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Pot   /pɑt/   Listen
Pot

noun
1.
Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid.
2.
A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination.  Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, potty, stool, throne, toilet.
3.
The quantity contained in a pot.  Synonym: potful.
4.
A container in which plants are cultivated.  Synonym: flowerpot.
5.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "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.
The cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker).  Synonyms: jackpot, kitty.
7.
Slang for a paunch.  Synonyms: bay window, corporation, potbelly, tummy.
8.
A resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets.  Synonym: potentiometer.
9.
Street names for marijuana.  Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed.
verb
(past & past part. potted; pres. part. potting)
1.
Plant in a pot.



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"Pot" Quotes from Famous Books



... instancing by the girl-mother of her own tiny flesh and blood, affected me strangely; they spoke of so tranquil a despair. Meanwhile the husband smilingly made his sack; and the unconscious babe struggled to reach a pot of raspberry jam, friendship's offering, which I had just brought up the den; and in a perspective of centuries I saw their case as ours, death coming in like a tide, and the day already numbered when there should be no more Beretani, and no more ...
— In the South Seas • Robert Louis Stevenson

... existed a difference of opinion among competent judges. There may be some unfortunates for whom they are too "mild": but we hardly reckon as arbiters of taste the people for whom even brandy is too mild unless you empty the cayenne cruet into it. Moreover the "tea-pot pieties" (as a poet-critic who ought to have known better once scornfully called them) make no importunate appearance in the bulk of the correspondence: while as regards the madness this supplies one of the most puzzling and perhaps not ...
— A Letter Book - Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing • George Saintsbury

... advanced. They had ambushes prepared for each of them. If the orders had gone out straight we'd have been cleaned out, that's my opinion. But you see, they all went wrong and the columns advanced along different roads, and poor Gomaldo's plans all went to pot. I believe he had Garcia hanged for deceiving him. You haven't seen the general's servant since ...
— Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby

... imitation of stained glass can be made by any one possessing a little ingenuity, a pair of scissors, a few sheets of colored tissue-paper, and a paste-pot, and the humblest cottage window can be made resplendent as those of a ...
— Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... cabbage-stalk, climbed and climbed, climbed and climbed, climbed right up to the sky, cut a hole in the sky, and crept through. There he sees a mill[381] standing. The mill gives a turn—out come a pie and a cake with a pot of stewed grain ...
— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston


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