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pot

/pɒt/

noun

Meaning

  • A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.

  • Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly

  • Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. Rowten Pot

  • Ruin or deterioration.

    "After his arrest, his prospects went to pot."

  • An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.

  • A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.

  • The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; any sum of money being used as an enticement.

  • A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.

  • A plaster cast.

Synonyms

cooking pot,
cookpot,
kitty,
pool

verb

Meaning

  • To put (something) into a pot.

    "to pot a plant"

  • To preserve by bottling or canning.

    "potted meat"

  • To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.

  • To be capable of being potted.

    "The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way."

  • To shoot with a firearm.

  • To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.

  • To secure; gain; win; bag.

  • To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.

  • To tipple; to drink.

  • To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.

  • To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.

  • To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.

noun

Meaning

  • Marijuana

noun

Meaning

  • 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.

noun

Meaning

  • A large, swollen, or protruding abdomen; a paunch.

  • A potbelly stove.

  • A Vietnamese Pot-bellied pig.

Synonyms

kettlebelly

noun

Meaning

  • A small portion or dose of a liquid which is medicinal, poisonous, or magical.

    "He hoped to win the princess's heart by mixing the love potion the witch gave him into her drink."

Synonyms

lib

noun

Meaning

  • A shot taken at an easy or random target.

  • Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.

noun

Meaning

  • An old size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

    "pott paper"