A building where machines are used to make things is usually called a factory.
A place where things are made or where an industrial process takes place can also be called a works. A works can consist of several buildings and may include outdoor equipment and machinery.
After works you can use either a singular or plural form of a verb.
A building where a particular material is made is often called a mill.
A building where chemicals are produced is called a chemical plant.
A power station can also be referred to as a plant.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() bottling plant - a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps brewery - a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation building complex, complex - a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures distillery, still - a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill - a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing gas system - facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service mint - a plant where money is coined by authority of the government packing plant, packinghouse - a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products recycling plant - a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials refinery - an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance saltworks - a plant where salt is produced commercially disposal plant, sewage disposal plant - a plant for disposing of sewage |
2. | ![]() organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently botanical medicine, herbal therapy, phytotherapy - the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) microorganism, micro-organism - any organism of microscopic size phytoplankton - photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae parasite - an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host coca - dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect fugaciousness, fugacity - the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) circulation - free movement or passage (as of cytoplasm within a cell or sap through a plant); "ocean circulation is an important part of global climate"; "a fan aids air circulation" botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae - (botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants microflora - microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora crop - a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale endemic - a plant that is native to a certain limited area; "it is an endemic found only this island" holophyte - an organism that produces its own food by photosynthesis non-flowering plant - a plant that does not bear flowers plantlet - a young plant or a small plant wilding - a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) ornamental - any plant grown for its beauty or ornamental value pot plant - a plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors) acrogen - any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem apomict - a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis aquatic - a plant that lives in or on water cryptogam - formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi annual - (botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year biennial - (botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season perennial - (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more escape - a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild hygrophyte - a plant that grows in a moist habitat neophyte - a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously embryo - (botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium sporophyte - the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations gametophyte - the gamete-bearing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations houseplant - any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes garden plant - any of a variety of plants usually grown especially in a flower or herb garden tracheophyte, vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms plant part, plant structure - any part of a plant or fungus poisonous plant - a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it rock plant - plant that grows on or among rocks or is suitable for a rock garden autophyte, autophytic plant, autotroph, autotrophic organism - plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances squamule - a minute scale myrmecophyte - plant that affords shelter or food to ants that live in symbiotic relations with it nitrification - the oxidation of ammonium compounds in dead organic material into nitrates and nitrites by soil bacteria (making nitrogen available to plants) | |
3. | plant - an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience | |
4. | plant - something planted secretly for discovery by another; "the police used a plant to trick the thieves"; "he claimed that the evidence against him was a plant" dodge, stratagem, contrivance - an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track" | |
Verb | 1. | plant - put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground; "Let's plant flowers in the garden" lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" root - plant by the roots puddle - dip into mud before planting; "puddle young plants" checkrow - plant in checkrows bed - place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil dibble - plant with a wooden hand tool; "dibble Spring bulbs" replant - plant again or anew; "They replanted the land"; "He replanted the seedlings" tree - plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer" |
2. | plant - fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" pot - plant in a pot; "He potted the palm" nest - fit together or fit inside; "nested bowls" | |
3. | plant - set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new department" initiate, pioneer - take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants" fix - set or place definitely; "Let's fix the date for the party!" appoint, constitute, name, nominate - create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee" | |
4. | plant - place into a river; "plant fish" animal husbandry - breeding and caring for farm animals stock - provide or furnish with a stock of something; "stock the larder with meat" | |
5. | plant - place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive; "Plant a spy in Moscow"; "plant bugs in the dissident's apartment" | |
6. | plant - put firmly in the mind; "Plant a thought in the students' minds" communicate, pass along, put across, pass on, pass - transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" |