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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. Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, potty, stool, throne, toilet.

3.

The quantity contained in a pot. Synonym: potful.

4.

A container in which plants are cultivated. Synonym: flowerpot.

5.

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent. Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad. "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"

6.

The cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker). Synonyms: jackpot, kitty.

7.

Slang for a paunch. Synonyms: bay window, corporation, potbelly, tummy.

8.

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

9.

Street names for marijuana. Synonyms: dope, gage, grass, green goddess, locoweed, Mary Jane, sens, sess, skunk, smoke, weed.

verb

(past & past part. potted; pres. part. potting)

1.

Plant in a pot.

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"Pot" Quotes from Famous Books

... when I reached Charing Cross I found myself on the fringe of another and much larger crowd, and that the people, who seemed to be waiting for somebody and were chatting with a noise like the crackling of thorns under a pot, were saying: ...

— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

... spellin' makes patter, nor yet snips and snaps of snide talk. You may cut a moke out o' pitch-pine, mate, and paint it, but can't make it walk. You may chuck a whole Slang Dixionary by chunks in a stodge-pot of chat, But if 'tisn't alive, 'tain't chin-music, but ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., September 20, 1890 • Various

... the smell of lamp-oil; the low song of the wind through the rigging, that came humming in at the doorway, which was never closed, night or day, unless the seas were washing to and fro on the main deck. He knew everything so well; the very pen and the rarely used ink-pot; the Captain's attitude, and the British care that he took not to speak with his lips that which was ...

— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman

... scarcely like to say it, but they're almost white, my dear Phoebe. Your complexion is sallow, and mine is pink and rosy. Why, with a bottle of hair-dye, such as we see advertised in the papers, and a pot of rouge, you'd be as good-looking as ...

— Lady Audley's Secret • Mary Elizabeth Braddon

... in his nose, cheeks and forehead: an hostess I found there too, a woman of very good carriage; and though she had not so much colour (for what she had done) as her rich husband had, yet all beholders might perceive by the roundness of her belly, that she was able to draw a pot dry at a draught, and ne'er ...

— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

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