pot1 nounpot2 verb
potpot1 /pɒt $ pɑːt/ ●●● S2 W2 noun 
WORD ORIGINpot1
Origin:
Old English pottEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- pots and pans
- a pot of honey
- a coffee pot
- a soup pot
- broken shards of Roman pots
- Do you think I should put it in a bigger pot?
- Corning's high-quality, high-priced pots and pans are more vulnerable to recession than more humble vessels.
- However it's unlikely her pot belly will disappear.
- It's like firing a pot.
- Put the peel in a large pot of water and boil it until the peel becomes tender.
- She ordered a pot of tea for one.
- Sugar sweetens the pot as in-season fruits are added.
- Too big for a cooking pot, too small for a bath, Mrs Kim-Soon decided.
- We watered the pots of white geraniums which bordered an improvised set of steps, boards on bricks, covered with sheets.
Longman Language Activatormoney that is collected for a purpose
a large sum of money that is collected and kept, especially so that it can be used by a particular group of people who need it: · There's a special fund you can apply to, that pays for blind students to go to university.· If I'm successful in raising over £500, those funds will go to the Bible School.£400/$30,000 etc in funds: · A total of $5,800 in church funds has been used to provide assistance to local people.set up a fund: · They used this money to set up a fund for the refugees.raise funds: · The event was held to raise funds to promote AIDS awareness among young gays.· The hand-sewn quilts will be sold at a Christmas Craft Fair to raise funds for the arts project.appeal fund (=a special fund that is set up to help someone who is ill, needs special help etc): · Supporters have set up an appeal fund to help Peter fight the case.· Tell us, Gillian, how much do you have in the appeal fund now?slush fund (=money that has been obtained secretly and illegally, and that is used for illegal purposes): · He is on trial for accepting kickbacks from business moguls to build his slush fund.
informal a small sum of money that is collected from all the people in a group and used to buy their food or drinks, pay their bills etc: · "Are we having takeout tonight?" "Depends how much is in the pot."· Do you all just put a bit in the kitty each week for basics?· There's nothing in the kitty, so if anyone wants another drink they'll have to get it themselves.
WORD SETSacid, nounaddict, nounaddicted, adjectiveaddiction, nounaddictive, adjectiveamphetamine, nounbong, nouncannabis, nounclean, adjectivecocaine, nouncoke, nouncold turkey, nouncontrolled substance, nouncrack, nouncut, verbdeal, verbdealer, noundesigner drug, noundetox, noundetoxification, noundope, noundope, verbdopehead, noundowner, noundrug, noundrug addict, noundrug baron, noundrug czar, noundrug dealer, noundruggie, noundrug rehabilitation, noundrug runner, nounecstasy, nounfix, nounganja, noungear, nounglue-sniffing, noungrass, nounhallucinogen, nounhallucinogenic, adjectivehard, adjectivehard drugs, nounhash, nounhashish, nounhemp, nounheroin, nounhigh, adjectivehigh, nounhippie, nounhit, nounjoint, nounjunkie, nounline, nounLSD, nounmagic mushroom, nounmainline, verbmarijuana, nounmescaline, nounmethadone, nounmule, nounnarc, nounnarcotic, adjectiveneedle, nounOD, verbopiate, nounopium, nounoverdose, nounpeddler, nounpep pill, nounpot, nounpsychedelic, adjectivepush, verbpusher, nounrecovery program, nounreefer, nounrehab, nounroach, nounscore, verbshooting gallery, nounsmack, nounsmoke, nounsniff, verbsnort, verbsnort, nounsnow, nounsoft drug, nounsolvent abuse, nounspeed, nounstash, nounsteroid, nounstoned, adjectivestrung-out, adjectivesubstance abuse, nountab, nountake, verbtrafficking, nountrip, nountrip, verbuse, verbwasted, adjectiveweed, nounwithdrawal, nounwithdrawal symptoms, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
pots and pans The government has let the whole country go to pot. He’s hoping to make pots of money from the deal. Michael was smoking pot with some friends.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pots and pans The government has let the whole country go to pot. He’s hoping to make pots of money from the deal. Michael was smoking pot with some friends.· Shall I make a pot of coffee?
· She refilled the coffee pot.
· The terrace was covered in flower pots.
· He had spilt a can of paint on the floor.
British English (=a plant that is grown in a container)· He leaves his house key under the potted plant on the porch.
· Shall I make a pot of tea?
