Word Finder - planting

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

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

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That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!

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To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

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Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.

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To place in the ground.

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To furnish or supply with plants.

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to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

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

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

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to plant a colony

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To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.

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to plant Christianity among the heathen

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To set up; to install; to instate.

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A plant (or clipping) that has been freshly planted.

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Take one of the plantings over as a house-warming gift.

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The act of setting a plant in the ground for growth.

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A plantation.

Destiny helped her with planting the green bean seeds.

She'd been planting hints for days that Xander couldn't be trusted.

Bedding up land previous to planting is almost universal.

It was a singular experience that long acquaintance which I cultivated with beans, what with planting, and hoeing, and harvesting, and threshing, and picking over and selling them--the last was the hardest of all--I might add eating, for I did taste.

First look out for worms, and supply vacancies by planting anew.

I almost died a million times over, and if I didn't know how to enable the shields on the escape pod, I would have burned up in the atmosphere, and if that didn't kill me, then hitting the planet-- He held up a hand, planting it across her mouth when she refused to stop.

Although Borlaug and company encountered many obstacles, they pressed on, planting seed at night illuminated by flashes of artillery fire.

While you are planting the seed, he cries--"Drop it, drop it--cover it up, cover it up--pull it up, pull it up, pull it up."

There is more to being a father than planting the seed.

He jumped on her again, planting his paws on her shoulders.

Planting kisses on the corner of his mouth, she whispered.

As April slipped into May and the last threat of frost passed, she began planting them in the garden.

He bent his head, his warm lips planting gentle kisses along her neck and shoulder.

Soon everyone was zapping seeds and planting them and, lo and behold, it actually worked!

In any case, it seems better to me than irradiating corn, planting it, and hoping to hit a jackpot.

Dark splotches hindered her vision and she paused, planting a hand firmly on the counter for support.

We're trying to figure out what Darkyn is doing planting a shape-shifter demon on the mortal realm, Rhyn said, referring to the demon lord who wanted both their heads on pikes.

Deidre retreated, but he took one arm before planting a hand on her head.

Toby began to panic and pull, and the jaguar lowered itself farther to the ground, planting its back legs and jerking the boy towards the forest.

His lips left hers, softly planting warm kisses on her neck.

He sat next to Sarah, planting a kiss on her forehead.

The planting of eucalyptus trees is out of favour at present, but it appears to have been successful in Portugal, not from any prophylactic virtues in the plant, but through the great absorption of moisture by its deep roots, which tends to dry the subsoil.

The best time for planting is in spring, when the young shoots have just started.

The St Lawrence is far the most important Canadian river from the historic and economic points of view, since it provided the main artery of exploration in early days, and with its canals past rapids and between lakes still serves as a great highway of trade between the interior of the continent and the seaports of Montreal and Quebec. It is probable that politically Canada would have followed the course of the States to the south but for the planting of a French colony with widely extended trading posts along the easily ascended channel of the St Lawrence and the Great Lakes, so that this river was the ultimate bond of union between Canada and the empire.

River sand and the sharp grit washed up sometimes by the road side are excellent materials for laying around choice bulbs at planting time to prevent contact with earth which is perhaps manure-tainted.

In Othello is a character named Iago, an evil man who never does anything illegal himself but is always planting ideas in other people's minds, to get them to do his dirty work.

For most areas of the country, planting fall vegetables in late summer is a great idea.

They cannot await the results of another planting, A'Ran mused.

Lana obeyed, planting one hand on the laser wound in his side.

As someone accustomed to planting ideas in the heads of others, she recognized the thought as coming from someone else.

From 1701 to 17 21 Collier was employed on his Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary, founded on, and partly translated from, Louis Moreri's Dictionnaire historique, and in the compilation and issue of the two volumes folio of his own Ecclesiastical History of Great Britian from the first planting of Christianity to the end of the reign of Charles II.

Care should be taken in planting to select a spot somewhat elevated and well drained.

Till the spring of 327 Alexander was moving to and fro in Bactria and Sogdiana, beating down the recurrent rebellions and planting Greek cities.

In planting, the tops of the bulbs should be kept a little above ground, and it is a commendable plan to draw away the soil surrounding the bulbs when they have got root-hold.

This was the planting of a colony of communistic per week for which such wages are payable, with the rates for overtime when those hours are exceeded.

They are skilful hunters, however, catch fish by in geniously constructed traps, and live almost entirely on jungle-roots of these people is found in Upper Perak, and the members of this clan have acquired some knowledge of the art of planting, &c. They they have been raided by the latter, and many Negritos are to be found in captivity in some of the Malayan villages on the eastern side of the peninsula.

Besides copying the Roman habit of planting military colonies, the First Consul imitated the old conquerors of the world by extending and completing the road-system of his outlying districts, especially at those important passes, the Mont Cenis and Simplon.

In such cases the immediate damage done may be slight; but the effects of prolonged action and the summation of numerous attacks at numerous points are often enormotis, certain of these leafdiseases costing millions sterling annually to some planting and agricultural communities.

Year by year the influence of the Mahommedan tribes on the north leads to the cutting down of the forest, the extension of both planting and pasture and the introduction of cattle and even horses.

The principal wealth of the island is derived from its olive groves; notwithstanding the destruction of many thousands of trees during each successive insurrection, the production is apparently undiminished, and will probably increase very considerably owing to the planting of young trees and the improved methods of cultivation which the Government is endeavouring to promote.

By draining the land, by planting millions of trees and by erecting numerous buildings, he greatly improved the condition of his Aberdeenshire estates, and studied continually the welfare of his dependants.

The author then points out the great advantages of enclosure; recommends " quycksettynge, dychynge and hedgeyng "; and gives particular directions about settes, and the method of training a hedge, as well as concerning the planting and management of trees.

In October 1530 he broke into the church of Neuchatel with an iconoclastic mob, thus planting the Reformation in that city.

In 1701, New York, seeking another claim, obtained from the Iroquois a grant to the king of England of this territory which they claimed to have conquered but from which they had subsequently been expelled, and this grant was confirmed in 1726 and again in 1744 About 1730 English traders from Pennsylvania and Virginia began to visit the eastern and southern parts of the territory and the crisis approached as a French Canadian expedition under Celeron de Bienville took formal possession of the upper Ohio Valley by planting leaden plates at the mouths of the principal streams. This was in 1749 and in the same year George II.

Planting begins early in March in Southern Texas, and the first blooms will appear there about May 15.

Planting may be done as late as April 15 in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and continue as late as the end of May.

Inland the Malays live by M o e, o preference on the banks of rivers, building houses on piles some feet from the ground, and planting groves of coco-nut, betel-nut, sugar-palm and fruit-trees around their dwellings.

Planting crosses in the open fields he drew the people to desert the churches, and had won a great following throughout all Neustria.

Of this amount 416,862 tons were produced by 24 estates yielding more than i r,000 tons each, including one (planting 28,050 acres) that yielded 33,609, and 4 others more than 22,000 tons each.

His work consisted largely in organizing the Christian societies which he found in existence on his arrival, and in planting the faith in regions such as the extreme west of Connaught which had not yet come under the sway of the gospel.