different between plant vs system

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

From Middle French sisteme, systeme (modern French système (“system”)), or directly from its etymon Late Latin syst?ma (“harmony; musical scale; set of celestial objects; set of troops; system”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma, “musical scale; organized body; whole made of several parts or members”), from ???- (sun-, prefix meaning ‘with, together’) + ?????? (híst?mi, “to stand”) (from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand (up)”)) + -?? (-ma, suffix forming neuter nouns denoting the result of, a particular instance of, or the object of an action). The English word is cognate with Dutch systema, German System, Italian sistema, Portuguese sistema, Spanish sistema.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?st?m/
• (General American) enPR: s?s?t?m, IPA^(key): /?s?st?m/
• Hyphenation: sys?tem

Noun

system (plural systems)

1. A collection of organized things; a whole composed of relationships among its members. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: arrangement, complex, composition, organization, set up, structure

   1. (derogatory) Preceded by the word the: the mainstream culture, controlled by the elites or government of a state, or a combination of them, seen as oppressive to the individual.
   2. (computing) A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
   3. (mathematics) A set of equations involving the same variables, which are to be solved simultaneously.
   4. (music) A set of staves linked by a brace that indicate instruments or sounds that are to be played simultaneously.
   5. (physiology) A set of body organs having a particular function.
   6. (psychiatry) A set of alters, or the multiple (“the individual with multiple personalities due to, for example, a dissociative personality disorder”) who contains them.
   7. (astronomy) A planetary system; a set of planets orbiting a star or star system
2. A method or way of organizing or planning.

Usage notes

In attributive use, especially relating to computer systems, the plural is more common than the singular; one normally speaks of a systems engineer and not a system engineer.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shisutemu)

Translations

See also

• network

References

Further reading

• system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• stymes

Danish

Etymology

From late Latin syst?ma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma, “organised whole, body”), from ??? (sún, “with, together”) + ?????? (híst?mi, “I stand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syste?m/, [sy?sd?e??m]

Noun

system n (singular definite systemet, plural indefinite systemer)

1. system

Declension

See also

• system on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

References

• “system” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From English system

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis.t?m/
• Homophone: système

Noun

system m (plural systems)

1. Word used in star system.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma)

Noun

system n (definite singular systemet, indefinite plural system or systemer, definite plural systema or systemene)

1. a system

Derived terms

References

• “system” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma)

Noun

system n (definite singular systemet, indefinite plural system, definite plural systema)

1. a system

Derived terms

References

• “system” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From French système, from Late Latin syst?ma, from Ancient Greek ??????? (súst?ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.st?m/

Noun

system m inan

1. system (collection of organized things; whole composed of relationships among its members)

   Synonym: uk?ad

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) systemowy

Related terms

• (noun) systematyczno??
• (adjective) systematyczny
• (adverbs) systematycznie, systemowo

Further reading

• system in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• system in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

system n

1. a system, a way or method of organizing items and knowledge
2. a computer system (primarily its hardware)
3. a system of restricted sales of alcohol, including state-owned monopoly shops

Declension

Derived terms

References

• system in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• mysets

Welsh

Alternative forms

• sustem

Etymology

From English system.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /?s??sd?m/, [?s??st?m]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?s?sd?m/, [?s?st?m]

Usage notes

Being a word borrowed from English derived from Greek, the y in system is pronounced /??, ?/ rather than expected /?/. To preserve consistency between pronunciation and spelling, some prefer to spell this word sustem. Nevertheless, system is the more common spelling of the two. See pyramid/puramid, symbol/sumbol, synthesis/sunthesis for similar examples.

Noun

system f (plural systemau, not mutable)

1. system

   Synonym: cyfundrefn

Derived terms

• systematig (“systematic”)

Further reading

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