POT


Meaning of POT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pɒt ]

( pots, potting, potted)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

A pot is a deep round container used for cooking stews, soups, and other food.

...metal cooking pots.

N-COUNT

A pot of stew, soup, or other food is an amount of it contained in a pot.

He was stirring a pot of soup.

N-COUNT : usu N of n

2.

You can use pot to refer to a teapot or coffee pot.

There’s tea in the pot.

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A pot of tea or coffee is an amount of it contained in a pot.

He spilt a pot of coffee.

N-COUNT : usu N of n

3.

A pot is a cylindrical container for jam, paint, or some other thick liquid.

Hundreds of jam pots lined her scrubbed shelves.

N-COUNT : usu with supp , oft n N

A pot of jam, paint, or some other thick liquid is an amount of it contained in a pot.

...a pot of red paint.

N-COUNT : usu N of n

4.

A pot is the same as a flowerpot .

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5.

If you pot a young plant, or part of a plant, you put it into a container filled with soil, so it can grow there.

Pot the cuttings individually.

...potted plants.

VERB : V n , V-ed

6.

Pot is sometimes used to refer to the drugs cannabis and marijuana. ( INFORMAL )

N-UNCOUNT

7.

In the games of snooker and billiards, if you pot a ball, you succeed in hitting it into one of the pockets.

He did not pot a ball for the next two frames.

= pocket

VERB : V n

8.

see also potted , chamber pot , chimney pot , coffee pot , lobster pot , melting pot , plant pot

9.

If you take pot luck , you decide to do something even though you do not know what you will get as a result.

If you haven’t made an appointment, take pot luck and knock on the door...

He scorns the ‘pot-luck’ approach.

PHRASE : PHR after v , PHR n

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