potatopo‧ta‧to /pəˈteɪtəʊ $ -toʊ/ ●●● S2 noun (plural potatoes) 
[countable, uncountable] a round white vegetable with a brown, red, or pale yellow skin, that grows under the groundroast/fried/boiled/mashed potatojacket potato (=cooked in its skin)
Marie stood at the sink, peeling potatoes (=cutting off the skin).2[countable] a plant that produces potatoesCOLLOCATIONSverbspeel potatoes (=cut the skin off them)· Peel and slice the potatoes.slice potatoes (=cut them into long thin pieces)dice potatoes (=cut them into small square pieces)mash potatoes (=crush them until they are smooth, after boiling them)ADJECTIVES/NOUN + potatoboiled potatoes· Serve with plain boiled potatoes.mashed potato(es) (=boiled and crushed until smooth)· I like sausages with mashed potatoes.roast potatoes (=cooked in an oven with fat)· traditional roast beef with roast potatoesa baked/jacket potato (=cooked in its skin)· We cooked baked potatoes in the embers of the fire.
WORD ORIGINpotato
Origin:
1500-1600 Spanish batata, from TainoEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a baked potato
- mashed potatoes
- Carefully remove the potatoes from the pan with a slotted spoon and reserve any remaining stock to make the gravy if desired.
- Good Friday in East Anglia used to be the traditional day for planting potatoes.
- He later became director of the potato program and was named state seed commissioner in 1988.
- It goes together easily with butternut squash, onion, potato, carrots and broth.
- Long tables with stainless-steel trays held mashed potatoes, sauerkraut, fried oysters and oyster stew.
- The Colorado beetle spreads over a potato crop and a human population starves.
- The salad was in the ice box, and the roast and potatoes in the oven.
- Try these deliciously crunchy potato skins with garlic mayonnaise as an alternative to the chive and garlic dressing.
WORD SETS
alfalfa, nounarable, adjectivebarley, nounbran, nouncacao, nouncanker, nouncash crop, nouncassava, nouncereal, nouncocoa, nouncorn, nouncrop, nouncrop-dusting, nouncrop rotation, nouncrop-spraying, nouncultivate, verbcultivated, adjectivecultivation, nouncultivator, noundrill, noundrill, verbear, nounfertilize, verbfertilizer, nounfield corn, noungerminate, verbglean, verbgrain, noungranary, noungrower, nounharvest, nounharvest, verbharvester, nounhay, nounhayloft, nounhaystack, nounhorticulture, nounkernel, nounlift, verbmaize, nounmalt, nounmarket garden, nounmillet, nounoats, nounorchard, nounorganic, adjectiveplant, verbplantation, nounpotato, nounproduce, nounpropagate, verbprune, verbreap, verbrice, nounrice paddy, nounripe, adjectiveroot crop, nounrotate, verbrye, nounryegrass, nounscion, nounseason, nounseed, verbseedbed, nounsheaf, nounsisal, nounsorghum, nounsow, verbsprout, nounstraw, nounstubble, nounsugar beet, nountaro, nountill, verbtillage, noununripe, adjectivevegetable, nounvineyard, nounviticulture, nounwheat, nounwindfall, nounwinnow, verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs a bag of potato chips The issue has become a political hot potato.
(=cut the skin off them)· Peel and slice the potatoes.
(=cut them into long thin pieces)
(=cut them into small square pieces)
(=crush them until they are smooth, after boiling them)
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + potato· Serve with plain boiled potatoes.
(=boiled and crushed until smooth)· I like sausages with mashed potatoes.
(=cooked in an oven with fat)· traditional roast beef with roast potatoes
(=cooked in its skin)· We cooked baked potatoes in the embers of the fire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bag of potato chips· This year's grain harvest is expected to be well over 85 million tons.
