| Library / English Dictionary |
PLANTING
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow
Example:
the planting of corn is hard work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("planting" is a kind of...):
agriculture; farming; husbandry (the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "planting"):
insemination (the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.))
Derivation:
plant (put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of fixing firmly in place
Example:
he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("planting" is a kind of...):
emplacement; locating; location; placement; position; positioning (the act of putting something in a certain place)
Derivation:
plant (fix or set securely or deeply)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area
Example:
the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("planting" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb plant
