Pot

/pɒt/ · noun

Meaning

A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes)..

Definitions by Sense

1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
2. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
3. (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
4. A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
5. (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
6. (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
7. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
8. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.

Example Sentences

Rowten Pot

After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.

The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French...

No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.

a pension pot

a savings pot

Fabienne: I wish I had a pot. Butch: You were lookin' in the mirror and you wish you had some pot? Fabienne: A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are sexy. Butch: Well you should be happy, 'cause you do. Fabienne: Shut up, Fatso! I don't have a pot! I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did "Lucky Star". It's not the same thing.

England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men.

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Word Forms

• pots
• potting
• potted

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