different between planter vs plough

English

Etymology

plant +? -er

Noun

planter (plural planters)

1. One who plants something.
   • 2002, Jill Christman, Darkroom: A Family Exposure (page 100)

     She didn't use any magic truth serums, nor did she suggest hypnotherapy, but barring this, she personified the greatest enemy of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation — an evil planter of false memories.

2. A box or pot for plants, usually large and standing on the floor.
3. (historical) Any of the early English settlers, given the lands of the dispossessed Irish populace during the reign of Elizabeth I.
4. A machine used for planting seeds.
5. The owner of a plantation.

Translations

Anagrams

• pantler, replant

Cebuano

Etymology

Back-formation from planteran.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: plan?ter

Noun

planter

1. a frameup; a false incrimination of an innocent person

Danish

Noun

planter c

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present of plante

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch planter. Equivalent to planten +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?n.t?r/
• Hyphenation: plan?ter

Noun

planter m (plural planters)

1. A planter, one who plants (usually plants or perhaps fungi).
2. A farmer, a tiller; in particular the owner or operator of a plantation, a planter.
3. A founder of a colony, a settler, a coloniser.

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin plant?re, present active infinitive of plant?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??.te/

Verb

planter

1. (transitive) to plant
2. (transitive) to drive in (a nail, stake etc.)
3. (transitive) to pitch (a tent)
4. (transitive, informal) to flake, leave someone behind, by not showing up (for a meeting, date)
5. (transitive, intransitive, computing) to crash
6. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fall off
7. (reflexive, informal, se planter) to fail, to not succeed
8. (reflexive, informal, se planter, a vehicle and etc) to break down
9. (transitive, slang) to stab with a knife
   • 1981, Jean-Marc Ligny, Furia!, ?ISBN

     Il se dit qu'il ne ressortira plus jamais de cette cour des miracles, que dans dix minutes un petit nerveux va déboucher d'une venelle avec un couteau et le planter aussi sec.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• planter le décor
• se planter

Related terms

• plante
• plantation

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• parlent

Latin

Verb

planter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plant?

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French planteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pl??t??]

Noun

planter

1. a planter; one that plants something

   Synonym: agrikilter

Related terms

• plantasion
• plant
• plante

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

planter m or f

1. indefinite plural of plante

Verb

planter

1. present of plante

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• plantar

Noun

planter m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of plante

English

Alternative forms

• plow (American)

Etymology

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English pl?h (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, West Frisian ploech, North Frisian plog, Dutch ploeg, Low German Ploog, German Pflug, Danish plov, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

plough (plural ploughs)

1. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.

   Synonyms: sull, (dialectal) zowl

   Hyponyms: ard, light plough, scratch plough, carruca, heavy plough, mouldboard plough, turnplough

2. The use of a plough; tillage.
   • 1919, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report (volume 8, page 47)

     If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.

3. Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
4. Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.

   Synonym: carucate

   • c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn

     Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.

5. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
6. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
7. (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, hal?sana.

Usage notes

The spelling plow is usual in the United States, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)

1. (transitive) To use a plough on to prepare for planting.

2. (intransitive) To use a plough.

3. To move with force.
4. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

   Synonyms: chamfer, groove, rut
5. (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
6. (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
7. (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
8. (Britain, college slang, transitive) To fail (a student).

   Synonyms: flunk, pluck
9. (transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.

   Synonyms: get up in, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ploug, plouh, plogh, plog, ploh, ploch
• plugh, pleugh, plue, pleu (northern)

Etymology

From Old English pl?h, from Proto-West Germanic *pl?g.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plu?x/

Noun

plough (plural ploughs)

1. plow

Descendants

• English: plough
• Yola: pleough

References

• “pl?ugh, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.