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
- A Seedpod is the pod of a fruit.
- Both teams sit in soundproof pods.
- The long hirsute pods shatter when ripe.
- The ends of the pod may be cut before boiling.
- The purpose of the pods is not merely aesthetic.
- The tenth floor of the pod is open to the public.
- The mobile pod is the predecessor of the mobile suit.
- The fruit is a legume pod variable in size and shape.
- Both the pod and the chorus are improvised in the moment.
- In upscale models, this pod was supplanted by a tachometer.