Difference between Constitute and Plant

What is the difference between Constitute and Plant?

Constitute as a verb is to cause to stand; to establish; to enact. while Plant as a verb is to place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.

Constitute

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to stand; to establish; to enact. To make up; to compose; to form. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.

Example sentence: Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Plant

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.To place or set something firmly or with conviction.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.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.Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.A large piece of machinery, such as used in earthmoving or road construction.

Example sentence: If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

We hope you now know whether to use Constitute or Plant in your sentence.

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