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What does pot mean?

Definitions for pot
pɒtpot

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. potnoun

    metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid

  2. toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, thronenoun

    a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

  3. pot, potfulnoun

    the quantity contained in a pot

  4. pot, flowerpotnoun

    a container in which plants are cultivated

  5. batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wadnoun

    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

    "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

  6. pot, jackpot, kittynoun

    the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)

  7. pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummynoun

    slang for a paunch

  8. potentiometer, potnoun

    a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets

  9. pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Janeverb

    street names for marijuana

  10. potverb

    plant in a pot

    "He potted the palm"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Potnoun

    Etymology: pot, Fr. in all the senses, and Dutch; potte, Islandick.

    Toad that under the cold stone
    Swelter’d, venom sleeping got;
    Boil thou first i’th’ charmed pot. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Gigantick hinds, as soon as work was done,
    To their huge pots of boiling pulse would run,
    Fell to with eager joy. John Dryden.

    The woman left her water pot, and went her way. John.

    Whenever potters meet with any chalk or marl mixed with their clay, though it will with the clay hold burning, yet whenever any water comes near any such pots after they are burnt, both the chalk and marl will slack and spoil their ware. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

    But that I think his father loves him not,
    I’d have him poison’d with a pot of ale. William Shakespeare.

    Suppose your eyes sent equal rays,
    Upon two distant pots of ale,
    Not knowing which was mild or stale. Matthew Prior.

    A soldier drinks his pot, and then offers payment. Jonathan Swift.

    The sheep went first to pot, the goats next, and after them the oxen, and all little enough to keep life together. Roger L'Estrange.

    John’s ready money went into the lawyers pockets; then John began to borrow money upon the bank stock, now and then a farm went to pot. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of J. Bull.

  2. To Potverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    Potted fowl and fish come in so fast,
    That ere the first is out, the second stinks,
    And mouldy mother gathers on the brinks. Dryden.

    Pot them in natural, not forced earth; a layer of rich mould beneath, and about this natural earth to nourish the fibres, but not so as to touch the bulbs. John Evelyn.

    Acorns, mast and other seeds may be kept well, by being barrelled or potted up with moist sand. John Mortimer.

ChatGPT

  1. pot

    A pot is a container, usually rounded or cylindrical, made of various materials such as ceramic, metal, or glass, and used for cooking, storing food, or growing plants. It typically has a handle and often comes with a lid. The term "pot" can also colloquially refer to marijuana or cannabis in some contexts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Potnoun

    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. Potnoun

    an earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug

  3. Potnoun

    the quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale

  4. Potnoun

    a metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot

  5. Potnoun

    a crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot

  6. Potnoun

    a wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc

  7. Potnoun

    a perforated cask for draining sugar

  8. Potnoun

    a size of paper. See Pott

  9. Potverb

    to place or inclose in pots

  10. Potverb

    to preserve seasoned in pots

  11. Potverb

    to set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs

  12. Potverb

    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

  13. Potverb

    to pocket

  14. Potverb

    to tipple; to drink

  15. Etymology: [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.]

Wikidata

  1. Pot

    The pot in poker refers to the sum of money that players wager during a single hand or game, according to the betting rules of the variant being played. It is likely that the word "pot" is related to or derived from the word "jackpot." At the conclusion of a hand, either by all but one player folding, or by showdown, the pot is won or shared by the player or players holding the winning cards. Sometimes a pot can be split between many players. This is particularly true in high-low games where not only the highest hand can win, but under appropriate conditions, the lowest hand will win a share of the pot.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pot

    pot, n. a metallic vessel for various purposes, esp. for cooking: a drinking vessel: an earthen vessel for plants: the quantity in a pot: (slang) a large sum of money, a prize.—v.t. to preserve in pots: to put in pots: to cook in a pot: to plant in a pot: to drain, as sugar, in a perforated cask: to shoot an enemy.—v.i. (Shak.) to tipple:—pr.p. pot′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. pot′ted.—n. Pot′-ale, refuse from a grain distillery.—adj. Pot′-bell′ied, having a prominent belly.—ns. Pot′-bell′y, a protuberant belly; Pot′-boil′er, a work in art or literature produced merely to secure the necessaries of life; Pot′-boy, a boy in a public-house who carries pots of ale to customers; Pot′-compan′ion, a comrade in drinking; Pot′-hang′er, a hook on which to hang a pot; Pot′-hat, a high-crowned felt hat, worn by men; Pot′-head, a stupid person; Pot′herb, any vegetable which is boiled and used as food.—n.pl. Pot′-holes, holes in the beds of rapid streams, made by an eddying current of water, which gives the stones a gyratory motion.—ns. Pot′-hook, a hook hung in a chimney for supporting a pot: a letter shaped like a pot-hook; Pot′-house, an ale-house; Pot′-hunt′er, one who hunts or fishes for profit; Pot′-lid, the cover of a pot; Pot′-liq′uor, a thin broth in which meat has been boiled; Pot′-luck, what may happen to be in the pot for a meal without special preparation; Pot′-man, a pot-companion: a pot-boy; Pot′-met′al, an alloy of copper and lead; Pot′-shop, a small public-house; Pot′-stick, a stick for stirring what is being cooked in a pot; Pot′stone, a massive variety of talc-schist, composed of a finely felted aggregate of talc, mica, and chlorite.—adj. Pot′-val′iant, brave owing to drink.—Potted meats, meats cooked, seasoned, and hermetically sealed in tins or jars.—Go to pot, to go to ruin, originally said of old metal, to go into the melting-pot; Keep the pot boiling, to procure the necessaries of life; Take pot-luck, to accept an invitation to a meal where no preparation for guests has been made. [M. E. pot, from the Celt., as Ir. pota, Gael. poit, W. pot.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. pot

    The paper cylinder forming the head of a signal-rocket and containing the decorations. To diminish the resistance of the air the pot is surmounted by a paper cone.

Rap Dictionary

  1. potnoun

    See marijuana. "Must have been drinking, 'cause this ain't pot" -- Cypress Hill and Sonic Youth (Mary Jane). A kitchen dish used to boil water. It is fabricated in order to withstand high levels of direct heat. Useful in making soup.

Suggested Resources

  1. POT

    What does POT stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the POT acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. POT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pot is ranked #69392 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pot surname appeared 283 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pot.

    51.5% or 146 total occurrences were Asian.
    36.7% or 104 total occurrences were White.
    4.5% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    4.5% or 13 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.4% or 7 total occurrences were Black.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pot' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2620

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pot' in Nouns Frequency: #1416

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Anagrams for pot »

  1. opt

  2. top

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pot in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of pot in a Sentence

  1. Professor Martin Tangney:

    In the production of whisky less than ten percent of what comes out in the distillery is actually the primary product, the bulk of the remainder are these unwanted residues - pot ale and barley. What we can do is combine these two together, create a brand new raw material, apply a different fermentation technology and convert the residual good material in here into high-value products and in particular this - biobutanol, which is an advanced biofuel which is an exact replacement for petrol or diesel.

  2. Go Cubes co-creator Geoffrey Woo:

    Think about it, when you drink from a barista, from a drip pot or from a French press, who knows how much caffeine you’re taking in? you don’t actually know.

  3. Graeme Smith:

    The war continues to gain intensity, even more concerning, the nature of the attacks is becoming more serious: rather than pot-shots at convoys, we're now talking about battles that last for days.

  4. Michael Burgess:

    It’s like accepting the word of Winnie the Pooh that he’s gonna guard the honey pot.

  5. Henk Krol:

    It's an amazing amount of money, now the problem is: how much must there be in the pot to pay everyone the share that he or she deserves?

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