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pot

[pot]

noun

a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.

such a container with its contents: a pot of stew.

the amount contained in or held by a pot; potful.

a flowerpot.

a container of liquor or other drink: a pot of ale.

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liquor or other drink.

a cagelike vessel for trapping fish, lobsters, eels, etc., typically made of wood, wicker, or wire. Compare lobster pot.

a chamber pot.

Metallurgy.

a vessel for melting metal; melting pot.

an electrolytic cell for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.

10.

British.

chimney pot.

Dialect. a basket or box used for carrying provisions or the like; a pannier.

11.

Slang. a large sum of money.

12.

all the money bet at a single time; pool.

13.

British Slang. (in horse racing) the favorite.

14.

potshot.

15.

a liquid measure, usually equal to a pint or quart.

16.

Armor.

an open, broad-brimmed helmet of the 17th century.

any open helmet.

17.

Slang. a potbelly.

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verb (used with object)

18.

to put into a pot.

19.

to preserve (food) in a pot.

20.

to cook in a pot.

21.

to transplant into a pot: We must pot the petunias.

22.

Hunting.

to shoot (game birds) on the ground or water, or (game animals) at rest, instead of in flight or running: He can't even pot a sitting duck.

to shoot for food, not for sport.

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23.

Informal. to capture, secure, or win.

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verb (used without object)

24.

Informal. to take a potshot; shoot.

Idioms

25.

go to pot, to become ruined; deteriorate: With no one to care for it, the lovely old garden went to pot.

26.

sweeten the pot. sweeten (def. 8).

Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English pott (see potter¹); cognate with Dutch, Low German pot (perhaps > French pot)

Related forms

pot·like, adjective

Example Sentences

Put the butter in a large, deep pot over medium-high heat.

Correct way: lightly flour cube steaks and brown in a frying pan before placing them in the bottom of the crock pot.

Not enough coffee drinkers to warrant a coffee pot at work.

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Put the butter in a large, deep pot over medium-high heat.

Correct way: lightly flour cube steaks and brown in a frying pan before placing them in the bottom of the crock pot.

Not enough coffee drinkers to warrant a coffee pot at work.

Determine the depth of your solar cooker by setting your largest pot in the smaller box.

Pot is one of those drugs that appears to maintain a fairly good rep, despite its growing bad rep.

Every cook, be it an elite chef or an aspiring foodie, has a favorite pot.

Using this method, it's possible to harvest four crops of cilantro from a single pot.

If you really want to get fancy on your camping trips, take a large-sized moka pot and stick that on your camping stove.

The following spring when the pot is moved, the bottom may fall away as if it had been sliced off.

Duke professors took out an ad in a local newspaper in support of the pot bangers and poster wielders.

The cloth kept the paddles from sticking to the wet clay, and left behind a decorative imprint when the pot was fired.

Although nowhere near as hideous as alcohol, pot hangovers are real.

Just before the water boils, the pot is set aside and its contents are allowed to settle.

If you have a sunny space for a pot on your patio or deck, you have enough room to grow summer vegetables.

Ideally, patients will be able to grow their own pot without being penalized.

Kindt said, is not the pot of gold supporters often suggest it is.

The idea was that freshmen could manage to mix together on their own and help form the college's own little melting pot.

Sauté the onion in the butter in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat until translucent.

He has sound bites that take pot shots at various bits of evidence or misinterpretations of evidence.

Once scooped from the sand, rinse the coquinas and place them in a pot with enough water to cover.

If you yearn for the beach but live miles inland, you can re-create the look easily in a pot.

Removable cooking pot is non-stick and dishwasher cordial.

Divide the mussels, add them to each pot and cook for another five minutes.

But a lick of paint and the right pot will turn it into an original plant stand.

Sorry to poo in your pudding but there is quite a bit of evidence that pot use damages the brain rather heavily.

If you're hankering for stew, you can always throw a few cubes of pumpkin into the pot.

Keep it small enough for a pot by pruning the foliage and roots every four to five years.

Too much oil in the pot and it will spill out, leaving a pool of boiling oil and possible ignition.

Melt chocolate in a pot or a microwave and have students dip marshmallows into the chocolate.

Mouginis-Mark nestled a cooking pot filled with cool water into a shallow trench outside his tent.

Bring a large pot of salted water or stock to a boil.

