BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Plant
- the capital assets used to produce goods, typically factories, production lines, and large equipment
Wiktionary Definition for: Plant
- #An organism that is not an animal, especially a organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- botany An organism of the kingdom ''Plantae''. Traditionally (up to early 20th Century), any of the plants, fungi, lichens, algae, etc.
- botany An organism of the kingdom ''Plantae''. Now specifically, a living organism of the ''Embryophyta'' (land plants) or of the ''Chlorophyta'' (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll ''a'' and ''b'', or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- botany An organism of the kingdom ''Plantae''. cattag Ecology Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An industrial installation, specifically the apparatus or machinery.
- A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- An object placed surrepticiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- Ex:''That gun's not mine! It's a '''plant'''! I've never seen it before!''
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whole role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- cattag snooker A situation in which the cue ball hits one of a pair of touching (usually red) balls, in order to pot the other; a set.
- transitive To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- transitive To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- Ex:''"That gun's not mine! It was '''planted''' there by the real murderer!"
- transitive To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- Ex:'''''Plant''' your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.''
- plant (''organism'')
- cabbage (''person with severe brain damage'')
- #''first, second and third person singular indicative present tense and imperative of '''planten'''''
- #''second and third person singular indicative present tense and imperative of '''plannen'''''
- children Children.
Additional Resources
- Fisker to buy former Solstice/Sky plant for $18 million:
- The old General Motors plant in Delaware that until July cranked out sports cars for Pontiac, Saturn and Opel will be sold and retooled to build plug-in hybrids with UAW workers. Fisker Automotive said Tuesday that it will buy the plant, located in Wilmington, Del., from Motors Liquidation Co.--the old...
- News items 2009-10-27
- GM testing cellulosic ethanol from Coskata's demo plant
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- News items 2009-10-16
- California plant closure will be first for Toyota
- Toyota Motor Corp., a once-unstoppable but now money-losing automaker with idle production capacity, will stop making vehicles next year at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont, Calif. The decision, announced by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and company officials and referred to as "most unfortunate," is momentous for...
- News items 2009-08-28
- Green Plains, Sunoco Deals Highlight Bargain-Basement Ethanol Plant Prices
- It's remarkable what ethanol plants are going for these days. Two separate ethanol plant purchases this week shine a glaring light on how far prices have dropped since last year. With prices this low, the ethanol-producing industry is going to experience rapid consolidation, that's already begun. Philadelphia-based...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- POET to Use Corn Cobs - Not Natural Gas - to Power Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
- POET has figured out what the rest of the corn-based ethanol industry has failed to grasp: relying on price-volatile fossil fuels to power its plants is bad for business. POET announced Wednesday it will use corn cobs -- specifically the liquid waste created in the cob-to-fuel conversion process -- to power its...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Renewable Energy Firms May Buy Old Ford Plant
- Green energy advocates have been saying it all along: If the industry gets a chance, it will recreate the manufacturing base in America. So far, that thesis has been hard to prove. They need a really clear example -- an example like two renewable energy companies buying Ford's shuttered Wixom...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Largest U.S. Biomass Plant to be Built Near Austin, Texas
- The largest ever U.S. biomass power plant (100 megawatts) is to be built near Austin, Texas. Austin's city council approved a 20-year, $2.3 billion plan to purchase power from a proposed plant fueled entirely by wood waste and to be built and managed by Nacogdoches Power, LLC. The plant will...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Bayer's Lawyers Nix Public Hearing on Explosion at WV Plant
- Lawyers for Bayer have successfully persuaded the U.S. Chemical Safety Board to delay discussing why a Bayer chemical plant in West Virginia blew up, killing two people, last August. The public meeting, at which the safety board was to brief Kanawha Valley residents on its investigation into the explosion, was...
