I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a can/tin/pot of paint
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He had spilt a can of paint on the floor.
a coffee pot
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She refilled the coffee pot.
a flower pot
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The terrace was covered in flower pots.
a pot of coffee
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Shall I make a pot of coffee?
a pot of tea
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Shall I make a pot of tea?
a potted/pot plant British English (= a plant that is grown in a container )
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He leaves his house key under the potted plant on the porch.
a potted/pot plant British English (= a plant that is grown in a container )
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He leaves his house key under the potted plant on the porch.
chamber pot
chimney pot
coffee pot
cooking pot/utensils/equipment etc
melting pot
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New York has always been a great melting pot.
pepper pot
pot luck
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We hadn’t booked a hotel so we had to take pot luck.
pot pie
pot plant
pot roast
pot shot
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The boy took a pot shot at a pigeon with his air gun.
potting shed
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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For instance, Mr Culboon and his wife both had big old floppy pot bellies.
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The perfect both-ways hand in a high-low game, with a big pot building.
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It was an ornate old lobby with great marble supporting columns and big pots of palms standing around.
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Using the biggest pot you have simply plunge it into lots of boiling salted water.
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Their torsos were big pots , their legs and arms were made out of pots.
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We had dried fruit and salted meat, and big pots to keep water in.
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The result, in theory, is a bigger pot of money for all of them to dip into.
hot
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The Street had more hot plots than hot-pots.
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Hippie dips, or hot pots , are circles of rocks built around natural hot springs.
huge
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There were Moorish arches everywhere and huge earthenware pots filled with whispery green ferns and bright geraniums and spiky yuccas.
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Beautiful huge handmade ceramic pots add to the festive decor.
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They are tucking into buttered scones and a huge pot of tea.
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The most important of these are on huge pots , designed not for use but to stand on graves.
large
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Those people are not exploiting a loophole or grabbing at a large pot of gold.
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In a large pot , bring 4 cups water to boil.
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In the summer it is crammed full, with pots hanging from the roof, and larger pots standing on the ground.
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But you can also use any covered large pot that will hold the fish on a plate.
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The wafers finished, a large pot of tea arrived with a plate of fruit cake slices.
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In a large , heavy-bottomed pot , heat oil and saute carcasses until browned.
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This meant bringing water in large water pots from the river two miles away.
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Put the peel in a large pot of water and boil it until the peel becomes tender.
little
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He ate it standing up by the sink, and deliberately left the little pot on the marble work surface.
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Yoyo suggested, thinking it would be nice to have a little pot to smoke when things on the Island got dull.
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They came to life and leapt out of their hiding places in little pots .
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Babyboomers may well have smoked a little pot in college.
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It also comes in handy little pots , so you don't have to waste half of it.
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Fach little pot is controlled by the neighborhood.
melting
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She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer's high standards and would go back into the melting pot .
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The remaining bare shell is then cut up and sent off to its grave in the industry's melting pot .
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But again they are an ancient group with ancestors back in the Carboniferous forest, a melting pot for plant evolution.
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Magic and medicine were often in the same melting pot .
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The Copperbelt has been a political melting pot for years.
small
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There were sandwiches and meat on sticks, fruit and small pots of a strange looking white substance.
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On her head was placed a small pot .
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When there are plenty of roots, transfer the cutting to a small pot of compost.
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What did some one look like squatting awkwardly on a small chamber pot .
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For small early beets, sow small pots with 2-3 capsules and plant out seedling clusters unthinned.
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The little girls had their own pieces of play embroidery and carried small brass pots on their heads.
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Expect all pads, activated by small four-pot calipers, to run hot.
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For this reason, potted meats and fish are essentially delicacies to be packed into small pots.
■ NOUN
chamber
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Maori artefacts, washing machines, gramophones, even chamber pots of every size shape and colour.
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That chamber pot , you see, somehow reminds me of the brains on the floor.
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There would be all sorts of things rattling down on you - railings and chamber pots and lavatory pots.