Center the cutout circle over each pot and trace its outline.

Boil some water in another pot and boil dried noodles until they are al dente.

Pot shot plays on the market mean zilch, thus, exclude them.

It can boil a pot of water but it lost the ability to simmer ages ago.

Arkansas deploys facilities built to detect chemical and biological weapons to keep tabs on ever-evolving synthetic pot products.

And at one point the boat's propeller became fouled in a lobster pot rope.

Save energy by putting a lid on the pot whenever you boil water.

Strain them and place them in the pot where the corn kernels are cooking.

First off, this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

The man sits with me and tears a piece of bread from a white loaf and dunks it into the pot to demonstrate.

Place chicken halves in a five- to six-quart pot along with the gizzard.

Or, put another way, you need a much larger capital pot to buy a given level of income.

Center the large pot atop the steel mesh and slide it down the tubing until it sits firmly on the mesh.

Too little oil in the pot and part of the turkey will be above the oil level and not cook.

Originally this heavy, capacious pot with a broad depression in its lid was used to surround braised meat with heat.

In this game, one player divides a pot of money between himself and another.

Measure the seat frame and find a pot to fit in the opening.

If it boils and you're feeling adventurous, see how hot a pot of oil gets.

Work out some sort of double boiler, two-pot contraption and fill the big pot with water, heat until boiling.

Few people speak unabashedly anymore about the ideal of the melting pot.

In return, the effectiveness of debt relief and the pot of useful foreign aid would get a much-needed boost.

Cover pot with lid and place the pot into the preheated oven.

The advice that a watched pot won't boil may ring true in your kitchen, but in the quantum realm, anything goes.

And with pot taking over all of the financial categories, this was an obvious case of disruption.

And even when they make hot tea, they put leaves into a kyusu or pot with a strainer.

It has also proved a honey pot for hackers and other criminals.

Put crayons of the same color in a small saucepan or enamel cooking pot.

The pot can be beautified with a ribbon and a bun made from some nice recycled material.

Remove soil clump from pot and break apart the several individual.

The tactics of today's insurgent bombmakers are the product of a long-simmering melting pot of global terrorism.

Leave the rest in the pot or whatnot covered while the table is set.

Risk payments, which are normally part of a supplier's quote, are instead put in a central pot.

Their long stems spill over pot edges and tumble down the sides, creating a.

Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil on a stove or illegal dorm-room hot pot.

Compare the probability of winning a given poker hand to the probability of winning a given lottery pot.

These bankers will turn up again, and make the next pot of gold.

While borscht can be served cold in the summer, this recipe delivers a steaming pot of.

Participants usually dance on a board suspended over a hole or buried pot to produce resonance.

While sitting on your couch, you remember you need to bake a pot roast.

The microwave may have had to heat up a heavy ceramic mug vs a small thin pot on the stove.

Beth says that if the preparation goes really wrong, the burned caramel sticks to the pot and you have to throw the pot away.

Fill basket with dim sum first, then set it in the pot.

Anyone who has had my mother's rib-sticking hot pot recipe will know that it's a lot more than an appetizer.

The last thing you need is little junior bouncing around between your feet while you're holding a pot of scalding water.

For a finished look, choose a pot that echoes the succulents' colors.

Anyone who has left the rice in cooking pot until the next day knows it turns to an other-worldly concrete over night.

Attach a gift card to the pot or basket, explaining how to care for the plants.

Put all of the ingredients in a pot and stir constantly over medium heat.

At the center, a large glazed pot filled with perennials creates a focal point.

Indonesia's ethnic, religious, and linguistic melting pot has produced a fittingly wide range of faiths and religious practices.

Tell them you try pot once, you freaked out and couldn't deal with doing it again.

Large heavy stainless-steel soup pot for heating the milk.

After bringing the food to a boiling point on the stove, the cooking pot can be placed inside the haybox.

Partially cover the hole in bottom of pot with a pottery shard to prevent soil from spilling out.

The bottom of the pot will now be considered the top.

Beyond their hardiness range, pot up divisions and keep them over the winter as houseplants.

In a large skillet, sauté onion, and transfer to a large pot over low flame.

Soon the pot was making its way around the room, mourners slurping it down by the cupful.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun Slang.

marijuana.