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· For instance, Mr Culboon and his wife both had big old floppy pot bellies.· The perfect both-ways hand in a high-low game, with a big pot building.· It was an ornate old lobby with great marble supporting columns and big pots of palms standing around.· Using the biggest pot you have simply plunge it into lots of boiling salted water.· Their torsos were big pots, their legs and arms were made out of pots.· We had dried fruit and salted meat, and big pots to keep water in.· The result, in theory, is a bigger pot of money for all of them to dip into.
· The Street had more hot plots than hot-pots.· Hippie dips, or hot pots, are circles of rocks built around natural hot springs.
· There were Moorish arches everywhere and huge earthenware pots filled with whispery green ferns and bright geraniums and spiky yuccas.· Beautiful huge handmade ceramic pots add to the festive decor.· They are tucking into buttered scones and a huge pot of tea.· The most important of these are on huge pots, designed not for use but to stand on graves.
· Those people are not exploiting a loophole or grabbing at a large pot of gold.· In a large pot, bring 4 cups water to boil.· In the summer it is crammed full, with pots hanging from the roof, and larger pots standing on the ground.· But you can also use any covered large pot that will hold the fish on a plate.· The wafers finished, a large pot of tea arrived with a plate of fruit cake slices.· In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, heat oil and saute carcasses until browned.· This meant bringing water in large water pots from the river two miles away.· Put the peel in a large pot of water and boil it until the peel becomes tender.
· He ate it standing up by the sink, and deliberately left the little pot on the marble work surface.· Yoyo suggested, thinking it would be nice to have a little pot to smoke when things on the Island got dull.· They came to life and leapt out of their hiding places in little pots.· Babyboomers may well have smoked a little pot in college.· It also comes in handy little pots, so you don't have to waste half of it.· Fach little pot is controlled by the neighborhood.
· She learnt that these plates did not come up to the manufacturer's high standards and would go back into the melting pot.· The remaining bare shell is then cut up and sent off to its grave in the industry's melting pot.· But again they are an ancient group with ancestors back in the Carboniferous forest, a melting pot for plant evolution.· Magic and medicine were often in the same melting pot.· The Copperbelt has been a political melting pot for years.
· There were sandwiches and meat on sticks, fruit and small pots of a strange looking white substance.· On her head was placed a small pot.· When there are plenty of roots, transfer the cutting to a small pot of compost.· What did some one look like squatting awkwardly on a small chamber pot.· For small early beets, sow small pots with 2-3 capsules and plant out seedling clusters unthinned.· The little girls had their own pieces of play embroidery and carried small brass pots on their heads.· Expect all pads, activated by small four-pot calipers, to run hot.· For this reason, potted meats and fish are essentially delicacies to be packed into small pots.
NOUN· Maori artefacts, washing machines, gramophones, even chamber pots of every size shape and colour.· That chamber pot, you see, somehow reminds me of the brains on the floor.· There would be all sorts of things rattling down on you - railings and chamber pots and lavatory pots.· What did some one look like squatting awkwardly on a small chamber pot.· A Safe Place On the day when there was a full chamber pot under the breakfast table I decided to leave.· There was no running water in the Gandhi home; each room had a chamber pot.· The fancy bowls, water jugs and chamber pots, now so beloved of antique dealers, were in every bedroom.· Younger Brother... where is the chamber pot?
· The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames.· The mortar securing the chimney pot would have to be replaced, along with the pot.· Two marble top wash-stands made £235; a pair Victorian chimney pots, £110 and an oak and marble sideboard, £300.· Features include two old chimney pots and a sundial.· When he left, she gave him two chimney pots, which had previously been on her house.· But before any type of chimney pot is fitted, check the condition of the flue.· Starlings, blundering among the chimney pots, precipitate small avalanches over their tails.· Lines of tiles shimmered in the slivers of moonlight. Chimney pots stood out in black profile like squat, ebony gargoyles.
· In the flat bottom of his canoe a fire smoulders under a clay pot full of red palm oil.· Yet this nondescript clay pot endures.· As she carried the clay pots, six at a time, from the greenhouse, a light wind scuttled her skirt.· Pour over mixture in clay pot.· In a new departure, Change, somewhat forlorn rows of clay pots confront enlarged versions of coins of the Ottoman Empire.· More clay pots can hold geraniums or other summer flowers that add color to a patio or back yard.· Put the rice in a clay pot or a medium-sized pot.· Of primary importance were the clay pots, so much better suited as containers than the skins and baskets employed by hunters.
