{"id":12588,"date":"2016-07-11T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12588"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:11:24","slug":"heavy-plant-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12588","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Plant Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/heavyplant.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Heavy Plant Crossing Sign\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you saw this sign, what kind of plant(s) would you expect to be crossing?<\/p>\n<p>In this context, plant refers to &#8220;a large, heavy machine or vehicle used in industry, for building roads, etc.&#8221; It can also mean &#8220;machines used in industry&#8221; or &#8220;a factory in which a particular product is made or power is produced&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/plant\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the first recorded use of <strong>plant<\/strong> for a factory dates from 1789 &#8211; this meaning developed from the idea of the factory being &#8216;planted&#8217; [<a href=\"http:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/9507\/why-is-heavy-machinery-called-plant\">source<\/a>]. Perhaps the meaning was extended to the machines used in factories, and to other large industrial machines.<\/p>\n<p>Is plant used to refer to large machines only in the UK?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you saw this sign, what kind of plant(s) would you expect to be crossing? In this context, plant refers to &#8220;a large, heavy machine or vehicle used in industry, for building roads, etc.&#8221; It can also mean &#8220;machines used in industry&#8221; or &#8220;a factory in which a particular product is made or power is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}