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The act of fixing firmly in place
Answer for the clue "The act of fixing firmly in place ", 8 letters:
planting
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Word definitions for planting in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late Old English plantung "action of planting," also "a thing planted," verbal noun from plant (v.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A plant (or clipping) that has been freshly planted. vb. (present participle of plant English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Planting \Plant"ing\, n. 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. That which is planted; a plantation. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway" a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner" putting ...
Usage examples of planting.
Planting new male mulberry trees is prohibited by law because their pollen is a powerful allergen, and Tucson gains profit and riches as a refuge for allergy sufferers and hypochondriacs.
Spaniard to allot him a sufficient quantity of land for a plantation, and on my giving him some clothes and tools for his planting work, which he said he understood, having been an old planter at Maryland, and a buccaneer into the bargain.
Once there I would ride like blazes, and either get to the Blae Moor before him--in which case I would simply canter at ease up to the Mains of Blae--or, if I saw him ahead of me, fetch a circuit among the plantings and come in on the farm from the other side.
And though it invariably meant warmer days and planting and the blossoming of cherry and plum and apple, this year it was not being celebrated.
I pitched my voice high, smiling brainlessly, as if I had been planting Brimstone all night.
From these and many things of this sort, judge Douglas argues that they were in favor of the people of our own Territories excluding slavery if they wanted to, or planting it there if they wanted to, doing just as they pleased from the time they settled upon the Territory.
To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.
In their understandable zeal to go transrational, they often embrace any prerational occasion simply because it is nonrationalany occasion that looks biocentrically oriented, from horticultural planting mythology to rampant tribalism to blood magic and sensual glorification of a sentimental nature, all in the name, of course, of saving Gaia.
Besides, methought that was the purpose in the belated spring plantings.
On all the islands, the arts mostly practiced by witches, such as midwifery, healing, animal husbandry, dousing, mining and metallurgy, planting and growing spells, love spells, and so on, often invoked or drew upon the Old Powers.
They know I have misdirected them once before, by planting false information in the mind of one of our scouts.
Undulating, mortarless flagstone walls of varying heights supported a series of planting beds that radiated away from the curving center walk like the lines on a topographic map.
To soften the effect of the peastones, Ed and Susan decided on planting ferns along the borders of the path.
Alfred, he started to run away one night awhile back, after Pitman had whipped him for planting the wrong seed-corn.
Hadden had followed through on his promise about the front-office clothing, and Allesandro, who ran a beauty salon when he was not planting trees, had sat her down in his chair, looked intently into her face with dark, starlit eyes, and then had recut her hair into a simple but elegant coif that she had never thought possible for her lank and mousy locks.