The issue has become a political hot potato.· Bean plants are easy to grow.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Fiona had made dinner; nothing special, some baked fish and potatoes, but it was good.· A baked potato is very permissible, of course.· In one. Baked potatoes, green beans and a nicely basted pork roast.· You may have forsaken chips in favour of baked potatoes but what about that weakness for crisps?· Oats, salads and baked potatoes form the basis of three daily meals.· Or how the mayonnaise melted into a piping hot baked potato?· Tea: Poached fish in cheese sauce, peas, baked potato, piece of fresh fruit.· Steak pies, with baked potatoes and stewed applies.
· If you want potatoes with your meal, cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips.· Dinner Chicken casserole, boiled potatoes in their skins, lemon sorbet.· Light beer and vodka were followed by a simple but nourishing meal of stewed meat and boiled potatoes, preceded by borscht.· Dinner Grilled kipper, tomatoes, peas and boiled potatoes, banana to finish.· Chops, he thinks, with boiled potatoes.
· Plant garlic, shallots and Jerusalem artichokes as soon as possible, early potatoes about mid-month.· My college nutrition textbook devoted an entire chapter to the positive impact of starches on early development, potatoes main among them.· Plant the peas, zigzag fashion, 2in apart. Early potatoes should be sprouted indoors now to go out in spring.· Farmers near Girvan and Dunbar use these advantages to provide early potatoes for the large markets of Glasgow and Edinburgh.· An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting.· This was for the specialised early potato market.· One of their advantages is that they are an early potato which comes to maturity in autumn.· The early potatoes were well up and looking very healthy, I was happy to see.
· The loss of vitamin C in fried potatoes has been investigated but the results show considerable variation according to conditions.
· And Ireland was the sort of hot potato a Bagshaw feared most.· The BritTrak stuff is quite a hot enough potato for one conference.· Add more hot water if potatoes seem too dry.· The idea of taxing perks was simply too hot a political potato to be left to the bureaucrats.· Or how the mayonnaise melted into a piping hot baked potato?· In Gloucestershire for instance, it's the hottest of hot potatoes.
· When darkness came he ventured out, selecting a large potato - which tasted awful although he ate it all.· Dry Roast Potatoes Choose medium to large potatoes of even size.· Cook potatoes of a similar size together to ensure they cook evenly. Large potatoes may be cut.
· It was macaroni cheese and mashed potatoes.· Shape some of the mashed potato mixture around each sausage.· Nothing to eat but instant mashed potato, pickles and maybe corned beef if you are lucky.· Top with instant mashed potato and brown under the grill.· I was about to prepare a dessert of mashed potato, flavoured with an Oxo cube.· Cover the fish completely with the mashed potatoes and smooth over with a fork.· We like simple things such as lamb and mashed potatoes.· Moving progressively towards a thick mashed potato consistency is well on the way to a normal diet.
· Chop ¼ red pepper, 2 spring onions, 1 celery stalk, 2 cooked new potatoes, cucumber and 2 mushrooms.· Puny had left baked chicken, and green beans cooked with new potatoes, one of his favorite meals.· Oh, too bad, she decided to cook some new potatoes and they could take them or leave them.· Serve this dish with simple accompaniments such as steamed new potatoes, rice or buttered fresh pasta.· In small, nicely made wooden drums there were new potatoes no larger than damsons.· Serve with new potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower.· Serve with new potatoes and a green salad.· The waiter lifted the salver to reveal a rack of lamb surrounded by courgettes and tiny new potatoes.
· It had become a political hot potato, and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run.· Not so much political hot potatoes, as political sweeteners.· The idea of taxing perks was simply too hot a political potato to be left to the bureaucrats.
· Savoury Deep-fat-fried chips, roast potatoes.· She kept feeding Hansel huge portions of roast beef and potatoes to make him fat and juicy.· There had been a dinner cooked, turkey or chicken with sausages, roast potatoes and stuffing.· A roast chicken followed, with pale stuffing, a hot gravy and masses of floury roast potatoes.· He loves belly pork with spring cabbage and roast potatoes, and a good, hot curry.· Lunch was pea soup, roast beef, roast potatoes, sprouts and peas, with apple snow for dessert.· Sunday was best of all with cold roast beef and potatoes or bread.· I still love my chips and pies and lots of roast potatoes and I drink pints and pints of milk.
