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Definition of 'pot'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) pot
a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usu. round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.

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

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

4.  pot
liquor or other drink.

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

6.  pot
chamber pot.

7.  pot
a large sum of money.

8.  pot
all the money bet at a single time; pool.

9. (v.t.) pot
to put or transplant into a pot.

10.  pot
to preserve (food) in a pot.

11.  pot
to cook in a pot.

12.  pot
to shoot (game birds) on the ground or water, or (game animals) at rest, instead of in flight or running.

13.  pot
to shoot for food, not for sport.

Definition of 'pot'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) pot
metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid

2. (noun) toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

3. (noun) pot, potful
the quantity contained in a pot

4. (noun) pot, flowerpot
a container in which plants are cultivated

5. (noun) 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, wad
(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. (noun) pot, jackpot, kitty
the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)

7. (noun) pot, potbelly, bay window, corporation, tummy
slang for a paunch

8. (noun) potentiometer, pot
a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets

9. (verb) pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane
street names for marijuana

10. (verb) pot
plant in a pot
"He potted the palm"

Definition of 'pot'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) pot
a round container for cooking
a pot of boiling water; pots and pans

2.  pot
a container used for food or drink, or the amount the container will hold
a coffee/tea pot; two pots of steaming hot coffee

3.  pot
a container for growing plants in
Put the soil in the pot.

4.  pot
marijuana
She doesn't smoke pot.

Definition of 'pot'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) pot
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. (noun) pot
an earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug

3. (noun) pot
the quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale

4. (noun) pot
a metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot

5. (noun) pot
a crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot

6. (noun) pot
a wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc

7. (noun) pot
a perforated cask for draining sugar

8. (noun) pot
a size of paper. See Pott

9. (verb) pot
to place or inclose in pots

10. (verb) pot
to preserve seasoned in pots

11. (verb) pot
to set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs

12. (verb) pot
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. (verb) pot
to pocket

14. (verb) pot
to tipple; to drink

Translation of 'pot'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: any one of many kinds of deep container used in cooking, for holding food, liquids etc or for growing plants a cooking-pot; a plant-pot; a jam-pot; The waiter brought her a pot of tea.
Afrikaans: pot	Arabic: وعاء، إبْريق	Bulgarian: гърне
Brazilian: pote	Czech: hrnec, květináč	German: der Topf
Danish: gryde; -gryde; potte; -po	Greek: βάζο, γλάστρα	Spanish: pote, cacerola, puchero;
Estonian: pott, kruus	Farsi: دیگ؛ گلدان	Finnish: purkki, ruukku, kannu
French: pot	Hebrew: סִיר, עָצִיץ	Hindi: बरतन
Croatian: lonac, vrč	Indonesian: panci	Icelandic: pottur, ketill
Italian: pentola; vaso	Japanese: つぼ	Korean: 단지
Lithuanian: puodas, puodelis, indelis	Latvian: katls; pods; kanna	Malay: periuk
Dutch: pot	Norwegian: potte, gryte, krukke	Polish: garnek, donica, dzbanek
Persian: دیگ؛ گلدان	Pashto: ديګ، ګلدان	Portuguese: pote
Romanian: vas; borcan; cană	Russian: горшок; кастрюля; чайник	Slovak: hrniec; kvetináč; kanvica
Slovenian: lonec	Serbian: lonac	Swedish: gryta, kruka, burk, pyts,
Thai: หม้อ	Turkish: kap	Taiwanese: 壺，罐
Ukrainian: горщик; чайник	Urdu: برتن	Vietnamese: ấm; bình
Chinese: 壶，罐
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