(n.) One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.
(n.) One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.
(n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, where his father was a rubber planter.
(2) As scholar Thavolia Glymph writes in Out of the House of Bondage , her study of women and slavery in America, the insinuation has long been that planter women "suffered under the weight of the same patriarchal authority to which slaves were subjected".
(3) Use bigger planters combining many plants together in a large volume of compost.
(4) Planters Peanuts Planters introduced the Mr Peanut trademark figure after it was submitted by a schoolboy in a company-sponsored contest in 1916.
(5) In the middle of one gallery is a giant garden planter, fashioned from a truck tire and cast in glowing orange resin.
(6) She revealed that she was descended from a prominent 17th-century Barbadian planter, though she knew very little of him beyond his name and the parish in which he had owned hundreds of acres and enslaved peoples.
(7) But there’s a lot you can do with paint, and planters and stones from old bridge projects.
(8) Women are in a difficult position as both planters and weeders of maize and as caretakers of the ill AIDS patients.
(9) WINNING TIP: Lela's Taverna, Kardamyli, Peloponnese Overlooking the old port in this pretty village, Lela's has a terraced dining area shaded by a vine-covered pergola, with planters tumbling bright red geraniums.
(10) During her time in South America, she travelled around the Dutch colony, sketching local animals and plants but also criticising the treatment of indigenous people and black slaves by Dutch planters.
(11) Margaret Beckett, former foreign secretary What we already knew: Tried to claim £600 for "the supply of plants for hanging baskets, tubs, pots, planters, pouches and garden", and another £711 for "labour and materials for painting of summer house, shed and pergola" on her Derbyshire constituency home while also living in a grace an favour home in London.
(12) Dear Planters Peanuts, At a time when the government has been rightly condemned for the number of millionaires and public schoolboys in the cabinet, I was frankly appalled to see the elitist way in which you market your product.
(13) In Study 2, first- through fifth-grade children were given the task of estimating the likelihood that a bug would fall on a pot containing a flower when presented displays of planters containing either 2, 3, 4, or 5 pots with flowers, and 6, 8, or 10 pots total.
(14) On neurological examination, Parkinsonism, bucco-lingo-masticatory dyskinesia and bilateral extensor planter reflex were present, but tetany was not observed anywhere.
(15) It has been a curse of coffee planters ever since it appeared in east Africa 150 years ago.
(16) "We want to change the community mindset so that mining isn't the only focus of income – there's agriculture, plantations, other jobs to do here," says Untung, 54, from an office so huge it encompasses four sofas, various planters and orchids, and a flatscreen TV.
(17) If you want something more unusual, try a specialist website such as Waterbuttsdirect.co.uk , Simplywaterbutts.co.uk or Greenfingers.com where you can choose from standalone and wall-mounted decorative butts that look like (or are) wooden barrels, terracotta pots, stone walls, metal planters – even Roman columns – in a wide variety of sizes, materials and prices.
(18) The food court looks attractive, fringed by herb-filled planters made from more reclaimed rollercoaster.
(19) Tour guides will wax lyrical about the gracious lifestyles led by the planter families who lived in them.
(20) In 6 patients reporting contact with primrose positive tests were obtained with flowers and leaves of this plant, four of five tobacco planters tested who had eczematous lesions of the hands, aave also positive results of the test with tobacco leaves, and in three children reporting contact with butter-cup changes were observed resembling dermatitis pratensis bullosa.
Pot
Definition:
(n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.
(n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
(n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
(n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
(n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
(n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
(n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.
(n.) A size of paper. See Pott.
(v. t.) To place or inclose in pots
(v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.
(v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
(v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
(v. t.) To pocket.
(v. i.) To tipple; to drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(2) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(3) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(4) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(5) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(6) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(7) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(8) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(9) [IAAF officials] are quite happy to sit in Monaco on a huge pot of money but when it comes to investing in the sport it’s not happening.
(10) Even if it were true that the rich are hard working, this wouldn't distinguish them from most people who lack the proverbial pot to micturate in.
(11) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(12) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
(13) If you do find they are all legs and nothing else, when you pot them on, drop them.
(14) Known as the melting pot of the south, Marseille is home to a large proportion – possibly up to a fifth – of France's total Roma population, itself estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000.
(15) If you are on holiday in the local area please come along and have a look, buy a garden bench or a potted plant.
(16) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
(17) In screening exercises the Pot IgM failed to bind a wide variety of peptides.
(18) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(19) Potted profile Born: 19 June 1945 Age: 66 Career: Campaigner for democracy and human rights High point: Release from house arrest in November 2010 and successive subsequent releases of Burmese political prisoners Low point: Separation from and eventual death of her husband from cancer in 1999 What she says: "It is not power that corrupts but fear.
(20) In this report, a new HLA-B locus antigen is described (tentatively called POT).