Origin:
1935–40, Americanism; said to be a shortening of Mexican Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya, apparently contraction of potación de guaya wine or brandy in which marijuana buds have been steeped (literally, drink of grief)

noun Scot. and North England.

a deep hole; pit.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English; perhaps identical with pot¹

Electricity.

potential.

potentiometer.

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World English Dictionary

pot¹ (pɒt)

—n
1.	a container made of earthenware, glass, or similar material; usually round and deep, often having a handle and lid, used for cooking and other domestic purposes
2.	flowerpot short for teapot
3.	the amount that a pot will hold; potful
4.	a chamber pot, esp a small one designed for a baby or toddler
5.	a handmade piece of pottery
6.	a large mug or tankard, as for beer
7.	(Austral) any of various measures used for serving beer
8.	informal a cup or trophy, esp of silver, awarded as a prize in a competition
9.	the money or stakes in the pool in gambling games, esp poker
10.	informal (often plural) a large amount, esp of money
11.	a wicker trap for catching fish, esp crustaceans: a lobster pot
12.	billiards, snooker a shot by which a ball is pocketed
13.	chiefly (Brit) short for chimneypot
14.	informal (US) a joint fund created by a group of individuals or enterprises and drawn upon by them for specified purposes
15.	hunting See pot shot
16.	See potbelly
17.	go to pot to go to ruin; deteriorate

—vb , pots, potting, potted
18.	to set (a plant) in a flowerpot to grow
19.	to put or preserve (goods, meat, etc) in a pot
20.	to cook (food) in a pot
21.	to shoot (game) for food rather than for sport
22.	to shoot (game birds or animals) while they are on the ground or immobile rather than flying or running
23.	(also intr) to shoot casually or without careful aim at (an animal, etc)
24.	to sit (a baby or toddler) on a chamber pot
25.	(also intr) to shape clay as a potter
26.	billiards, snooker to pocket (a ball)
27.	informal to capture or win; secure

[Late Old English pott, from Medieval Latin pottus (unattested), perhaps from Latin pōtus a drink; compare Middle Low German pot, Old Norse pottr]

pot² (pɒt)

—n
	a. dialect (Scot), (Northern English) a deep hole or pothole
	b. (capital when part of a name): Pen-y-Ghent Pot

[C14: perhaps identical with pot¹ but possibly of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish dialect putt water hole, pit]

pot³ (pɒt)

—n
	slang cannabis used as a drug in any form, such as leaves (marijuana or hemp) or resin (hashish)

[C20: perhaps shortened from Mexican Indian potiguaya]

pot⁴ (pɒt)

—n
	informal short for potentiometer

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Word Origin & History

pot

"vessel," from late O.E. pott and O.Fr. pot, both from a general Low Gmc. and Romanic word from V.L. *pottus, of uncertain origin, said by OED to be unconnected to L.L. potus "drinking cup" (c.600). Celtic forms are said to be borrowed from Eng. and French. Slang meaning "large sum of money staked on

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a bet" is attested from 1823. Potbellied is first attested 1657; potholder is from 1928. Pot roast is from 1881; pot-pie is 1823, Amer.Eng.; phrase go to pot (16c.) suggests cooking. Potted in the fig. sense of "put into a short, condensed form" is attested from 1866. In phrases, the pot calls the kettle black-arse is from c.1700; shit or get off the pot is traced by Partridge to Canadian armed forces in World War II.

pot

"marijuana," 1938, probably a shortened form of Mexican Sp. potiguaya "marijuana leaves."

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Slang Dictionary

pot definition

n.
a toilet. (Usually with the.) : Jimmy's on the pot, Mommy.
n.
a drinking vessel. (Old but still heard.) : How about a pot of beer?
in.
to drink heavily; to use a pot(sense 2) to excess. : Let's sit here and pot for a while.
n.
a vessel, hat, basket, etc., used to collect or receive contributions. : Please pass the pot.
n.
a sum of money collected; a pool of money. : How large is the pot this month?
n.
cannabis; marijuana. (Originally drugs, now widely known.) : The cops found pot growing next to city hall.

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Idioms & Phrases

pot

In addition to the idiom beginning with pot, also see fish or cut bait (shit or get off the pot); go to pot; hit the jackpot; sweeten the kitty (pot); take potluck; tempest in a teapot; watched pot never boils.