
(19) Over the past five years, Greece has faltered on promises to sell vital parts of its infrastructure – ports, airports, marinas and waterworks – in exchange for billions of euros in loans.
(20) The contribution reports on two contamination cases, i.e., a waterwork "Durlacher Wald" and an industrial plant "Oberrheingraben" which were remedied using biological and physico-chemical methods.