Air plant
() A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone |
Bovey coal
() A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Caking coal
() See Coal. |
Canal coal
() See Cannel coal. |
Candle coal
() See Cannel coal. |
Cannel coal
() A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles. |
Coal
(n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance |
Coal
(n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter. |
Coal
(v. t.) To burn to charcoal |
Coal
(v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal. |
Coal
(v. t.) To supply with coal |
Coal
(v. i.) To take in coal |
Coal-black
(a.) As black as coal |
Coal-meter
(n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. |
Coal tar
() A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas |
Coal-whipper
(n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. |
Coal works
() A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
Day-coal
(n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
Dove plant
() A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove |
Fired
(imp. & p. p.) of Fire |
Flax-plant
(n.) A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth. |
Horse power
() The power which a horse exerts. |
Horse power
() A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute |
Horse power
() A machine worked by a horse, for driving other machinery |
Ice plant
() A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten like ice. It is native along the Mediterranean, in the Canaries, and in South Africa. Its juice is said to be demulcent and diuretic |
Kennel coal
() See Cannel coal. |
Plant
(n.) A vegetable |
Plant
(n.) A bush, or young tree |
Plant
(n.) The sole of the foot. |
Plant
(n.) The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business |
Plant
(n.) A plan |
Plant
(n.) An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth. |
Plant
(n.) A young oyster suitable for transplanting. |
Plant
(n.) To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth |
Plant
(n.) To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. |
Plant
(n.) To furnish, or fit out, with plants |
Plant
(n.) To engender |
Plant
(n.) To furnish with a fixed and organized population |
Plant
(n.) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of |
Plant
(n.) To set firmly |
Plant
(n.) To set up |
Plant
(v. i.) To perform the act of planting. |
Plant-cane
(n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon. |
Plant-eating
(a.) Eating, or subsisting on, plants |
Power
(n.) Same as Poor, the fish. |
Power
(n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent |
Power
(n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted |
Power
(n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering |
Power
(n.) The exercise of a faculty |
Power
(n.) The agent exercising an ability to act |
plant
flora
plant life | (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion |
| plant closing | act of shutting down operation of a plant |
| accession rise to power | the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne), Elizabeth's accession in |
| power dive | a dive of an airplane that is accelerated both by gravity and by the power of the engine |
| power play | (ice hockey) a play in which one team has a numerical advantage over the other as a result of penalties, the team was unable to capitalize on the power play |
| power play | a play in which there is a concentration of players in one location on the field of play, they used a power play to return the kickoff |
| power walking | a form of cardiopulmonary exercise consisting of rapid walking accompanied by vigorous swinging of the arms |
power play
squeeze play squeeze | an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power, she laughed at this sexual power play and walked away |
| power trip | (slang) a self-aggrandizing action undertaken simply for the pleasure of exercising control over other people |
Stations
Stations of the Cross | (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary |
| 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 |
air base
air station | a base for military aircraft |
| assembly plant | a factory where manufactured parts are assembled into a finished product |
beach wagon
station wagon
wagon estate car
beach waggon
station waggon
waggon | a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat |
booster booster amplifier
booster station
relay link
relay station
relay transmitter | an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal |
| bottling plant | a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps |
broadcasting station
broadcast station | a station equipped to broadcast radio or television programs |
bus terminal
bus depot
bus station
coach station | a terminal that serves bus passengers |
| chemical plant | an industrial plant where chemicals are produced |
| coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
| coal chute | a chute for coal |
| coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine
coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
| coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
dressing station
aid station | (military) a station located near a combat area for giving first aid to the wounded |
| electrical system electrical plant | utility that provides electricity |
electric meter
power meter | a meter for measuring the amount of electric power used |
factory
mill manufacturing plant
manufactory | a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing |
fire station
firehouse | a station housing fire apparatus and firemen |
fire tongs
coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
| first-aid station | a station providing emergency care or treatment before regular medical aid can be obtained |
gasoline station
gas station
filling station
petrol station | a service station that sells gasoline |
gearing
gear geartrain
power train
train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed, the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain |
| hammer power hammer | a power tool for drilling rocks |
heating system
heating plant
heating
heat | utility to warm a building, the heating system wasn't working, they have radiant heating |
lookout
observation tower
lookout station
observatory | a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings |
naval installation
shore station | military installation servicing naval forces |
| observation station | a station set up for making observations of something |
packinghouse
packing plant | a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products |
pay-phone
pay-station | a coin-operated telephone |
| 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 |
| point power point | a wall socket |