park vs plant

park

noun
  • A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown. 

  • An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores. 

  • A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. 

  • An inventory of matériel. 

  • An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch. 

  • An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant. 

  • A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region. 

  • A space in which to leave a car; a parking space. 

  • A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation. 

  • An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose. 

verb
  • To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time. 

  • To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park. 

  • To enclose in a park, or as in a park. 

  • To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. 

  • To defer (a matter) until a later date. 

  • To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking) 

  • To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin. 

  • To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose. 

  • To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities. 

  • To bring together in a park, or compact body. 

plant

noun
  • An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. 

  • Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction. 

  • A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set. 

  • The combination of process and actuator. 

  • A young oyster suitable for transplanting. 

  • A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility. 

  • Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall. 

  • A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc. 

  • Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi. 

  • Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation). 

  • An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person. 

  • 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 chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of. 

  • To set up; to install; to instate. 

  • To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit. 

  • To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish. 

  • To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. 

  • To furnish or supply with plants. 

  • To place or set something firmly or with conviction. 

  • To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow. 

  • To place in the ground. 

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