different between plant vs platt

English

Etymology

From Middle English plante, from Old English plante (“young tree or shrub, herb newly planted”), from Latin planta (“sprout, shoot, cutting”). Broader sense of "any vegetable life, vegetation generally" is from Old French plante. Doublet of clan, borrowed through Celtic languages.

The verb is from Middle English planten, from Old English plantian (“to plant”), from Latin plant?re, later influenced by Old French planter. Compare also Dutch planten (“to plant”), German pflanzen (“to plant”), Swedish plantera (“to plant”), Icelandic planta (“to plant”).

Pronunciation

• (General New Zealand, Received Pronunciation) enPR: plänt, IPA^(key): /pl??nt/, [p?l???nt]
• (General Australian, US, Canada, Northern England) enPR: pl?nt, IPA^(key): /plænt/, [p?l?ænt]
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): [p?l?e?nt]
• Hyphenation: plant
• Rhymes: -??nt, -ænt
• Rhymes: -ænt

Noun

plant (plural plants)

1. (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.

2. (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 chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
3. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
4. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
6. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
7. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.

8. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
9. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
10. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
    • 2008, Phil Yates, The Times, April 28 2008:

      O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.

11. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
12. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
13. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
14. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
15. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
16. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

Usage notes

The scientific definition of what organisms should be considered plants changed dramatically during the 20th century. Bacteria, algae, and fungi are no longer considered plants by those who study them. Many textbooks do not reflect the most current thinking on classification.

Hypernyms

• (biology): Archaeplastida

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• plant pot
• plant room

Translations

See plant/translations § Noun.

Verb

plant (third-person singular simple present plants, present participle planting, simple past and past participle planted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
2. (transitive) 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!

3. (transitive) 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
4. To place in the ground.
5. To furnish or supply with plants.

   to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

6. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
7. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.

   to plant a colony

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Plantations

     planting of countries like planting of woods

8. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

   to plant Christianity among the heathen

9. To set up; to install; to instate.

Derived terms

• faceplant, handplant
• plant out

Related terms

• plantation

Translations

See plant/translations § Verb.

See also

• plant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Verb

plant

1. imperative of plante

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch plante, from Latin planta. Doublet of clan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?nt/
• Hyphenation: plant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

plant f (plural planten, diminutive plantje n)

1. plant, any member of the kingdom Plantae
2. (potentially offensive) cabbage, vegetable (person with severe brain damage)

Hyponyms

• boom
• gewas
• gras
• heester
• struik

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?nt/
• Hyphenation: plant

Verb

plant

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of planten
2. imperative of planten

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Belgium) /pl?nt/, (Netherlands) /pl?nt/
• Hyphenation: plant

Verb

plant

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of plannen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of plannen

References

French

Etymology

Deverbal of planter. Doublet of plan (“plan, map”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Homophones: plan, plans, plants

Noun

plant m (plural plants)

1. seedling
2. young plant or plantation

Further reading

• “plant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

plant

1. inflection of planen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French plante (“plant”).

Noun

plant

1. plant (organism)

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French plante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pl??t]

Noun

plant

1. a plant

Verb

plant

1. Medial form of plante; to plant.

Middle English

Noun

plant

1. Alternative form of planete (“planet”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

plant

1. imperative of plante

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?nt/

Verb

plant

1. imperative of planta

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??nt/

Adjective

plant

1. neuter singular of plan

Old Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin planta.

Noun

plant pl

1. children

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Descendants

• Old Irish: cland
  • Irish: clann
  • Manx: cloan
  • Scottish Gaelic: clann
• Welsh: plant

Swedish

Adjective

plant

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of plan.

Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh plant, from Latin planta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plant/

Noun

plant m (singulative plentyn)

1. children, young people
2. children (of parents), offspring (sometimes of animals), progeny, issue; descendants
   • 1620, Revised version of William Morgan’s translation of the Bible, Joel 1:3:

3. followers, disciples, servants
4. people regarded as product of a particular place, time, event, circumstances, etc.

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “plant”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin planta. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

plant c (plural planten, diminutive plantsje)

1. plant

Further reading

• “plant (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology 1

From Early Modern English platte, a variation (probably dialectal) of plot (“plot of land”); see plat and plot for more.

Noun

platt (plural platts)

1. Obsolete spelling of plat or plot (scheme, plan, design, map).
   • 1794 July 30, minutes of the Executive council of Georgia, published in Minutes of the Executive council, from January 14, 1778, to January 6, 1785 (1908), page 684:

     3rdly That it also be recommended to all persons concerned to have their platts passed through the Surveyor Generals Office, and, in all respects, ready for the grant, in case they shall be entitled to the same, by the said 10th of September.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:platt.

Etymology 2

From Middle English platten, whence also plait; see plat.

Noun

platt (plural platts)

1. Obsolete spelling of plat (material made by interweaving, especially material made by interweaving straw, used to make hats).

   straw platt

   • c. 1750, a record, quoted in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1931):

     The versatility of his craftsmanship is likewise evidenced by the inventory which included "8½ Doz. Walking Sticks & Rodds" and "3½ Doz. Straw Hatts, some platt &c." His name appears in several account books of early Philadelphians, in 1751, […]

German

Etymology

From northern Middle High German plat, blat and Middle Low German plat, from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus, probably from Ancient Greek ?????? (platús). Compare Dutch plat, French plat, Italian piatto, obsolete English plat. Also related to English flat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat/
• Rhymes: -at

Adjective

platt (comparative platter, superlative am plattesten)

1. flat
2. (of a building or structure; by extension also of immaterial things) completely destroyed, razed to the ground
3. bromidic, banal
4. (colloquial) very tired, exhausted
5. (colloquial) astonished, dumbstruck

Declension

Synonyms

• flach

Related terms

• Platt
• Plattfuß
• Platter
• Plattbauchspinne

Further reading

• “platt” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle Low German plat, a borrowing from Old French plat, from Vulgar Latin *plattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plat/

Adjective

platt

1. flat

2. flattened

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle Low German plat, a borrowing from Old French plat (whence French plat), from Vulgar Latin *plattus. Cognate with German platt, Dutch plat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

platt (masculine platten, neuter platt, comparative méi platt, superlative am plattsten)

1. flat

Declension

Maltese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

platt m (plural platti)

1. plate (dish)

Related terms

• plattin

Swedish

Etymology

From German platt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plat?/

Adjective

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

1. flat

Declension

Related terms

• platta
• plattång
• plattfisk
• plattform
• plattfot
• plattpannkaka
• plattysk

See also

• flat
• platå

Adverb

platt (comparative plattare, superlative plattast)

1. entirely, absolutely, at all

   det är platt intet

   that is absolutely nothing, that is nothing at all

Noun

platt c

1. a flat piece of ground

Declension

References

• platt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)