Pot POT, n. 1. A vessel more deep than broad, made of earth, or
iron or other metal, used for several domestic purposes; as an iron pot,
for boiling meat or vegetables; a pot for holding liquors; a cup, as a
pot of ale; an earthen pot for plants, called a flower pot, etc. 2. A
sort of paper of small sized sheets. To go to pot, to be destroyed,
ruined, wasted or expended. [A low phrase.] POT, v.t. To
preserve seasoned in pots; as potted fowl and fish. 1. To inclose
or cover in pots of earth. 2. 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 through the
spongy stalk of a plantain leaf.
pot I. nounEtymology: Middle English, from Old English pott; akin to
Middle Low German pot pot Date: before 12th century 1.a. a usually rounded metal or earthen container used chiefly for
domestic purposes (as in cooking or for holding liquids or growing plants);
also any of various technical or industrial vessels or enclosures
resembling or likened to a household pot <the pot of a still>
b.potful <a pot of coffee>
2. an enclosed framework of wire, wood, or wicker for catching fish
or lobsters 3.a. a large amount (as of money) b.(1) the total of the bets at stake at one time (2) one
round in a poker game
c. the common fund of a group 4.potshot5.potbelly6.ruin <gone to pot> 7.British a shot in snooker in which a ball is pocketed 8.
a vessel for urination and defecation: as
a.toilet 3b b.pottyII. verb (potted; potting)
Date: 1616 transitive verb1.a. to place in a pot b. to pack or preserve
(as cooked and chopped meat) in a sealed pot, jar, or can often with aspic
2. to shoot with a potshot 3. to make or shape (earthenware)
as a potter 4. to embed (as electronic components) in a container
with an insulating or protective material (as plastic)
intransitive verb to take a potshot
III. nounEtymology: perhaps modification of Mexican
Spanish potiguayaDate: 1938
marijuanaIV. abbreviation1. potential 2. potentiometer
pot 1. n. & v. --n. 1 a vessel, usu. rounded, of ceramic ware or metal or glass for holding liquids or solids or for cooking in. 2 a a coffee-pot, flowerpot, glue-pot, jam-pot,
teapot, etc. b = chimney-pot. c = lobster-pot. 3 a drinking vessel of pewter etc. 4 the contents of a pot (ate a whole pot of jam). 5 the total amount of the bet in a game etc. 6 colloq.
a large sum (pots of money). 7 sl. a vessel given as a prize in an athletic contest, esp. a silver cup. 8 = pot-belly. --v.tr. (potted, potting) 1 place in a pot. 2 (usu. as potted
adj.) preserve in a sealed pot (potted shrimps). 3 sit (a young child) on a chamber pot. 4 pocket (a ball) in billiards etc. 5 shoot at, hit, or kill (an animal) with a pot shot. 6 seize or
secure. 7 abridge or epitomize (in a potted version; potted wisdom). Phrases and idioms: go to pot colloq. deteriorate; be ruined. pot-bellied having a pot-belly. pot-belly (pl.
-ies) 1 a protruding stomach. 2 a person with this. 3 a small bulbous stove. pot-boiler 1 a work of literature or art done merely to make the writer or artist a living. 2 a writer or
artist who does this. pot-bound (of a plant) having roots which fill the flowerpot, leaving no room to expand. pot cheese US cottage cheese. pot-herb any herb grown in a kitchen garden.
pot-hook 1 a hook over a hearth for hanging a pot etc. on, or for lifting a hot pot. 2 a curved stroke in handwriting, esp. as made in learning to write. pot-hunter 1 a person who
hunts for game at random. 2 a person who takes part in a contest merely for the sake of the prize. pot luck whatever (hospitality etc.) is available. pot of gold an imaginary reward; an ideal; a
jackpot. pot pie a pie of meat etc. or fruit with a crust baked in a pot. pot plant a plant grown in a flowerpot. pot roast a piece of meat cooked slowly in a covered dish. pot-roast v.tr. cook (a
piece of meat) in this way. pot-shot 1 a random shot. 2 a shot aimed at an animal etc. within easy reach. 3 a shot at a game-bird etc. merely to provide a meal. pot-valiant courageous
because of drunkenness. pot-valour this type of courage. Derivatives: potful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: OE pott, corresp. to OFris., MDu., MLG pot, f. pop.L 2. n.
sl. marijuana. Phrases and idioms: pot-head one who smokes this. Etymology: prob. f. Mex. Sp. potiguaya 3. n. & v. Austral. & NZ --n. a dropped goal in rugby
football. --v.tr. (potted, potting) score (a dropped goal). Etymology: perh. f. pot-shot
pot
(pots, potting, potted)Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1. A pot is a deep round container used for cooking stews, soups, and other food.
...metal cooking pots.N-COUNT
• A potof stew, soup, or other food is an amount of it contained in a pot.
He was stirring a pot of soup.N-COUNT: usu N of n
2. You can use pot to refer to a teapot or coffee pot.
There's tea in the pot.N-COUNT
• A potof tea or coffee is an amount of it contained in a pot.
He spilt a pot of coffee.N-COUNT: usu N of n
3. A pot is a cylindrical container for jam, paint, or some other thick liquid.
Hundreds of jam pots lined her scrubbed shelves.N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft n N
• A potof jam, paint, or some other thick liquid is an amount of it contained
in a pot.
