pot

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1. ISO 639-3 language code for Potawatomi.

Noun

1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
2. The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
3. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot. A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot. A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot. A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; a toilet; the lavatory.
   • Shit or get off the pot.
4. A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
5. A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot.
6. A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
7. A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; a toilet; the lavatory.
   • Shit or get off the pot.
8. A crucible: a melting pot.
9. A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
10. A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
11. A perforated cask for draining sugar.
12. An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
13. A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
14. Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
    • Rowten Pot
15. A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
16. Ruin or deterioration.
    • After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.
17. Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
18. An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
19. A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
20. The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; any sum of money being used as an enticement.
    • No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.
21. An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
    • a pension pot
    • a savings pot
22. A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
23. Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
24. Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
25. A plaster cast.
26. Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

Verb

1. To put (something) into a pot.
   • to pot a plant
2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
   • potted meat
3. To package a circuit by encasing it in resin. English Wikipedia has an article on:potting (electronics)Wikipedia
4. To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
5. To be capable of being potted.
   • The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
6. To shoot with a firearm.
7. To take a potshot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
8. To secure; gain; win; bag.
9. To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
10. To tipple; to drink.
11. To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
12. To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
13. To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
14. To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
15. To score (a drop goal).

Noun

1. Marijuana.

Noun

1. A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.

Verb

1. To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.

Noun

1. Clipping of potion.

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