· Novell is so rich that the Unix acquisition is relatively small potatoes.· Both the Foster papers and the travel office flap are small potatoes.· Don't ask me how a big thing like a spaceship can go into a thing as small as a potato.· Paradoxically, the accusations stirring the most indignation have, in money terms, been comparatively small potatoes.· A young girl skips down the steep path with a small sack of potatoes.· Left to our own devices, we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes.· Like organic farming: it was small potatoes.· Of course, in that environment, being a congenital liar was small potatoes.
· Substitute sweet potatoes for russets the next time you serve baked potatoes with pork or chicken.· Chemical control of sweet potato pests has had varying degrees of success, with many chemicals being too expensive.· This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk.· I wonder if Stuart likes sweet potatoes?· Carrots, spinach, kale, broccoli and sweet potatoes are among foods rich in beta carotene.· We're farmers and export sweet potatoes.
NOUN· Slide the potato cake from the pan on to a plate.
· It was a strange supper - tomatoes, potato chips, dried fruit and cake.· They're as addicting as potato chips.· A till was hurled out into the cheering crowd, followed by burgers, potato chips and furniture.· I miss things like potato chips and junk food.· The man returned to exchange the fudge for potato chips.· You can buy cigarettes, potato chips, Ravens pennants, Styrofoam ice chests and snow shovels.· Could one call Caesars the potato chip of the salad world?· See, e-mail is a baked potato chip as opposed to a greasy, fried one.
· The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato.· In many cases, Olympian designs serve as the basis for apparel that the average couch potato will be able to buy.· And nomatterhow fit you are, you're just as susceptible to the same long-term damage as the average couch potato.· Tired of watching the Grammy Awards as a couch potato?· Skol's sales were up by 4%, thanks largely to demand from couch potatoes.· Nope, we jaded couch potatoes are demanding more.· No more nonstop basketball for couch potato Congressional staff members.
· For example, you might do a survey on potato crisps.· Canapes were suitably Daliesque - smoked salmon, potato crisp and olive creations shaped as lobsters.· Similarly, with potato crisps, have you ever known anyone not finish a packet they started?
· An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting.· Once more the potato crop had failed.· It is applied on 35 percent of Britain's potato crop.· The Colorado beetle spreads over a potato crop and a human population starves.· Slugs turn to the potato crop in late summer, when other food sources are disappearing.
· The potato famine, so many millions of people were affected by it and all the deaths that have occurred.· Their families had come to the United States during the nineteenth-century potato famine.
· Straight from the potato fields and into marriage with himself, she went.· Already over the potato fields of northeastern Maine the harvest moon is rising.· The aircraft had come to rest inverted in a ploughed potato field with the sail and engine on top of the pilot.· In fact it was a potato field with two foot deep furrows and tall healthy plants on the tops.· Josef Jakobs landed in a potato field in North Stifford, Essex, falling heavily and breaking his ankle.
· Dobson said that 96 % of consumers used low fat cream with salad and 45 % with jacket potatoes.· If you want potatoes with your meal, cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips.· Serve with a jacket potato and a green salad.· Cold, cooked jacket potato plus a tub of salad, sandwich filling, or dip.· Open the jacket potatoes lengthways and pile the chilli beans on top.· Two jacket potatoes later - back to it.· The oven door was open, and there were four jacket potatoes on the second shelf.
