Facebook's Anti-Google Fiasco Wall Street Journal By L. GORDON CROVITZ Facebook was caught red-handed last week being socially unfriendly to Google, its Silicon Valley competitor. It hired a public relations firm to plant negative stories about Google's privacy policies, and then it tried to hide its ...
red-handed
adjective
- used to indicate that a person has been discovered in or just after the act of doing something wrong or illegal."I caught him red-handed, stealing a wallet"
plant
- Botany.
- Any of various photosynthetic, eukaryotic, multicellular organisms of the kingdom Plantae characteristically producing embryos, containing chloroplasts, having cellulose cell walls, and lacking the power of locomotion.
- A plant having no permanent woody stem; an herb.
- A building or group of buildings for the manufacture of a product; a factory.
- The equipment, including machinery, tools, instruments, and fixtures and the buildings containing them, necessary for an industrial or manufacturing operation.
- The buildings, equipment, and fixtures of an institution: the entire plant of a university.
- A person or thing put into place in order to mislead or function secretly, especially:
- A person placed in a group of spectators to influence behavior.
- A person stationed in a given location as a spy or observer.
- A misleading piece of evidence placed so as to be discovered.
- A remark or action in a play or narrative that becomes important later.
- Slang. A scheming trick; a swindle.
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1 （動物に対して）植物, 草木（⇔animal）；（樹木に対して）草, 草本(herb)（⇔tree）
garden plants 園芸植物
a tropical plant 熱帯植物
a house plant 室内用鉢植え植物
a potted plant 鉢植え, 鉢物.
2 苗, 苗木；つぎ穂(slip)
rice plants 稲の苗.
3 (1) ((通例複合語で))工場
a chemical plant 化学工場
a nuclear energy plant 原子力発電所.
(2) 機械, 装置一式；（学校・病院などの）施設
a heating plant 暖房装置
an enormous university plant マンモス大学の施設.
4 [U]（生産のための）設備, 施設, プラント. ▼建物・敷地, 時に人員も含める.
5 ((略式))たくらみ, ペテン, わな, おとり；盗品.
6 （劇場や見せ物などの）「さくら」；回し者, 密偵, スパイ.
7 《演劇》伏線.
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