- Blog posts 2009-02-25
- Miracle Biofuel Plant Jatropha Reveals Its Achilles Heel
- Jatropha, a hardy, drought resistant plant that grows oil-heavy fruit, was supposed to be the salvation of the biodiesel industry. The plant, which was targeted for an $80 million pilot project by BP and D1 Oils, can grow on marginal lands that crops don't like. It tends to favor a...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- Eon puts Kingsnorth plant on hold
- The controversial new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent planned by German energy group Eon will probably not be operational until 2017 at the earliest, the company said on Wednesday, as it revealed it was delaying the investment decision on the project for "up to two to three years"....
- News items 2009-10-07
- Eon puts Kingsnorth plant on hold
- The controversial new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent planned by German energy group Eon will probably not be operational until 2017 at the earliest, the company said on Wednesday, as it revealed it was delaying the investment decision on the project for "up to two to three...
- External links 2009-10-07
- China Clean Energy finishes new biodiesel plant
- Fuqing City, China-based China Clean Energy said today it has completed construction of its Jiangyin plant, located about 20 miles from its existing plant. The company (OTCBB:CCGY) develops and manufactures biodiesel and environmentally-friendly specialty chemical products made from renewable resources through its subsidiaries, Fujian Zhongde Technology and Fujian Zhongde Energy....
- News items 2009-10-22
- Osmotic power plant opens, with commercial scale ambitions
- The world's first osmotic power plant opened today at Tofte, outside of Oslo. And it included a royal kickoff from the Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway, who pushed the button that set the turbines in motion. The plant has been developed over the past year by Norwegian state-owned electricity company...
- News items 2009-11-24
- GM names new manager of the Wentzville assembly plant
- General Motors named Mike Dulaney plant manager of the Wentzville assembly plant. Dulaney will relinquish his title as plant manager of GM's Pontiac, Mich., assembly plant and take the helm in Wentzville on July 1.General Motors named Mike Dulaney plant manager of the Wentzville assembly plant. Dulaney will relinquish his...
- Research articles 2006-06-07
- Intelligent dollies replace conveyers at new Nissan assembly plant.
- Nissan Motor Co Ltd opened its refurbished Kyushu assembly plant in May 1992. The Kyushu plant, which formerly was an engine plant, will have an annual production capacity of 600,000 vehicles. The $800 million plant has replaced conveyor belts with intellNissan Motor Co Ltd opened its refurbished Kyushu assembly plant...
- Research articles 1992-09-01
- MEXICO: VOLKSWAGEN PLANT STRIKE ENDS IN MEXICO.(Brief Article)
- The strike at the Volkswagen plant in Mexico ended yesterday after 18 days. The plant's workers accepted a 10.2% salary raise. Production began again yesterday at the plant that is located in the Puebla state in central Mexico. The plant produces the The strike at the...
- Research articles 2001-09-16
- Capitol Power Plant Protests Heighten Danger for Coal
- What do Washington, D.C.'s Capitol Power Plant, an E.ON plant in Kingsnorth, England and a mine in Konin, Poland have in common? Two things: The first is coal, and the second is a problem with protesters. Coal companies and investors have long known lower profit margins lay...
- Blog posts 2009-02-28
- Future of Slim Jim Plant Uncertain After ConAgra Tragedy
- ConAgra has promised to look after its employees after a plant explosion in Garner, North Carolina killed three and sent nearly 40 to the hospital. CEO Gary Rodkin visited the plant just after the explosion and promised that the company would pay for funerals, support the victims' families, and continue...
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Toyota to End California Plant Production
- By David Bailey and John Crawley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp will end production at a California plant it has shared with General Motors for 25 years, prompting regret and criticism from labor and politicians facing more job losses in an industry and a state pummeled by recession. The...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Maximum Economic Design Life for Desalination Plant: The Role of Auxiliary Equipment Materials Selection and Specification in Plant Reliability
- The role of material selection in optimizing plant costs has been already subject of several studies. These studies focused on the main plant items such as tube bundle, vessels, vessel linings, tube plates etc. as they are the major components to the plant costs and therefore represent the main source...
- White papers 2002-04-30
