PLANTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does planting mean? 

• PLANTING (noun)
  The noun PLANTING has 3 senses:

1. the act of fixing firmly in place

2. a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area

3. putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow

  Familiarity information: PLANTING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of fixing firmly in place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway

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 2

Meaning:

A collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner

Hypernyms ("planting" is a kind of...):

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the planting of corn is hard work

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)

 Context examples 

You were presented with a great many opportunities, and you were busy planting seeds for an entirely new 12-year cycle.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The findings could have important implications for planning and public health policy, and suggest that tree planting could play a role in reducing the effects of air pollution from cars.

(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight in improving and planting.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The good fellow was heartbroken at it, and went out to the Terai tea planting, where I hear that he is doing well.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This huge amount of carbon storage doesn't require costly tree plantings or conversion of farmlands.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

When planting fields, we should be thinking about how what we do — whether it is age structuring of crops or monocropping versus crop rotations, or what is in the soil and what is living nearby — can impact the acquisition and health of the plant microbiome.

(How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?, National Science Foundation)

Trees played a critical role in stopping the slides, and the researchers suggest that planting more trees - perhaps interspersed with rice fields - in areas that are intensively irrigated might reduce the risk of soil liquefaction.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

But this description, I confess, does by no means affect the British nation, who may be an example to the whole world for their wisdom, care, and justice in planting colonies; their liberal endowments for the advancement of religion and learning; their choice of devout and able pastors to propagate Christianity; their caution in stocking their provinces with people of sober lives and conversations from this the mother kingdom; their strict regard to the distribution of justice, in supplying the civil administration through all their colonies with officers of the greatest abilities, utter strangers to corruption; and, to crown all, by sending the most vigilant and virtuous governors, who have no other views than the happiness of the people over whom they preside, and the honour of the king their master.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For my own part, if I had anything within the fiftieth part of the size of Sotherton, I should be always planting and improving, for naturally I am excessively fond of it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The good news is that you have finished a lot of work planting seeds in you career over this period, reaching back to November 2018.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)