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.
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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.
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3.
A pot is a cylindrical container for jam, paint, or some other thick liquid.
Hundreds of jam pots lined her scrubbed shelves.
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A pot of jam, paint, or some other thick liquid is an amount of it contained in a pot.
...a pot of red paint.
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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 )
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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.
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