pod
IPA: pˈɑd
noun
- (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
- A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bag; a pouch.
- (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
- (by extension) A group of people who regularly interact.
- A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
- A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
- A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
- A nicotine cartridge.
- A lie-flat business or first class seat.
- A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
- A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
- (informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast. [A programme, especially an audio programme, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.]
- (uncountable, publishing) Initialism of print on demand. [(publishing) A system of printing very small runs of a document as required, especially by using computer technology.]
- (mail) Initialism of proof of delivery.
- (uncountable, programming) Initialism of plain old data. [(programming) Data structures that are represented as passive collections of field values.]
- (alternate history) Initialism of point of divergence. [In alternate history, the point where events diverge from real history.]
- Initialism of place of death.
verb
- (intransitive) To bear or produce pods
- (transitive) To remove peas from their case.
- (transitive, intransitive) To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
- (intransitive) To swell or fill.
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Examples of "pod" in Sentences
- Each pod is plugged into its own life supporting IV drip.
- The only time I've used a bi-pod is with a walking varmint rifle.
- Entering or exiting a pod is therefore rather like stepping on or off an escalator.
- Edamames are green soybeans, harvested while the pod is still soft and bright green.
- If you put the right amount of coffee in (the pod is almost too full to close properly), it works.
- Like a house of cards, the entire pod is fabricated from structural fibrous cement sheet, only held together by exposed galvanised steel braces.
- CINNAMON CREAM FOR BAKED PEARSdouble cream 300mlground cinnamon ½ tspthe vanilla pod from the baked pears abovePut the cream into a small, nonstick saucepan.
- The term "pod," used to connote a blank person, has become so much a part of everyday speech that even people who've never seen the movies or read Finney's novel know the gist of the nightmare he gave to America.
- At one end of the pod is always a kind of little hook; the unbroken pod was taken into the mouth with this little hook forward, between the teeth; and the eater, seizing the little hook between thumb and finger, drew it out of his mouth with the two little strings that were always attached to the hook.
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