· Certes, my lord, I have the gelt to replace yon coffee pot.· He got up stiffly, finding a steaming coffee pot beside his four-poster.· Glass with coffee pots and metal and found magazine pictures and glass with just plain glass.· A woman batters her husband to death with a coffee pot which she for ever after keeps in her shopping bag.· Flight attendants have complained that everything in aircraft cabins, including coffee pots, are secured except small children.· Micheline Vandepoel is a treat to watch as Rosa, the coffee pot lady.· Pitchers were set out for milk and the large coffee pot was bubbling on the stove.
· A cooking pot hung on a tripod though the logs beneath were now blackened cinders.· Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire.· He dug his long nails into them and stumbled to the cooking pot, almost running.· This is an adaptation to survive predation from the many animals that hunt them - not least man for the cooking pot!· But clothes had to be bought, and medicines, and cooking pots and kerosene for the hurricane lamps.· There were some cooking pots, and a large bowl half full of water.· A happier fate than ending up in the cooking pot at Berkeley Castle.· The first thing he saw through a gap between the huts was a cooking pot, a grey bulge in the dimness.
· Others prefer a solid object, such as a filter tube, tank wall, or even a rock or flower pot.· Lee was poking about, knocking dusty packets of seeds off the shelf and moving flower pots.· Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots.· Round the base are peculiar attached columns with upside-down flower pots in stone on top.· Cover them with a bucket or large flower pot, or place a dinner plate on a crown of foliage.· Stick the flower pot centrally to card, as with the mug.· Elsie provided a copper ashtray the size of a flower pot.
· Excepting share a yacht or pot luck boats, those who wish to use them carry them.· Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.
· I put some plants into old paint pots and hung them from the joists in the veranda roof.
· And after a long moment he reached across and replaced the pepper pot.
· For example, how do I get a quart of soup into a pint pot?· Yet, ironically, car production today is still being crammed into a pint pot.· So you was always greeted with a drink out of this pint pot.· For most gardeners, a garden is like a pint pot - you can not get a quart into it.· Next to him, a hard-looking white youth stared gloomily into an almost-empty pint pot.· His enormous arm went over Rory's head, the empty pint pot hanging in the smoke above the counter.
· Decor is slate rocks, bogwood, pebbles, sewer pipe and plant pots.· Plenty of owners complain about their cats using plant pots as litter boxes.· Some one had been making clay ashtrays and abstract plant pots.· Go to the plant pot and spray it, then jump off the ledge.· Leap on to the ledge and then the door, and finally the plant pot.· Use the plant pot. 47.· Then leap on to the window ledge of Toys N Stuff, then the door and spray the plant pot.· Go back to the bin and bounce to the right, spraying the plant pot on the way.
· I could still make an excellent chicken and barley pot roast.· I really like old-fashioned pot roast and gorgeous chunks of beef in thick stews.· Tony seemed amused as he took a bite of pot roast and scanned the room.· For dinner, Aunt Mary made pot roast, steamed asparagus, wild rice, and, for dessert, apple pie.
· The children soon got the idea and sorted things of similar size and shape, e.g. egg boxes and yoghurt pots.
VERB· Return the veal shanks to the pot and add enough of the stock to cover. 4.· As the year continues pot plants add colour and garden furniture will transform the paved area.· Beautiful huge handmade ceramic pots add to the festive decor.· Small fragments of pot are also added-known as grog.
· Bring a pot of water to a boil and immerse Brussels sprouts in boiling water.· I thought about boiling a pot of water and waking him with that.
· No additional scandal was required to bring the pot to a boil. ` I have nothing to say.· Dad brought the pot of tea in and sat down.· But bring on a pot of mint or a furry pumpkin leaf, and watch them rave.· You may bring me a pot of tea at four o'clock.· I asked her to bring me up a pot of tea, and when she had gone, inspected the room further.
· She'd bought a pot of raspberry jam that had turned out to be bad.
· As she carried the clay pots, six at a time, from the greenhouse, a light wind scuttled her skirt.· Cynthia arrived, wearing a pair of blue oven mitts and carrying a large stew pot.· He carried the pot and three mugs through to the front room.· He and Kasturbai, and sometimes the older boys, carried out the pots.· The little girls had their own pieces of play embroidery and carried small brass pots on their heads.