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What did some one look like squatting awkwardly on a small chamber pot .
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A Safe Place On the day when there was a full chamber pot under the breakfast table I decided to leave.
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There was no running water in the Gandhi home; each room had a chamber pot .
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The fancy bowls, water jugs and chamber pots , now so beloved of antique dealers, were in every bedroom.
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Younger Brother... where is the chamber pot ?
chimney
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The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames.
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The mortar securing the chimney pot would have to be replaced, along with the pot.
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Two marble top wash-stands made £235; a pair Victorian chimney pots , £110 and an oak and marble sideboard, £300.
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Features include two old chimney pots and a sundial.
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When he left, she gave him two chimney pots , which had previously been on her house.
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But before any type of chimney pot is fitted, check the condition of the flue.
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Starlings, blundering among the chimney pots , precipitate small avalanches over their tails.
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Lines of tiles shimmered in the slivers of moonlight. Chimney pots stood out in black profile like squat, ebony gargoyles.
clay
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In the flat bottom of his canoe a fire smoulders under a clay pot full of red palm oil.
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Yet this nondescript clay pot endures.
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As she carried the clay pots , six at a time, from the greenhouse, a light wind scuttled her skirt.
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Pour over mixture in clay pot .
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In a new departure, Change, somewhat forlorn rows of clay pots confront enlarged versions of coins of the Ottoman Empire.
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More clay pots can hold geraniums or other summer flowers that add color to a patio or back yard.
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Put the rice in a clay pot or a medium-sized pot.
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Of primary importance were the clay pots , so much better suited as containers than the skins and baskets employed by hunters.
coffee
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Certes, my lord, I have the gelt to replace yon coffee pot .
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He got up stiffly, finding a steaming coffee pot beside his four-poster.
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Glass with coffee pots and metal and found magazine pictures and glass with just plain glass.
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A woman batters her husband to death with a coffee pot which she for ever after keeps in her shopping bag.
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Flight attendants have complained that everything in aircraft cabins, including coffee pots , are secured except small children.
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Micheline Vandepoel is a treat to watch as Rosa, the coffee pot lady.
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Pitchers were set out for milk and the large coffee pot was bubbling on the stove.
cooking
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A cooking pot hung on a tripod though the logs beneath were now blackened cinders.
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Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire.
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He dug his long nails into them and stumbled to the cooking pot , almost running.
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This is an adaptation to survive predation from the many animals that hunt them - not least man for the cooking pot !
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But clothes had to be bought, and medicines, and cooking pots and kerosene for the hurricane lamps.
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There were some cooking pots , and a large bowl half full of water.
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A happier fate than ending up in the cooking pot at Berkeley Castle.
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The first thing he saw through a gap between the huts was a cooking pot , a grey bulge in the dimness.
flower
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Others prefer a solid object, such as a filter tube, tank wall, or even a rock or flower pot .
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Lee was poking about, knocking dusty packets of seeds off the shelf and moving flower pots .
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Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots .
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Round the base are peculiar attached columns with upside-down flower pots in stone on top.
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Cover them with a bucket or large flower pot , or place a dinner plate on a crown of foliage.
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Stick the flower pot centrally to card, as with the mug.
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Elsie provided a copper ashtray the size of a flower pot .
luck
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Excepting share a yacht or pot luck boats, those who wish to use them carry them.
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Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.
paint
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I put some plants into old paint pots and hung them from the joists in the veranda roof.
pepper
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And after a long moment he reached across and replaced the pepper pot .
pint
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For example, how do I get a quart of soup into a pint pot ?
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Yet, ironically, car production today is still being crammed into a pint pot .
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So you was always greeted with a drink out of this pint pot .
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For most gardeners, a garden is like a pint pot - you can not get a quart into it.
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Next to him, a hard-looking white youth stared gloomily into an almost-empty pint pot .
