| pot | |
| 1. n. A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food. | |
| 2. n. Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly | |
| 3. n. A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot. | |
| 4. n. A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee or teapot. | |
| 5. n. A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot. | |
| 6. n. (archaic except in fixed expressions) A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory. | |
| Shit or get off the pot. | |
| 7. n. A crucible: a melting pot. | |
| 8. n. A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobsterpot. | |
| 9. n. A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot. | |
| 10. n. A perforated cask for draining sugar. | |
| 11. n. (obsolete) An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor. | |
| 12. n. (Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL). | |
| 13. n. (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave e.g. | |
| 14. n. (slang) Ruin or deterioration. | |
| After his arrest, his prospects went to pot. | |
| 15. n. (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet. | |
| 16. n. (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground. | |
| 17. n. (gambling) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement. | |
| No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot. | |
| 18. n. (horse-racing) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse. | |
| 19. n. (sports) The act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket in cue sports such as billiards. | |
| 20. n. (slang) (clipping of potbelly): a pot-shaped belly, a paunch. | |
| 21. n. (slang) (clipping of potshot): a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot. | |
| 22. n. (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast. | |
| 23. n. (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches. | |
| 24. n. topics, en, Poker, Billiards, Snooker, Pool, Headwear, Armor, Paper sizes | |
| 25. v. To put (something) into a pot. | |
| to pot a plant | |
| 26. v. To preserve by bottling or canning. | |
| potted meat | |
| 27. v. (cue sports) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket. | |
| 28. v. (cue sports) To be capable of being potted. | |
| The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way. | |
| 29. v. To shoot with a firearm. | |
| 30. v. (intransitive, dated) To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm. | |
| 31. v. (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag. | |
| 32. v. (British) To send someone to gaol, expeditiously. | |
| 33. v. (obsolete, dialect, UK) To tipple; to drink. | |
| 34. v. To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask. | |
| 35. v. (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching. | |
| Could you please pot the children before sending them to bed? | |
| 36. v. (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb. | |
| 37. n. (slang) Marijuana | |
| 38. n. (slang) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdr | |
| 39. n. (RPG) (clipping of potion) | |
