pom
IPA: pˈɔm
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
- (cocktail) A cocktail containing pomegranate juice and vodka.
- (informal) Synonym of Pomeranian, a dog breed or a dog of this breed.
- (chemistry) Initialism of polyoxometalate. [(chemistry) Any of several metallates containing cluster of transition metal atoms ligated to oxygen and other atoms; they are either synthetic or occur naturally as minerals]
- (computing) Initialism of Project Object Model.
- (countable, medicine) Initialism of Prescription-Only Medication.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polyoxymethylene. [(chemistry) A polymer of formaldehyde having a repeat unit of -CH₂-O- ; it is used in engineering to make small gears etc]
- Initialism of pivaloyloxymethyl. [(organic chemistry) A protecting group, (CH₃)₃C-CO-O-CH₂, used in organic synthesis and to produce prodrugs.]
- Abbreviation of Port Moresby. [The capital city of Papua New Guinea.]
- (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) Alternative letter-case form of pom, an Englishman or Briton. [(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly derogatory slang) An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.]
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Examples of "pom" in Sentences
- Jackson comes with Maven "pom" - files; the only dependencies are:
- Pomegranates -- The power of the pom is it's great source of iron and vitamin C.
- It was a welcome sound, and still more welcome the "pom -- pom -- pom -- _pom_," like the bark of a good dog, that sounded immediately afterwards.
- We delivered our dispatches, and were getting ready for a gallop over the quarter mile of veldt, when, _pom, pom, pom, pom_, came a dozen one-pounders a few yards away right across our track.
- Most of the night i was drinking rum and coke. then my mom got a drink called a pom pom some tasty syrup with vodka, its strong at first but when you get close to drinking it, you don't even notice the vodka.
- On Dauphin Island, workers contracted by BP wore rubber boots and gloves to lay down oil-absorbing synthetic fibers called pom-poms, erect storm fencing along the beach and collect samples of the tar and water for testing.
- In Alabama, BP-contracted workers in rubber boots and gloves laid down clusters of oil-absorbing synthetic fibers called pom-poms, erected storm fencing along the Dauphin Island beach and collected samples of the tar and water for testing.
- On Saturday, a team of dozens of BP-contracted workers in rubber boots and gloves laid down special clusters of oil-absorbing synthetic fibers called pom-poms, erected storm fencing along the Dauphin Island beach and collected samples of the tar and water for testing.
- This space, which it was not lawful to till or inhabit, the Romans called the pomœrium, not for its being without the wall, more than for the wall's being without it: and in enlarging the city, as far as the walls were intended to proceed outwards, so far these consecrated limits were likewise extended.
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