Dictionary Definition
pot
Noun
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
[syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, potty, stool, throne]
3 the quantity contained in a pot [syn: potful]
4 a container in which plants are cultivated
[syn: flowerpot]
5 (often followed by `of') a large number or
amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot
of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost
plenty" [syn: batch,
deal, flock, good deal,
great
deal, hatful,
heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, quite a
little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum,
wad, whole lot,
whole
slew]
8 a resistor with three terminals, the third
being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in
radios and TV sets [syn: potentiometer]
9 street names for marijuana [syn: grass, green
goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane] v :
plant in a pot; "He potted the palm" [also: potting, potted]
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology 1
pott.Noun
- A vessel used for cooking or storing food.
- The money wagered in poker or similar games.
- A round in a poker game.
- A trap for catching lobsters, crabs, or fish.
- slang uncountable marijuana, cannabis.
- An iron hat with a broad brim.
- A glass of beer. Size varies regionally but is normally 10 fl oz (285 ml).
- A potshot
- A protruding belly; a paunch.
- Ruin or deterioration.
- His prospect went to pot.
- In the context of "sports|billiards|snooker|pool": The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket.
- A potentiometer.
Derived terms
- pot ale
- pot boiler
- pot holder
- pot roast
- pot-au-feu
- potable
- potash
- potassium
- potbelly
- potboil
- potboiler
- pothead
- pothole
- potpie
- potpourri
- potshot
- potsherd
- pottage
- potter
- pottery
- potty
- hot pot
- potted plant
- two pot screamer
Translations
vessel
- Arabic: قدر, إناء, طنجرة
- Chinese: 锅
- Crimean Tatar:
- Czech: hrnec
- Dutch: pot
- Finnish: ruukku, pata, kattila
- French: pot, marmite
- German: Topf
- Hungarian: edény, fazék
- Italian: pentola, vaso
- Japanese: 鍋
- Korean: 단지, 독
- Kurdish: قازان, مهنجهڵ
- Portuguese: pote
- Romanian: oală
- Russian: горшок
- Serbian: lonac, šerpa, kotao
- Spanish: olla, marmita
- Swedish: gryta
money
- Finnish: potti
- German: Einsatz
trap
- Finnish: merta
- Korean: 통발
Verb
Translations
to put (something) into a pot
- Finnish: tölkittää
- German: etwas in einen Topf werfen
to preserve
- Finnish: tölkittää
to cause a ball to fall into a pocket
- Finnish: pussittaa
- ttbc German: etwas in einem Topf aufbewahren
Etymology 2
Possibly a shortened form of Mexican potiguaya or potaguaya or potación de guaya literally ‘drink of grief’, supposedly denoting a drink of wine or brandy in which marijuana buds were steeped.Noun
- slang uncountable The drug marijuana.
Translations
marijuana
- Dutch: wiet
- Finnish: ruoho
- German: Gras, Marihuana
- Hungarian: marihuána, fű
- Spanish: marihuana
Basque
Noun
Romanian
Pronunciation
Extensive Definition
Pot may refer to:
Containers
- Flowerpot, a container for growing plants
- Cooking pot
- Chamber pot
- Pot (poker)
- Pot glass, a kind of beer glass
- Pot haircut, looking as though someone put a bowl on the head and cut off all the visible hair
- Fishing pot, containers for trapping crabs
Abbreviations and symbols
- Potentiometer a variable resistor
- Microsoft PowerPoint template, which has the file extension .pot
- The Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, stock symbol: POT
- Pontefract Tanshelf railway station, England; National Rail station code POT
- Pot, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Potinara
- A Plain Old telephone, that is not a digital telephone, used on the Plain Old Telephone Service
Other
- Pottery
- The Prince of Tennis
- Pol Pot, leader of the communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge (13 May 1975 – 7 January 1979)
- Pot, a colloquial term for the drug cannabis (marijuana)
pot in German: Pot
pot in French: Pot
pot in Italian: POT
pot in Dutch: Pot
pot in Norwegian: Pot
pot in Slovak: Pot
pot in Thai: POT
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
DET,
DMT, Dutch oven, LSD, Mary Jane, Old Mug, STP, THC, abdomen, abomasum, acid, adobe, alcohol stove, ante, antidepressant, ataractic, bag, bake, baker, bank, barbecue, barrel, basket, batch, bay window, bays, bed, beerbelly, belly, bet, big, big cheese, big shot, biscuit, bisque, boiler, bomb, boodle, bottle, bowl, box, box up, breadbasket, brick, broadcast, broiler, bud vase, bundle, caldron, camp stove, can, capsule, carton, case, cask, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, chafer, chafing dish, chamber
pot, chaplet, charge, china, civic crown, cock, coffee urn, coffeepot, considerable, cook stove,
corporation,
crate, craw, crock, crockery, crop, crown, cup, deal, detonate, diaphragm, dibble, diethyltryptamine,
dimethyltryptamine,
discharge, disseminate, do up, drill, drop, eject, embonpoint, enamelware, encase, encyst, fell, fire, fire off, firebrick, first stomach,
flower bowl, flowerpot, forest, gage, ganja, garland, gizzard, glass, glaze, gobs, good deal, good sum, grass, great deal, grill, griller, gullet, gun, gun for, gut, hallucinogen, hamper, hash, hashish, hay, heap, heaps, heaps of gold, hemp, hit, honeycomb stomach, honeypot, implant, infrared cooker,
inseminate, jackpot, jar, joint, jug, kava, kettle, kishkes, kitchen boiler,
kitty, large sum, lashings, laurel, laurels, let fly, let off,
load, loads, lot, lots, loving cup, manyplies, marijuana, maw, mescal, mescal bean, mescal
button, mescaline,
mess, midriff, millions, mind-altering drug,
mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, mint, mint of money, mold, morning glory seeds, olla, omasum, oodles, pack, package, packet, palm, palms, pans, parcel, patella, paten, paunch, peck, pelt, pepper, percolator, peyote, pick off, pile, piles, pistol, plant, plug, pod, pool, porcelain, potbelly, potful, potgut, potshoot, potshot, pottery, potty, power of money, pretty
penny, prime, psalterium, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic
energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic,
pusgut, put in, put up,
quite a little, raft,
rafts, reefer, reforest, refractory, rennet bag,
reset, reticulum, retimber, riddle, roach, roaster, roll, rumen, sack, samovar, scads, scatter seed, second
stomach, seed, seed down,
seminate, set, shape, shoot, shoot at, shoot down,
shy, sideswipe, sight, slew, slews, snipe, sow, sow broadcast, spare tire,
spate, spittoon, stack, stacks, stake, stakes, stick, stomach, stove, strike, swagbelly, take a potshot,
tank, tea, tea urn, teakettle, teapot, third stomach, thousands, throw, tidy sum, tiger, tile, tiling, tin, toaster, torpedo, tranquilizer, transplant, trophy, tum-tum, tummy, turn a pot, underbelly, urn, vase, ventripotence, wad, wads, wager, water closet, weed, whole slew, wreath