plant flora plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
Secretary of Energy Energy Secretary | the position of the head of the Department of Energy, the post of Energy Secretary was created in |
waste of effort waste of energy | a useless effort |
generation multiplication propagation | the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production |
generation | the production of heat or electricity, dams were built for the generation of electricity |
plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
leaf bug plant bug | small brightolored insect that feeds on plant juices |
four-lined plant bug four-lined leaf bug Poecilocapsus lineatus | yellow or orange leaf bug with four black stripes down the back, widespread in central and eastern North America |
tarnished plant bug Lygus lineolaris | widespread plant and fruit pest |
plant louse louse | any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants |
woolly aphid woolly plant louse | secretes a waxy substance like a mass of fine curly white cotton or woolly threads |
jumping plant louse psylla psyllid | small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping, feeds on plant juices |
plant hopper planthopper | related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants |
assembly plant | a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product |
bottling plant | a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps |
chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
electrical system electrical plant | utility that provides electricity |
factory mill manufacturing plant manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
heating system heating plant heating heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
packinghouse packing plant | a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products |
periwinkle plant derivative | an antineoplastic drug used to treat some forms of cancer |
plant works industrial plant | buildings for carrying on industrial labor, they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles |
power station power plant powerhouse | an electrical generating station |
recycling plant | a plant for reprocessing used or abandoned materials |
sewage disposal plant disposal plant | a plant for disposing of sewage |
steel mill steelworks steel plant steel factory | a factory where steel is made |
wind farm wind park wind energy facility | a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity |
energy muscularity vigor vigour vim | an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing), his writing conveys great energy, a remarkable muscularity of style |
energy push get-up-and-go | enterprising or ambitious drive, Europeans often laugh at American energy |
mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy |
energy vigor vigour zip | forceful exertion, he plays tennis with great energy, he's full of zip |
mass-energy equivalence | (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy |
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 |
particle physics high-energy physics high energy physics | the branch of physics that studies subatomic particles and their interactions |
conservation of energy law of conservation of energy first law of thermodynamics | the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes |
generation gap | a difference between the views of young people and their parents |
genesis generation | a coming into being |
oyster plant vegetable oyster | long white salsify |
plant department building department | the division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant |
Atomic Energy Commission AEC | a former executive agency (from to ) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States |
Department of Energy Energy Department Energy DOE | the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States, created in |
Department of Energy Intelligence DOEI | an agency that collects political and economic and technical information about energy matters and makes the Department of Energy's technical and analytical expertise available to other members of the Intelligence Community |
International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA | the United Nations agency concerned with atomic energy |
generation | group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent |
coevals contemporaries generation | all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age |
beat generation beats beatniks | a United States youth subculture of the s, rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress, for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism, favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop) |
baby boom baby-boom generation | the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II |
generation X gen X | the generation following the baby boom (especially Americans and Canadians born in the s and s) |
psychic energy mental energy | an actuating force or factor |