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His enormous arm went over Rory's head, the empty pint pot hanging in the smoke above the counter.
plant
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Decor is slate rocks, bogwood, pebbles, sewer pipe and plant pots .
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Plenty of owners complain about their cats using plant pots as litter boxes.
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Some one had been making clay ashtrays and abstract plant pots .
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Go to the plant pot and spray it, then jump off the ledge.
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Leap on to the ledge and then the door, and finally the plant pot .
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Use the plant pot . 47.
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Then leap on to the window ledge of Toys N Stuff, then the door and spray the plant pot .
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Go back to the bin and bounce to the right, spraying the plant pot on the way.
roast
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I could still make an excellent chicken and barley pot roast .
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I really like old-fashioned pot roast and gorgeous chunks of beef in thick stews.
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Tony seemed amused as he took a bite of pot roast and scanned the room.
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For dinner, Aunt Mary made pot roast , steamed asparagus, wild rice, and, for dessert, apple pie.
yoghurt
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The children soon got the idea and sorted things of similar size and shape, e.g. egg boxes and yoghurt pots .
■ VERB
add
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Return the veal shanks to the pot and add enough of the stock to cover. 4.
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As the year continues pot plants add colour and garden furniture will transform the paved area.
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Beautiful huge handmade ceramic pots add to the festive decor.
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Small fragments of pot are also added-known as grog.
boil
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Bring a pot of water to a boil and immerse Brussels sprouts in boiling water.
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I thought about boiling a pot of water and waking him with that.
bring
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No additional scandal was required to bring the pot to a boil. ` I have nothing to say.
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Dad brought the pot of tea in and sat down.
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But bring on a pot of mint or a furry pumpkin leaf, and watch them rave.
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You may bring me a pot of tea at four o'clock.
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I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea, and when she had gone, inspected the room further.
buy
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She'd bought a pot of raspberry jam that had turned out to be bad.
carry
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As she carried the clay pots , six at a time, from the greenhouse, a light wind scuttled her skirt.
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Cynthia arrived, wearing a pair of blue oven mitts and carrying a large stew pot .
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He carried the pot and three mugs through to the front room.
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He and Kasturbai, and sometimes the older boys, carried out the pots .
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The little girls had their own pieces of play embroidery and carried small brass pots on their heads.
cook
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A friend of his father said he could get Isaac a job making cooking pots in Ivory Coast.
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Without running water, women wash their cooking pots in the street.
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While the meat barbecued and the cooking pots steamed, the captain explained to me the use of a large earthenware jar.
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Too big for a cooking pot , too small for a bath, Mrs Kim-Soon decided.
cover
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At this stage you can add a glass of white wine if you have it to spare. Cover the pot .
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But you can also use any covered large pot that will hold the fish on a plate.
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When completely cold, cover the pot with foil or greaseproof paper.
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Barely cover the peeled potatoes with cold water, cover the pot , then turn the heat to high.
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Add 10 cups cold water, or enough to cover chicken. Cover pot , and bring to a boil.
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Remove foil covering from pot and place plant on a gravel-filled saucer to allow adequate drainage.
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Add rabbit pieces. Cover pot and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.
fill
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Would you mind filling the pot , Maurice?
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Iron gates open to a courtyard filled with pots of geraniums and ivy tucked next to rusted bistro tables and chairs.
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I accept that there have always been some problems, but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow.
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Rabari women were at the well, five or six of them, filling their pots .
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Keep warm. Fill a large pot with water and bring to a rapid boil.
fire
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The second firing occurs after the pot has been allowed to cool down and the glaze is applied.
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It's like firing a pot .
grow
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Parsley seedlings can be grown in terracotta pots and placed on a patio, or they can be planted outside.
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You could grow yours in a pot , but you will need to repot to a larger container as the shrub matures.
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Daffodils can also be grown in tubs or pots for earlier blooming.
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What a contrast to the beautiful gladioli grown by Carole in pots .
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They can be planted out or left to grow in the pot , but will soon need re-potting.
