Plates

Definition

plant /plɑ:nt; US plænt/ n ၁။ [C] (က) အပင္။ plant life ❍ Plants need light and water. (ခ) အပင္ငယ္မ်ဳိး။ garden/flowering/indoor plants ❍ grow tomato plants. See also HOUSE-PLANT, POT PLANT ၂။ (က) [U] စက္႐ံု ပစၥည္း။ plant hire (ie renting of machines or equipment) ❍ The firm has made a huge investment in new plant. (ခ) [C] စက္။ The farm has its own power plant. ၃။ [C] စက္႐ံု။ a car assembly plant ❍ a chemical plant ❍ a nuclear reprocessing plant. ❍ FACTORY ၄။ [C] ( infml ) (က) (ဘိန္းပစ္ဖမ္းသကဲ့သို႔) ေထာင္ဖမ္းမႈ။ He claimed that the drugs found in his house were a plant. (ခ) သူလွ်ဳိအျဖစ္ထည့္ထားသူ။ They discovered that he was a police plant. (ဂ) ပရိသတ္အတြင္း ဒလန္အျဖစ္ထည့္ထားသူ။ အလံ႐ႉး။ There were several plants in the studio audience to start people laughing or clapping. v ၁။ (က) (သစ္ပင္၊ ပန္းပင္စသည္) စိုက္သည္။ plant flowers around the pool ❍ We planted beans and peas in the vegetable garden. ❍ Plant them in rows one metre apart. (ခ) ~ sth (with sth) (ဥယ်ာဥ္၊ စိုက္ခင္းစသည္) စိုက္သည္။ plant a garden ❍ plant the border with spring flowers ❍ mountain slopes planted with conifers. Compare SOW 1 ၂။ (က) အခိုင္အမာတည္ထားသည္။ He planted his feet firmly on the ground. ❍ She stood with her feet planted wide apart. (ခ) ( infml ) ထည့္သည္။ ေနရာယူသည္။ plant a bomb on an aeroplane ❍ He planted himself in front of the fire. ၃။ ( infml ) (က) ~ sth (on sb) ေထာင္ဖမ္းသည္။ plant stolen goods on sb ❍ She claimed that the drugs had been planted (on her). (ခ) ~ sb (in sth) သူလွ်ဳိထည့္သည္။ အလံ႐ႉးထည့္သည္။ The police had planted a spy in the gang. ❍ The speaker's supporters had been planted in the audience and they applauded loudly. ၄။ ~ sth (in sth) ဦးေႏွာက္ထဲထည့္သည္။ အႀကံေပးသည္။ plant doubts/suspicions/rumours ❍ Who planted that notion in your head? ၅။ နမ္းသည္။ ေမႊးေမႊး ေပးသည္။ He planted a kiss on her cheek. ❏ planter n ၁။ (အပူပိုင္းေဒသမ်ားတြင္) ၿခံစိုက္သူ။ ၿခံရွင္။ ၿခံသမား။ a sugar-planter/rubber-planter/tea-planter. ၂။ အေစ့စိုက္စက္။ ၃။ ပ်ဳိးအိုး။ a strawberry planter. ❏ plant sth out [ PHRV ] ခ်ဲစိုက္သည္။ plant out tomato seedlings.

Examples

1. A garden/pot/house plant
2. A strawberry plant
3. A nuclear/chemical plant
4. A power/processing plant
5. A car assembly plant (=where cars are put together from parts)
6. Plant hire (=industrial machines for rent)