· A friend of his father said he could get Isaac a job making cooking pots in Ivory Coast.· Without running water, women wash their cooking pots in the street.· While the meat barbecued and the cooking pots steamed, the captain explained to me the use of a large earthenware jar.· Too big for a cooking pot, too small for a bath, Mrs Kim-Soon decided.
· At this stage you can add a glass of white wine if you have it to spare. Cover the pot.· But you can also use any covered large pot that will hold the fish on a plate.· When completely cold, cover the pot with foil or greaseproof paper.· Barely cover the peeled potatoes with cold water, cover the pot, then turn the heat to high.· Add 10 cups cold water, or enough to cover chicken. Cover pot, and bring to a boil.· Remove foil covering from pot and place plant on a gravel-filled saucer to allow adequate drainage.· Add rabbit pieces. Cover pot and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour.
· Would you mind filling the pot, Maurice?· Iron gates open to a courtyard filled with pots of geraniums and ivy tucked next to rusted bistro tables and chairs.· I accept that there have always been some problems, but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow.· Rabari women were at the well, five or six of them, filling their pots.· Keep warm. Fill a large pot with water and bring to a rapid boil.
· The second firing occurs after the pot has been allowed to cool down and the glaze is applied.· It's like firing a pot.
· Parsley seedlings can be grown in terracotta pots and placed on a patio, or they can be planted outside.· You could grow yours in a pot, but you will need to repot to a larger container as the shrub matures.· Daffodils can also be grown in tubs or pots for earlier blooming.· What a contrast to the beautiful gladioli grown by Carole in pots.· They can be planted out or left to grow in the pot, but will soon need re-potting.· They're for growing in pots.· As bulbs grow in pots, the amount of water needed varies according to the growth of the flowers.
· I accept that there have always been some problems, but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow.· For Franco, the key to survival lay in keeping the pot simmering, but never allowing it to boil over.
· Sarah had made a pot of tea and left them together in the overcrowded room.· He undressed and put on his pajamas and robe and made a pot of Darjeeling.· She put the card down, and pondered as she made a pot of tea.· In her apartment she made a pot of herbal tea and filled two cups.· Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.· While the potatoes were frying she buttered the bread and made a pot of tea.· After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other.· For dinner, Aunt Mary made pot roast, steamed asparagus, wild rice, and, for dessert, apple pie.
· The two have worked together to produce a booming Sunbelt and a brisk new stirring of the ethnic melting pot.· The melting pot is attracting foreigners.· We are, as they say up north, a melting pot.· With two exceptions, Mr Gore won every melting-pot state.· The two Celts hit it off immediately and their melting pot of country and house was first put on to stew.
· Top: These roses have been placed in a pot of water prior to being pressed gradually as the petals open.· The scientists injected the fungus into young pine trees, which were then placed in pots.· The lobster slumped instantly, to all appearances dead, and being limp was easier to place in the pot.· On her head was placed a small pot.
· Paige lay back, watching him mooch about, putting a pot over the fire and ranging their clothes to dry.· The drovers made a fire and put on a pot of coffee and began frying up pancakes and slabs of pork.· Fred was in the kitchen tidying up and putting the freshly washed pots and pans in their proper places.· We stoke the coals, put on a pot of potatoes, and slap five pork chops on to the grill.· Emil told me to collect the champagne glasses, pour the water and put a pot of breadsticks on each table.· Yes, I awakened Ti Boy and had him put on a pot.· Add all other ingredients and boil for 30 mins. Put marmalade into warm pots and cover at once.· She poured the burned coffee she had been drinking into the sink and put on a fresh pot.
· The waterside cafe serves everything from a pot of tea to a full range of appetising snacks and meals.· Remove pot from oven and serve right from the pot either warm or at room temperature.
· She set about making a pot of tea.· Simply place them into a steamer or colander and set over a pot of boiling water for about one minute.
· Jessica said soothingly, staring at the smoking pot, at the same time pushing herself to her feet.· We apparently had surprised them because there were still smoking pots with food in them.· Now at 13, he was smoking pot and planning to pierce his ear, eyebrow and lip.· Babyboomers may well have smoked a little pot in college.· There are languorous afternoons and evenings swimming and smoking pot.· I mean, we were smoking pot at twelve and thirteen, smoking with Tunner.
