pod

Meaning

Noun

1. A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
2. A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
3. (obsolete) A bag; a pouch.
4. A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
5. A group of people who regularly interact.
6. A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
7. A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
8. A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
9. A nicotine cartridge.
10. A lie-flat business or first class seat.
11. A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
12. A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
13. (informal) Clipping of podcast.

Verb

1. To bear or produce pods
2. To remove peas from their case.
3. To put into a pod or to enter a pod.
4. To swell or fill.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɒd/

Etymology

From Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), likely from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). Cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”), Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).