pot
The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food…A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).: The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
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Examples
438 sentencesMeaning
24 sensesA flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
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горшо́кgoršók, ба́нкаbánka, кастрю́ляkastrjúlja
го́рщикhórščyk, кастру́ляkastrúlja, ро́ндельróndelʹ
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
Shit or get off the pot.
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.
Einsatz
More meanings 21
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
(Maine)A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot.
Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
Rowten Pot
An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
a pension pot
a savings pot
A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
A crucible: a melting pot.
A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
Origin
From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Possibly a shortened form of Mexican Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya (“cannabis leaves”), or potación de guaya (literally “drink of grief”), supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped, from pota + de + guaya (see guayar (“to lament”)).
Clipping of potentiometer.
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Forms
plural: pots| Singular | pot |
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uncountable
Synonyms
126 synonyms- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination:toiletcancommodepottystoolthrone
- the quantity contained in a pot:potful
- a container in which plants are cultivated:flowerpot
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent:batchdealflockgood dealgreat dealhatfulheaplot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker):jackpotkitty
- slang for a paunch:potbellybay windowcorporationtummy
Word family
180 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
7 patterns- pot of coffee
- in the pot
- made a pot
- a pot of
- the coffee pot
- coffee pot
- flower pot
See also
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