pot

Meaning

Noun

1. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
2. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
3. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
4. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
5. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
6. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
7. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
8. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
9. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
10. (obsolete) Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
11. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
12. Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
13. A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
14. (slang) Ruin or deterioration.
15. Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
16. An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
17. A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
18. 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.
19. An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
20. (slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
21. (slang) Clipping of potbelly: a pot-shaped belly, a paunch.
22. (slang) Clipping of potshot: a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot.
23. A plaster cast.
24. Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.

Verb

1. To put (something) into a pot.
2. To preserve by bottling or canning.
3. To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
4. To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
5. To be capable of being potted.
6. To shoot with a firearm.
7. To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
8. (colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
9. To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
10. (obsolete) 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).

Verb

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɒt/

Etymology

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”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

Sentences

You cannot brew tea in a cold pot .

As long as there is water in a cooking pot , the temperature cannot rise above a hundred degrees Celsius .