· Press one or two pips into each pot. Stand the pot in a saucer and keep the compost moist.· Also stand the pot in a tray of damp pebbles, too.· Regular spraying with this soot solution kept leaf miners off chrysanthemums standing outside in pots.
· He could see a few of the other scullions nearby. standing on their stools stirring pots, wiping stoves, polishing stove-fronts.· Over another grill a young woman stirs a pot of soup with a sweet odor of fruit, rum and cream.· She could stir her own pots and pans at your feet while you cook dinner.
· It's all been thrown into the pot rather like that stew we've just been eating.· Does a lobster feel pain when we throw it in a pot of boiling water?· A perfectly formed loaf brings the same satisfaction to its baker as does a perfectly thrown pot to a potter.· My old man threw a pot of boiling water at me.
· Instead I ate a great deal of yoghurt, and we used the pots for bringing on seedlings.· But you can also use any covered large pot that will hold the fish on a plate.· A knife may be used to trim leather-hard pots of any excess, particularly from wheel-thrown and moulded vessels.· Father was a great cook and seemed to use every pot in San Francisco.· Far left: Patricia uses a pot of sugar-pink azaleas to complement the garden's perennial forget-me-nots.· Plenty of owners complain about their cats using plant pots as litter boxes.· Use the flower. 46. Use the plant pot. 47.· If they needed to relieve themselves when it was not their turn to go outside, they could use their special pots.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the potPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the pot of gold (at the end of the rainbow)► in the melting pot► not have a pot to piss in
1- It was a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.
- My God, they've really let the house go to pot.
- Birth then becomes difficult and painful and, of course, the economics of the whole operation goes to pot.
- Her relationship with the boy has gone to pot lately.
- Many people's good intentions go to pot as Ian Cocking does the work virtually single handed.
- Montreal was powdering its face and putting on lipstick while infrastructure was going to pot.
- The foundry was allowed to go to pot in the seventies and Pringle's started purchasing from outside suppliers.
- There was another moneymaking scheme gone to pot.
- This whole village has gone to pots.
- It would also become clear which of the 70 pots of money were in high demand and which were irrelevant.
- The counselor would then electronically graze the 70 categorical pots of money.
- Before farmers had to take pot luck over whether their ewes were pregnant.
- There is a small but vocal minority that likes to take pot shots at the United Nations.
- It would be easy, even tempting, to take a pot shot at us.
- A perfectly formed loaf brings the same satisfaction to its baker as does a perfectly thrown pot to a potter.
cooking [countable] a container used for cooking which is round, deep, and usually made of metal: pots and panspot of There was a big pot of soup on the stove.2for a plant [countable] a container for a plant, usually made of plastic or baked clay: herbs growing in pots3tea/coffee [countable] a container with a handle and a small tube for pouring, used to make tea or coffee: Is there any tea left in the pot?pot of I’ll make a pot of coffee. → coffee pot, teapot4for food, paint etc [countable] British English a round container for storing foods such as jam that are slightly liquid, or for substances such as glue or paintpot of a pot of blue paintjam/paint/yoghurt etc pot5bowl/dish etc [countable] a dish, bowl, plate, or another container that is made by shaping clay and then baking it: an earthenware pot6go to pot informal if something such as a place or an organization goes to pot, it becomes much worse or fails because no one is taking care of it: The government has let the whole country go to pot.7pots of money British English informal a lot of money: They’ve got pots of money in the bank. He’s hoping to make pots of money from the deal.8money the pot a)money that is available to do something, especially money that people have collectedin the pot So far we’ve got £150 in the pot. b)all the money that people have risked in a card game, and which can be wonin the pot There was $1000 in the pot.9drug [uncountable] old-fashioned informal marijuana: Michael was smoking pot with some friends.10(a case of) the pot calling the kettle black informal used humorously to say that you should not criticize someone for something, because you have done the same thing or have the same fault11stomach [countable] a potbelly12hit a ball [countable] British English the act of hitting a ball into one of the pockets (=holes at the edge of the table) in games such as billiards, pool, and snooker13toilet [countable] informal a toilet → chamber pot, chimney pot, flowerpot, lobsterpot, melting potpot1 nounpot2 verb
potpot2 verb (past tense and past participle potted, present participle potting) [transitive] 1 (also pot up British English) to put a plant into a pot filled with soil: Pot the seedlings after 2–3 weeks.2 British English to hit a ball into one of the pockets (=holes at the edge of the table) in games such as billiards, pool, and snooker SYN pocket