pot
IPA: pˈɑt
noun
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
- Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- (archaic except in fixed expressions) A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- (obsolete) An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch. [A large, swollen, or protruding abdomen; a paunch. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]]
- (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot. [A shot taken at an easy or random target.]
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches. [An old size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.]
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion. [A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.]
verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (snooker, pool, billiards) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (snooker, pool, billiards) To be capable of being potted.
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (Britain) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
- (obsolete, dialect, UK) To tipple; to drink.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (transitive, Britain) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
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Examples of "pot" in Sentences
- The pot is zesty.
- The pot has a clamshell.
- They broil the fish in a pot.
- The drum is in the shape of a pot.
- Can someone stop the pot rattling
- Is that the pot or the black kettle
- It's a matter of the pot and the kettle.
- The unique feature is the handle on the pot.
- Doyle is credited with the invention of the Pot Noodle.
- The texture on the rim of the pot is also due to the slip.
- You could say the eye that judges a pot is also a writer's eye.
- Heat is then transferred from the pot to the food inside the pot by conduction.
- A little later, about the middle of the sixteenth century, the favorite paper mark was the jug or pot, from which would appear to have originated the term pot paper.
- I've got a feeling the BLUE plant in the terracotta pot is a plumbago (is it, Kristin?) ... having a friendly conversation with the RED busy lizzies in the old bucket.
- The word "pot" to me had the quotation-marked ring of moms and teacher trying to sound hipper than they really were, which was unpleasantly close to a description of myself.
- The term pot-head takes on new meaning with a study that suggests adolescents and young adults who smoked a lot of marijuana are more likely than non-users to have disrupted brain development.
- Put the potatoes, carrot and rice into another pot* with the rest of the chicken stock, bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes, then put the contents of this pot into the pot with the cucumber and simmer for 5 more minutes.
- When for any reason it is necessary to put a small or weakly rooted plant or cutting, or a cutting that is just on the point of sending forth roots, in a pot that seems too large, _put it near the edge of the pot_, instead of in the middle.