Hoping to grow some chlorophyll
rentability
English[edit]
- The quality or degree of being rentable.
打rentability study ，多跑出profitability study
Feasibility and profitability study. Construction of a biogas plant to produce fuel for Tartu city buses ...
我以前查過，rentability 是早期經濟學的用語......
我今天看到BBC學習英文對Plant的解釋：
plants
large factories
這遠比牛津字典的說明簡潔：
A place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place
chlorophyll
葉綠素
a green pigment, present in all green plants and in cyanobacteria, responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis. Its molecule contains a magnesium atom held in a porphyrin ring.
1A 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.
1.1A small plant, as distinct from a shrub or tree:garden plants
Plants differ from animals in lacking specialized sense organs, having no capacity for voluntary movement, having cell walls, and growing to suit their surroundings rather than having a fixed body plan
2A place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place:a giant car plant
2.1[MASS NOUN] Machinery used in an industrial or manufacturing process:inadequate investment in new plant
3A person placed in a group as a spy or informer:we thought he was a CIA plant spreading disinformation
3.1A thing put among someone’s belongings to incriminate or compromise them.
4Snooker 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.
VERB
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1Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow:we planted a lot of fruit trees
1.1Cover or supply (an area of land) with plants:the garden is planted with herbs
1.2(
plant something out)
Place a plant in the ground out of doors so it can grow, especially after growing it from seed in an indoor environment:the foxgloves are grown from seed and planted out in the autumn
1.3INFORMAL Bury (someone):it was raining when we planted him
2[WITH OBJECT AND ADVERBIAL OF PLACE] Set or place in a particular position:he planted himself squarely in front of hershe planted a kiss on his cheek
2.1Establish (an idea) in someone’s mind:the seed of doubt is planted in his mind
2.2Secretly place (a bomb that is set to go off at a later time):several incendiary devices were planted in stores
2.3Put or hide (something) among someone’s belongings to compromise or incriminate the owner:they claimed that the drugs had been planted on them by police
2.4Send (someone) to join a group or organization to act as a spy or informer:he managed to plant an agent in his war council
2.5Found or establish (a colony, city, or community):he was commissioned to plant the order in England
2.6Deposit (young fish, spawn, oysters, etc.) in a river or lake.
Origin
Old English plante 'seedling', plantian (verb), from Latinplanta 'sprout, cutting' (later influenced by French plante) and plantare 'plant, fix in a place'.
NOUN (plural factories)
1A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine:a clothing factory[AS MODIFIER]: factory workers
1.1[WITH MODIFIER] A person or organization that continually produces a great quantity of something specified:the group have become a rock-and-roll hit factory
2HISTORICAL An establishment for traders carrying on business in a foreign country:he is chaplain to the British factory at St Petersburg
Origin
late 16th century (in sense 2): via Portuguese
feitoriafrom medieval Latin
factoria, from Latin
factor (see
factor).
sense 1 based on late Latin
factorium, literally 'oil press'.
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