Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various usually domestic containers made of pottery, metal, or glass, as.
- noun A round, fairly deep cooking vessel with a handle and often a lid.
- noun A short round container for storing or serving food.
- noun A coffeepot.
- noun A teapot.
- noun Such a container and its contents.
- noun A potful.
- noun A large drinking cup; a tankard.
- noun A drink of liquor contained in such a cup.
- noun An artistic or decorative ceramic vessel of any shape.
- noun A flowerpot.
- noun Something, such as a chimney pot or chamber pot, that resembles a round cooking vessel in appearance or function.
- noun A trap for eels, other fish, or crustaceans, typically consisting of a wicker or wire basket or cage.
- noun The total amount staked by all the players in one hand in cards.
- noun The area on a card table where stakes are placed.
- noun A shot in billiards or related games intended to send a ball into a pocket.
- noun Informal A common fund to which members of a group contribute.
- noun Informal A large amount.
- noun Informal A potshot.
- noun Informal A potbelly.
- noun Informal A potty or toilet.
- intransitive verb To place or plant in a pot.
- intransitive verb To preserve (food) in a pot.
- intransitive verb To cook in a pot.
- intransitive verb To shoot (game) for food rather than for sport.
- intransitive verb Informal To shoot with a potshot.
- intransitive verb Informal To win or capture; bag.
- intransitive verb Games To hit (a ball) into a pocket.
- intransitive verb Informal To take a potshot.
- intransitive verb To make or shape objects from clay, as on a potter's wheel.
- noun Marijuana.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deceive.
- To put into pots.
- To preserve in pots, usually in the form of paste and often with high seasoning: as, potted meats or lobster.
- To stew; cook in a pot as a stew: as, to
pot pigeons. - To plant or set in pots: as, to
pot plants. - To put in casks for draining: as, to
pot sugar by taking it from the cooler and placing it in hogsheads with perforated heads, from which the molasses percolates. - To shoot; bring down by shooting; bag: as, to
pot a rabbit, a turkey, or an enemy; hence, to catch; secure: as, topot an heiress. - To cap. See
to cap verses , under cap, verb - To manufacture, as pottery or porcelain; especially, to shape and fire, as a preliminary to the decoration.
- To drink; tipple.
- To shoot at an enemy or at game; especially, to shoot to kill.
- noun A Danish liquid measure equal to .212 gallons.
- noun In poker, a jack-pot; a pool formed by equal contributions from all the players before the deal.
- noun In geology: The earthy or consolidated material found in a pot-hole.
- noun A pot-like cavity in rock, which contains earthy matter.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
At My Table 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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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.
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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.
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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.
Livescience.com 2009
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The texture on the rim of the pot is also due to the slip.
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You could say the eye that judges a pot is also a writer's eye.
Jesse Kornbluth: The Hare With Amber Eyes Has History, Mystery, Society, Hitler And More: Something For Everyone Jesse Kornbluth 2010
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The texture on the rim of the pot is also due to the slip.
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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.
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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.
pamelad commented on the word pot
10 oz glass, usually of beer.
February 9, 2007
oroboros commented on the word pot
Top in reverse.
November 3, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pot
In glassmaking, a fire clay container in which batch is fused and kept molten. The glassworker gathers glass directly from the pot.
November 9, 2007