- pot
- [[t]pɒ̱t[/t]]
♦♦♦pots, potting, potted1) N-COUNT A pot is a deep round container used for cooking stews, soups, and other food.
...metal cooking pots.
N-COUNT: usu N of nA pot of stew, soup, or other food is an amount of it contained in a pot.He was stirring a pot of soup.
2) N-COUNT You can use pot to refer to a teapot or coffee pot.There's tea in the pot.
N-COUNT: usu N of nA pot of tea or coffee is an amount of it contained in a pot.He spilt a pot of coffee.
3) N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft n N A pot is a cylindrical container for jam, paint, or some other thick liquid.Hundreds of jam pots lined her scrubbed shelves.
N-COUNT: usu N of nA pot of jam, paint, or some other thick liquid is an amount of it contained in a pot....a pot of red paint.
4) N-COUNT A pot is the same as a flowerpot.5) VERB If you pot a young plant, or part of a plant, you put it into a container filled with soil, so it can grow there.[V n] Pot the cuttings individually.
[V-ed] ...potted plants.
6) N-UNCOUNT Pot is sometimes used to refer to the drugs cannabis and marijuana. [INFORMAL]Syn:7) QUANT: QUANT of pl-n/n-uncount If you have pots of money, you have a lot of it. [INFORMAL]He must have pots of money.
8) N-SING: the N In a card game, the pot is the money from all the players which the winner of the game will take as a prize.Syn:pool, kitty9) N-SING: the N You can refer to a fund consisting of money from several people as the pot. [mainly AM]I've taken some money from the pot for wrapping paper.
Syn:10) N-COUNT Someone who has a pot has a round, fat stomach which sticks out, either because they eat or drink too much, or because they have had very little to eat for some time. [mainly AM]Syn:pot belly, tummy11) N-COUNT A pot is a deep bowl which a small child uses instead of a toilet.Syn:12) VERB In the games of snooker and billiards, if you pot a ball, you succeed in hitting it into one of the pockets.[V n] He did not pot a ball for the next two frames.
Syn:13) → See also , chamber pot, , coffee pot, , melting pot, plant pot14) PHRASE: V inflects If something goes to pot, it loses all its good qualities because nobody looks after it or works at it. [INFORMAL]The neighbourhood really is going to pot.
Syn:15) PHRASE: PHR after v, PHR n If you take pot luck, you decide to do something even though you do not know what you will get as a result.If you haven't made an appointment, take pot luck and knock on the door...
He scorns the `pot-luck' approach.
English dictionary. 2008.
