plant
- noun
- /plænt/
- I worked on a number of projects, including a new olefins plant under the European contractor Technip.
- power plant
- nuclear plant
- manufacturing plant
A long time ago in a fabrication plant far, far away.
- A long time ago in a fabrication plant far, far away.
- But during that time, meat plants cease to operate.
Examples
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Why is the licensing of this plant important to California?
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Sayle has a manufacturing plant in Cornwall.
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Employees described holding multiple types of jobs at the plant and being moved where they were needed.
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Students can learn about the number of nuclear power plants in operation and their capacity.
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Just six months into full-scale operation, the plant has eight employees working seven days a week.
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The problem began with the construction of a hydroelectric power plant in West Virginia.
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You have a waste-processing plant next to a recreation area.
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Look, there's a chemical plant.
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And these so-called new clean coal plants don't come cheaply.
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Foxconn plans to build a new manufacturing plant in America, which will create thousands of jobs.
Synonyms
A building where people make goods using machines
A building where things are made or raw materials are processed
A building used for a particular service like a factory or base
A large place with buildings and machines where materials are made or treated
A large factory where goods are made using machines
A factory where parts are put together to make a product
A group of buildings where goods are made with machines
Idioms
Compounds
A place where old paper, glass, and plastic are cleaned and made ready to be used again
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A tiny living part of a plant with a stiff wall, green chloroplasts, and a large storage space inside
Large tropical tree often kept indoors as a houseplant that can make natural rubber
A small garden plant with white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds
A plant with long narrow leaves and small white or pink flowers often grown indoors
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A poisonous plant with bell-shaped flowers and shiny black berries used to make atropine
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A place where dirty water and other waste are cleaned and made safe
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A plant in the potato and tomato family that can be dangerous to eat
The part of a company that builds, maintains, and looks after its buildings and machines
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A sickness that harms plants, often caused by fungi, bacteria, or viruses
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A natural chemical in plants that controls their growth and responses
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A plant grown for its leaves that are dried and made into cigarettes or cigars
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A plant with special tubes that carry water and nutrients, like ferns or trees
- UK
A South American garden plant with green, purple, or red leaves and small woolly flower spikes
A South American herb with colorful leaves and small woolly flower spikes grown for gardens
A plant that grows in very wet, soft ground like bogs and marshes and can live in poor soil
A bush that grows small flat beans you can eat, often served as a vegetable
A flowering plant with colorful, often fragrant flowers that look like butterflies
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A tropical plant that grows peppers used in cooking or as spice
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A marsh plant from northern California and Oregon with twisted cup-shaped leaves that trap insects and hanging yellow-green flowers
A tropical shrub with purple or red tube-shaped flowers and leaves with patterns like a human face
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
A large tropical bush with wide leaves that has seeds used for castor oil and contains a poison called ricin
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Etymology
Plant used for a factory comes from the idea of a plantation or place where people put things to grow. So a factory is called a plant because it is a place set up to make and 'grow' products.