pot
To put into a potTo put (something) into a pot.
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Meaning
16 sensesTo put (something) into a pot.
to pot a plant
etwas in einen Topf werfen
plant in a pot
To preserve by bottling or canning.
potted meat
To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
(transitive)To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
lochen
(intransitive)To be capable of being potted.
The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
(slang, transitive)To shoot with a firearm.
(dated, intransitive, slang)To take a potshot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
(colloquial, transitive)To secure; gain; win; bag.
(UK)To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
(transitive)To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
(UK, transitive)To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
(East Midlands)To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
Examples
448 sentencesTom made a pot of coffee.
Том заварив чайник з кавою. — deniko
I cook soup in a big pot.
Я готую суп у великій кастрюлі. — deniko
ruСуп я варю в большой кастрюле. — Karok
deIch koche in einem großen Topf Suppe. — xtofu80
I'll make another pot of coffee.
I'll make a pot of coffee.
Tom reached for the coffee pot.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 2
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”).
Clipping of potentiometer.
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Forms
pots, potting, potted, pottedPhrasal verbs
3 phrasal verbsWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
7 patterns- pot of coffee
- in the pot
- made a pot
- a pot of
- the coffee pot
- coffee pot
- flower pot
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.