...a pot of red paint.N-COUNT: usu N of n
4. A pot is the same as a flowerpot.
N-COUNT
5. If you pot a young plant, or part of a plant, you put it into a container filled
with soil, so it can grow there.
Pot the cuttings individually....potted plants.VERB: V n, V-ed
6. Pot is sometimes used to refer to the drugs cannabis and marijuana. (INFORMAL)
N-UNCOUNT
7. In the games of snooker and billiards, if you pot a ball, you succeed in hitting it
into one of the pockets.
He did not pot a ball for the next two frames.= pocket
VERB: V n
8.
see alsopotted, chamber pot, chimney pot, coffee pot, lobster pot, melting
pot}, plant pot
9. If you takepot luck, you decide to do something even though you do not know
what you will get as a result.
If you haven't made an appointment, take pot luck and knock on the door...He scorns the 'pot-luck' approach.PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR n
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Consolation game \Con`so*la"tion game\, match \match\, pot
\pot\, race \race\, etc.
A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of
contests.
Pot \Pot\, v. t.
1. To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a
pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed.
When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees,
and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue
it with dogs and pot it when treed. --Encyc. of
Sport.
2. To secure; gain; win; bag. [Colloq.]
Pot \Pot\, n.
1. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing
or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse
heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang]
2. (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in
a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also pot helmet.
3. (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the
pool.
Pot \Pot\, n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta,
Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.]
1. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a
great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables,
for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a
flower pot; a bean pot.
2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of
ale. ``Give her a pot and a cake.'' --De Foe.
4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top
of a chimney; a chimney pot.
5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
7. A perforated cask for draining sugar. --Knight.
8. A size of paper. See Pott.
Jack pot. See under 2d Jack.
Pot cheese, cottage cheese. See under Cottage.
Pot companion, a companion in drinking.
Pot hanger, a pothook.
Pot herb, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are
boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane,
and many others.
Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will
help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for
the table or for the market.
Pot metal.
(a) The metal from which iron pots are made, different
from common pig iron.
(b) An alloy of copper with lead used for making large
vessels for various purposes in the arts. --Ure.
(c) A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are
incorporated with the melted glass in the pot.
--Knight.
Pot plant (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the
monkey-pot.
Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria.
To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of
usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] --Dryden. --J. G.
Saxe.
Pot \Pot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Potted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Potting.]
To place or inclose in pots; as:
(a) To preserve seasoned in pots. ``Potted fowl and fish.''
--Dryden.
(b) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
(c) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler,
and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated
heads, through which the molasses drains off. --B.
Edwards.
(d) (Billiards) To pocket.
POT
pot: A term used as the translation of a number of Hebrew and Greek words
whose fundamental meaning seems to describe them as intended for the most
part to hold liquid or semi-liquid substances, but the pots of Ex 27:3
are intended to hold ashes.
(1) cir, the most common word for "pot." It designates most frequently some
household utensil, probably a pot or kettle for boiling. So 2Ki 4:38
ff; Ex 16:3; Jer 1:13 the King James Version; Eze 11:3,7,11,
"caldron"; 24:3,6 the King James Version; Mic 3:3; Zec 14:21, etc. It
is also used as the name of some vessel of the sanctuary. So Ex 27:3,
where the context shows it was intended to hold ashes; 1Ki 7:45; 2Ch
4:16; 2Ki 25:14. In Ps 60:8; 108:9, it is a pot for washing.
(2) parur (Nu 11:8; 1Sa 2:14), a vessel for boiling; in Jud 6:19,
a vessel for holding broth.
(3) dudh, rendered "pot" in Ps 81:6 in the King James Version, "basket"
in the Revised Version (British and American); "pot" both the King James
Version and the Revised Version (British and American) in Job 41:20.
(4) tsintseneth (Ex 16:33), the jar in which the manna was placed. This
jar or pot is mentioned in Heb 9:4 under the name stamnos.
(5) 'acon (2Ki 4:2), some kind of jar for holding oil.
(6) xestes (Mr 7:4), some kind of household utensil.
Mention may also be made of the word rendered "pot" in Le 6:28
the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American)
renders more correctly by the general term "vessel"; for the King James
Version "pots" (Ps 68:13) the Revised Version (British and American)
substitutes "sheepfolds." The root is uncertain. Those who render "sheepfolds"
connect with the related root in Ge 49:14; Jud 5:16. Others render
"fireplaces" or "ash heaps." See also "range for pots," in Le 11:35;
"pots," Jer 35:5 the King James Version, correctly "bowls" the Revised
Version (British and American); "refining pots" in Pr 17:3; 27:21.
See also FOOD.
Walter R. Betteridge
pot
pɔt n.
1 pan, saucepan, cauldron, cook-pot, stewpot; kettle: How many politicians have promised
the people 'a chicken in every pot'?
2 jackpot, bank, kitty: You will have to add ø5 to the pot to see my hand.
3 pot-belly, paunch, gut, Colloq corporation, beer belly, spare tyre, US bay window:
If he exercised more, Patrick wouldn't have such a pot.
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