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They're for growing in pots .
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As bulbs grow in pots , the amount of water needed varies according to the growth of the flowers.
keep
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I accept that there have always been some problems, but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow.
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For Franco, the key to survival lay in keeping the pot simmering, but never allowing it to boil over.
make
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Sarah had made a pot of tea and left them together in the overcrowded room.
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He undressed and put on his pajamas and robe and made a pot of Darjeeling.
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She put the card down, and pondered as she made a pot of tea.
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In her apartment she made a pot of herbal tea and filled two cups.
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Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
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While the potatoes were frying she buttered the bread and made a pot of tea.
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After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other.
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For dinner, Aunt Mary made pot roast, steamed asparagus, wild rice, and, for dessert, apple pie.
melt
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The two have worked together to produce a booming Sunbelt and a brisk new stirring of the ethnic melting pot .
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The melting pot is attracting foreigners.
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We are, as they say up north, a melting pot .
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With two exceptions, Mr Gore won every melting-pot state.
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The two Celts hit it off immediately and their melting pot of country and house was first put on to stew.
place
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Top: These roses have been placed in a pot of water prior to being pressed gradually as the petals open.
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The scientists injected the fungus into young pine trees, which were then placed in pots .
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The lobster slumped instantly, to all appearances dead, and being limp was easier to place in the pot .
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On her head was placed a small pot .
put
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Paige lay back, watching him mooch about, putting a pot over the fire and ranging their clothes to dry.
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The drovers made a fire and put on a pot of coffee and began frying up pancakes and slabs of pork.
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Fred was in the kitchen tidying up and putting the freshly washed pots and pans in their proper places.
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We stoke the coals, put on a pot of potatoes, and slap five pork chops on to the grill.
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Emil told me to collect the champagne glasses, pour the water and put a pot of breadsticks on each table.
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Yes, I awakened Ti Boy and had him put on a pot .
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Add all other ingredients and boil for 30 mins. Put marmalade into warm pots and cover at once.
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She poured the burned coffee she had been drinking into the sink and put on a fresh pot .
serve
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The waterside cafe serves everything from a pot of tea to a full range of appetising snacks and meals.
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Remove pot from oven and serve right from the pot either warm or at room temperature.
set
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She set about making a pot of tea.
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Simply place them into a steamer or colander and set over a pot of boiling water for about one minute.
smoke
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Jessica said soothingly, staring at the smoking pot , at the same time pushing herself to her feet.
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We apparently had surprised them because there were still smoking pots with food in them.
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Now at 13, he was smoking pot and planning to pierce his ear, eyebrow and lip.
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Babyboomers may well have smoked a little pot in college.
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There are languorous afternoons and evenings swimming and smoking pot .
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I mean, we were smoking pot at twelve and thirteen, smoking with Tunner.
stand
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Press one or two pips into each pot . Stand the pot in a saucer and keep the compost moist.
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Also stand the pot in a tray of damp pebbles, too.
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Regular spraying with this soot solution kept leaf miners off chrysanthemums standing outside in pots .
stir
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He could see a few of the other scullions nearby. standing on their stools stirring pots , wiping stoves, polishing stove-fronts.
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Over another grill a young woman stirs a pot of soup with a sweet odor of fruit, rum and cream.
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She could stir her own pots and pans at your feet while you cook dinner.
throw
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It's all been thrown into the pot rather like that stew we've just been eating.
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Does a lobster feel pain when we throw it in a pot of boiling water?
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A perfectly formed loaf brings the same satisfaction to its baker as does a perfectly thrown pot to a potter.
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My old man threw a pot of boiling water at me.
use
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Instead I ate a great deal of yoghurt, and we used the pots for bringing on seedlings.
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But you can also use any covered large pot that will hold the fish on a plate.
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A knife may be used to trim leather-hard pots of any excess, particularly from wheel-thrown and moulded vessels.
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Father was a great cook and seemed to use every pot in San Francisco.
