POT (potted, potting)

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Irregular inflected forms: potted    , potting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pot mean? 

• POT (noun)
  The noun POT has 9 senses:

1. metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid

2. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

3. the quantity contained in a pot

4. a container in which plants are cultivated

5. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

6. the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)

7. slang for a paunch

8. a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets

9. street names for marijuana

  Familiarity information: POT used as a noun is familiar.

• POT (verb)
  The verb POT has 1 sense:

1. plant in a pot

  Familiarity information: POT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

cooking utensil; cookware (a kitchen utensil made of material that does not melt easily; used for cooking)

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pot"):

coffeepot (tall pot in which coffee is brewed)

urn (a large pot for making coffee or tea)

teapot (pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle)

stockpot (a pot used for preparing soup stock)

saucepot (a cooking pot that has handles on either side and tight fitting lid; used for stewing or boiling)

pottle (a pot that holds 2 quarts)

marmite (a large pot especially one with legs used e.g. for cooking soup)

boiler; kettle (a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid)

Dutch oven (iron or earthenware cooking pot; used for stews)

dixie (a large metal pot (12 gallon camp kettle) for cooking; used in military camps)

caldron; cauldron (a very large pot that is used for boiling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

can; commode; crapper; pot; potty; stool; throne; toilet

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

plumbing fixture (a fixture for the distribution and use of water in a building)

Meronyms (parts of "pot"):

toilet seat (the hinged seat on a toilet)

toilet bowl (the bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pot"):

flushless toilet (a toilet that relies on bacteria to break down waste matter (instead of using water))

flush toilet; lavatory (a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it)

potty chair; potty seat (toilet consisting of a small seat used by young children)

Holonyms ("pot" is a part of...):

bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)

bathroom; can; john; lav; lavatory; privy; toilet (a room or building equipped with one or more toilets)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quantity contained in a pot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

pot; potful

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A container in which plants are cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

flowerpot; pot

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pot"):

planter (a decorative pot for house plants)

Derivation:

pot (plant in a pot)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

batch; deal; flock; good deal; great deal; hatful; heap; lot; mass; mess; mickle; mint; mountain; muckle; passel; peck; pile; plenty; pot; quite a little; raft; sight; slew; spate; stack; tidy sum; wad

Context example:

a wad of money

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pot"):

deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

jackpot; kitty; pot

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

bet; stake; stakes; wager (the money risked on a gamble)

Domain category:

poker; poker game (any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Slang for a paunch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

bay window; corporation; pot; potbelly; tummy

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

belly; paunch (a protruding abdomen)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Sense 8

Meaning:

A resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pot; potentiometer

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

potential divider; voltage divider (resistors connected in series across a voltage source; used to obtain a desired fraction of the voltage)

Sense 9

Meaning:

Street names for marijuana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dope; gage; grass; green goddess; locoweed; Mary Jane; pot; sens; sess; skunk; smoke; weed

Hypernyms ("pot" is a kind of...):

cannabis; ganja; marihuana; marijuana (the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect)

• POT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pot    ... he / she / it pots   
Past simple: potted   
Past participle: potted   
-ing form: potting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant in a pot

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

He potted the palm

Hypernyms (to "pot" is one way to...):

embed; engraft; imbed; implant; plant (fix or set securely or deeply)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pot"):

repot (put in a new, usually larger, pot)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

pot (a container in which plants are cultivated)

 Context examples 

John did not find Meg's beauty diminished, though she beamed at him from behind the familiar coffee pot.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The good advice was followed, and a pot of fat was bought, but they did not know where to put it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He noticed that his cup was empty and started to reach for the pot.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She continued:—"This is what I can give into the hotch-pot."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When he had gathered a heap he built a fire,—a smouldering, smudgy fire,—and put a tin pot of water on to boil.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The great tea-pot was still in my hand.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Then, we had more tasks until tea, which Mr. Mell drank out of a blue teacup, and I out of a tin pot.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His skin was of a rich flower-pot red from sun and wind.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hold that a man has more to fear there from the ink-pot of the one than from the iron of the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So absorbed was he in his thoughts, I remember, that he stumbled over the watering-pot, upset its contents, and deluged both our feet and the garden path.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)