'Planting' definitions:

Definition of 'planting'

From: WordNet
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The act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway"
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A collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner"
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Putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow; "the planting of corn is hard work"

Definition of 'Planting'

From: GCIDE
  • Plant \Plant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Planted; p. pr. & vb. n. Planting.] [AS. plantian, L. plantare. See Plant, n.]
  • 1. To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots. [1913 Webster]
  • Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees. --Deut. xvi. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of. [1913 Webster]
  • It engenders choler, planteth anger. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. [1913 Webster]
  • Planting of countries like planting of woods. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To set firmly; to fix; to set and direct, or point; as, to plant cannon against a fort; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. To set up; to install; to instate. [1913 Webster]
  • We will plant some other in the throne. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Planting'

From: GCIDE
  • Planting \Plant"ing\, n.
  • 1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which is planted; a plantation. [1913 Webster]
  • Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord. --Isa. lxi. 3. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Arch.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]

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