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Far left: Patricia uses a pot of sugar-pink azaleas to complement the garden's perennial forget-me-nots.
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Plenty of owners complain about their cats using plant pots as litter boxes.
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Use the flower. 46. Use the plant pot . 47.
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If they needed to relieve themselves when it was not their turn to go outside, they could use their special pots .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in the melting pot
not have a pot to piss in
potted history/biography/version
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Keeping a job file Your employer will have a personnel file containing a potted history of your career with the company.
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Martin's potted history of each railway is certainly sufficiently detailed to whet the appetite enough to free buttocks from armchair Dralon.
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They were farcically satirical potted biographies in sets of two rhyming couplets.
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Woven into these personal accounts are potted histories of disturbing events, ancient and modern.
take a pot shot at sb/sth
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There is a small but vocal minority that likes to take pot shots at the United Nations.
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It would be easy, even tempting, to take a pot shot at us.
take pot luck
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Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.
the pot of gold (at the end of the rainbow)
throw a pot
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A perfectly formed loaf brings the same satisfaction to its baker as does a perfectly thrown pot to a potter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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pots and pans
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a pot of honey
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a coffee pot
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a soup pot
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broken shards of Roman pots
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Do you think I should put it in a bigger pot ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Corning's high-quality, high-priced pots and pans are more vulnerable to recession than more humble vessels.
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However it's unlikely her pot belly will disappear.
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It's like firing a pot .
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Put the peel in a large pot of water and boil it until the peel becomes tender.
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She ordered a pot of tea for one.
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Sugar sweetens the pot as in-season fruits are added.
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Too big for a cooking pot , too small for a bath, Mrs Kim-Soon decided.
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We watered the pots of white geraniums which bordered an improvised set of steps, boards on bricks, covered with sheets.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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The layer should be sufficiently well rooted to move or pot up 12-24 months later.
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Leave cuttings until the following autumn before potting up or transplanting.
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It was potted up too recently, so reject it.
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You can also buy up to 300 different herbs, potted up for sale.
■ NOUN
plant
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Once well formed, remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly.
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Time-released water capsules for your potted plants when you were away?
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A Shambellie pug, a bather, a negro-a potted plant .
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They wish to convert Pima County supervisors into potted plants like the Tucson mayor and council.
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I pot my plants , which works, but I don't know if this is actually necessary.
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Ku allegedly paid him with $ 500 left under a potted plant .
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About 2.7m potted plants are being stockpiled for planting and display on roadside verges and outside conference halls.
■ VERB
go
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Her relationship with the boy has gone to pot lately.
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Montreal was powdering its face and putting on lipstick while infrastructure was going to pot .
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Many people's good intentions go to pot as Ian Cocking does the work virtually single handed.
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Birth then becomes difficult and painful and, of course, the economics of the whole operation goes to pot .
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The foundry was allowed to go to pot in the seventies and Pringle's started purchasing from outside suppliers.
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There was another moneymaking scheme gone to pot .
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After this, like the rest of my sporting career, it all rather went to pot .
melt
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Multiple melting pots A single election is a slender base on which to argue how a country has changed.
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The melting-pot , you know.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
in the melting pot
potted history/biography/version
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Keeping a job file Your employer will have a personnel file containing a potted history of your career with the company.
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Martin's potted history of each railway is certainly sufficiently detailed to whet the appetite enough to free buttocks from armchair Dralon.
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They were farcically satirical potted biographies in sets of two rhyming couplets.
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Woven into these personal accounts are potted histories of disturbing events, ancient and modern.
take a pot shot at sb/sth
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There is a small but vocal minority that likes to take pot shots at the United Nations.
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It would be easy, even tempting, to take a pot shot at us.
take pot luck
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Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.
the pot of gold (at the end of the rainbow)
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Foster stood by the doorway of the hotel, next to a potted palm.
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Once well formed, remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly.
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White clinched a quarter-final place when he potted the last red and colours to the pink in the deciding frame.