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[the same pronunciation]

“Plant”, as a noun, is ‘a small tree with soft stem, usually with flowers or vegetables grown in gardens or in fields as a crop’; and as a verb, it is ‘to put seeds or shoots of plants into the soil in order to grow new plants in the gardens or fields; to fix something  firmly in something else; to put something or oneself firmly in one place’,

e.g.

Our garden is full of rose plants.

Farmers plant vegetable plants when the rains begin in the monsoon season.

(‘plant’ – verb; ‘plants’ – noun in plural form)

A fat man planted himself right in the middle of the doorway blocking our way!

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“Plant” (noun) is ‘a factory; machines or machinery used in an industry or in manufacturing something’,

e.g.

Our factory is planning to buy a new power plant for producing electricity.

This town is more polluted than any other because there are many chemical plants in and around it.

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“Plant” (noun) is ‘something, like some evidence, that is kept secretly in a place in order to incriminate somebody (i.e. to put somebody in a bad or dangerous position, usually related to crime); (verb) is ‘to keep something (some object as evidence) secretly at place to cause problem to somebody else’;  and a person who is placed or sent somewhere, usually to an office or an organisation as an employee, to get some secrets or some information secretly’,

e.g.

The innocent man tried to explain to the police that the drugs they found in his bag were a plant.   [i.e. somebody put the drugs there to make him look a criminal]

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