This term is less specific than English pot or pan, and can often be used to refer to either of these. The sample images at right illustrate some of the various items that can be
2. n. short for 鍋物, tr=nabemono, a dish where everything is cooked together in a nabe; compare English hot pot or hotdish
⇒ 鍋物, tr=nabemono
3. n. by extension from the sense of someone working with pots and pans, a maidservant
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)
saucepan
1. 鍋, ソースパン
saucepan
1. n. (cookware) A deep cooking vessel with a handle and sometimes a lid; used for boiling, stewing and making sauces.
hot pot
hot pot
1. n. (chiefly UK) A stew of beef or lamb and potatoes.
2. n. A communal meal, popular in China, wherein diners share a hot bowl of broth or stock into which uncooked foods such as mushrooms, vegetables, and cuts of meat are dipped until they are cooked enough t
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