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Animal vs. Plant — What's the Difference?

Animal vs. Plant — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Animal and Plant

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Animal

Animals (also called Metazoa) are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.

Plant

Plants are mainly multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, plants were treated as one of two kingdoms including all living things that were not animals, and all algae and fungi were treated as plants.

Animal

A living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli
Wild animals adapt badly to a caged life
Humans are the only animals who weep

Plant

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

Animal

Relating to or characteristic of animals
Animal welfare
The evolution of animal life
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Plant

A place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place
A giant car plant

Animal

Relating to or denoting the pole or extremity of an embryo that contains the more active cytoplasm in the early stages of development.

Plant

A person placed in a group as a spy or informer
We thought he was a CIA plant spreading disinformation

Animal

Any of numerous multicellular eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Metazoa (or Animalia) that ingest food rather than manufacturing it themselves and are usually able to move about during at least part of their life cycle. Sponges, jellyfishes, flatworms, mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates are animals.

Plant

A shot in which the cue ball is made to strike one of two touching or nearly touching balls with the result that the second is potted.

Animal

An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.

Plant

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow
We planted a lot of fruit trees

Animal

A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner.

Plant

Set or place in a particular position
She planted a kiss on his cheek
He planted himself squarely in front of her

Animal

A human considered with respect to their physical nature, as opposed to rational or spiritual nature.

Plant

Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically containing chloroplasts, having cell walls made of cellulose, producing embryos, and lacking the power of locomotion. Plants include trees, bushes, herbs, ferns, mosses, and certain green algae.

Animal

A person having a specified aptitude or set of interests
“that rarest of musical animals, an instrumentalist who is as comfortable on a podium with a stick as he is playing his instrument” (Lon Tuck).

Plant

A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.

Animal

Relating to, characteristic of, or derived from an animal or animals, especially when not human
Animal cells.
Animal welfare.

Plant

Any of various fungi, algae, or protists that resemble plants and were formerly classified in the plant kingdom. Not in scientific use.

Animal

Relating to the physical as distinct from the rational or spiritual nature of people
Animal instincts and desires.

Plant

A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory
Works in an auto plant.

Animal

(science) A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).
A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.

Plant

The buildings, fixtures, and equipment, including machinery, tools, and instruments, necessary for an industrial operation or an institution
The university's mechanical plant.

Animal

(loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

Plant

A person placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior.

Animal

Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).

Plant

A person stationed in a given location as a spy or observer.

Animal

(figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
My students are animals.

Plant

A misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered.

Animal

(informal) A person of a particular type.
He's a political animal.

Plant

A remark or action in a play or narrative that becomes important later.

Animal

, thing.
A whole different animal

Plant

(Slang) A scheming trick; a swindle.

Animal

Of or relating to animals.
Animal instincts

Plant

To place or set (seeds, for example) in the ground to grow.

Animal

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
Animal passions

Plant

To place seeds or young plants in (land); sow
Plant a field in corn.

Animal

Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.

Plant

To place (spawn or young fish) in water or an underwater bed for cultivation
Plant oysters.

Animal

Excellent

Plant

To stock with spawn or fish.

Animal

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

Plant

To introduce (an animal) into an area.

Animal

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Plant

To place or fix in a certain position
Planted both feet on the ground.
Planted a kiss on my cheek.

Animal

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

Plant

To deliver (a punch or blow).

Animal

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

Plant

To fix firmly in the mind; implant
"The right of revolution is planted in the heart of man" (Clarence Darrow).

Animal

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

Plant

To establish; found
Plant a colony.

Animal

A living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Plant

To station (a person) for the purpose of functioning in secret, as by observing, spying, or influencing behavior
Detectives were planted all over the store.

Animal

Of the appetites and passions of the body;
Animal instincts
Carnal knowledge
Fleshly desire
A sensual delight in eating
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Plant

To place secretly or deceptively so as to be discovered or made public
Planted a gun on the corpse to make the death look like suicide.

Animal

Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals;
The animal kingdom
Animal instincts
Animal fats
Decaying vegetable matter

Plant

To conceal; hide
Planted the stolen goods in the warehouse.

Plant

(botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
The garden had a couple of trees, and a cluster of colourful plants around the border.

Plant

(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.

Plant

(ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.

Plant

Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.

Plant

A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.

Plant

An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
That gun's not mine! It's a plant! I've never seen it before!

Plant

Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).

Plant

A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.

Plant

(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.

Plant

(uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.

Plant

(obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

Plant

(obsolete) The sole of the foot.

Plant

A plan; a swindle; a trick.

Plant

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

Plant

A young oyster suitable for transplanting.

Plant

(control theory) The combination of process and actuator.

Plant

(ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

Plant

(transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
That gun's not mine! It was planted there by the real murderer!

Plant

(transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
Plant your feet firmly and give the rope a good tug.
To plant cannon against a fort; to plant a flag; to plant one's feet on solid ground

Plant

To place in the ground.

Plant

To furnish or supply with plants.
To plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest

Plant

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.

Plant

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
To plant a colony

Plant

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
To plant Christianity among the heathen

Plant

To set up; to install; to instate.

Plant

A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

Plant

A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.

Plant

The sole of the foot.

Plant

The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

Plant

A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick.
It was n't a bad plant, that of mine, on Fikey.

Plant

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

Plant

To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth; as, to plant maize.

Plant

To set in the ground for growth, as a young tree, or a vegetable with roots.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees.

Plant

To furnish, or fit out, with plants; as, to plant a garden, an orchard, or a forest.

Plant

To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
It engenders choler, planteth anger.

Plant

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony.
Planting of countries like planting of woods.

Plant

To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of; as, to plant Christianity among the heathen.

Plant

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.

Plant

To set up; to install; to instate.
We will plant some other in the throne.

Plant

To perform the act of planting.
I have planted; Apollos watered.

Plant

Buildings for carrying on industrial labor;
They built a large plant to manufacture automobiles

Plant

A living organism lacking the power of locomotion

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

Plant

An actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience

Plant

Put or set (seeds or seedlings) into the ground;
Let's plant flowers in the garden

Plant

Fix or set securely or deeply;
He planted a knee in the back of his opponent
The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum

Plant

Set up or lay the groundwork for;
Establish a new department

Plant

Place into a river;
Plant fish

Plant

Place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive;
Plant a spy in Moscow
Plant bugs in the dissident's apartment

Plant

Put firmly in the mind;
Plant a thought in the students' minds

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