· There were bowls of coleslaw and potato salad laced with green peas, buttered garlic rolls and hard-boiled eggs.· She finally decided on the ham, potato salad and deviled eggs.· But as he attacked his potato salad Herr Nordern felt exultation.· Note: Leftovers make a great potato salad.· Others made sandwiches for the workers -- and resident Ann Collar cooked 40 pounds of potato salad for the cause.· And heaping side orders, including coleslaw and potato salad, cost 70 cents.· However, it improves lentil or potato salads.· She made potato salad and deviled eggs and tea and I brought green beans and a pound cake.
· The research is focused on developing a suitable model of an export marketing system for Northern Ireland's seed potatoes.· The clause was unreasonable in the context of a contract for the sale of seed potatoes.· Buy seed potatoes from garden centres or by mail order.
VERB· Beat the eggs in a bowl and then add potatoes, onion, flour, salt and pepper.· He added a side of potatoes that included some fat.· Cover and allow to cook without colouring until soft. 4. Add the potatoes and watercress.· Cook and stir until onion is soft, about 10 minutes. Add potatoes and oil.· Remove the garlic; pour in the stock and bring to the boil. Add the potatoes.· Simmer for 40 minutes. Add potatoes and enough water to barely cover everything.· By adding these potatoes, a bulky food of reasonably high-fibre content, they actually lost some weight over a three-month period!· Cool, then add to potato mixture.
· And why bother baking a potato when a packet of crisps is to hand?· The salad bar has over 50 items, including hot pasta and baked potatoes.· It's great for using or, salads and baked potatoes and in sandwiches and dips.· Substitute sweet potatoes for russets the next time you serve baked potatoes with pork or chicken.· I ate an energy-giving meal - bakes beans and jacket potato - a combination the midwife would later curse me for.· As a change from mashed or baked potatoes, prepare scalloped potatoes.· Listed below are a few reasons to bake a potato.· See, e-mail is a baked potato chip as opposed to a greasy, fried one.
· Season well. Boil the potatoes until well done and mash with a little water to achieve a soft consistency.· Doctor, here is a big boiled potato....· Then we built our fire in the outdoor fireplace to boil potatoes and heat up red beans for supper.· He boils cabbage and potatoes all day.· Something boiled, meat and potatoes, home-baked bread.· For example, boiled potatoes satisfied hunger seven times better than croissants.· The satiety index decreased progressively from boiled potatoes to french fries to potato chips.· Cover pan, bring to a boil and boil gently until the potatoes are tender, about eight minutes.
· You can buy cigarettes, potato chips, Ravens pennants, Styrofoam ice chests and snow shovels.· A few tips: Buy firm, unblemished potatoes.
· To transform the spuds, scientists chopped potato leaves into small pieces and scattered them across a laboratory culture dish.· Java Joe and his friend Bic chopped up potatoes and began frying them with onions and garlic in a communal kitchen.· Place chopped and whole potatoes plus all ingredients except peas, parsley, salt and pepper in cooker.
· Oh, too bad, she decided to cook some new potatoes and they could take them or leave them.· In the meantime, cook the potatoes in boiling salted water.· Puny had left baked chicken, and green beans cooked with new potatoes, one of his favorite meals.· We used to cook potatoes and sausages in hot ashes after the fire had burnt down.· Slice the cooked potatoes and arrange in layers in an ovenproof dish.· Others made sandwiches for the workers -- and resident Ann Collar cooked 40 pounds of potato salad for the cause.· Meanwhile, cook the new potatoes in boiling water until tender: drain thoroughly.
· To reduce weight quickly it is a good idea to cut out bread, potatoes and pasta.· Cool slightly. Cut potatoes in half.
· I noticed her hanging around the bar, staring through its window, while I ate my fish and potatoes.· An elderly couple is silently eating chicken and mashed potatoes at a table by the window.· At dawn they ate the potatoes that they'd laid around the fire to cook.· They ate no potatoes that day, sweet or white.· Nothing to eat but instant mashed potato, pickles and maybe corned beef if you are lucky.· Some go through weeks of eating great quantities of potato chips or ice-cream sandwiches before the forbidden foods lose their allure.· While the meat was simmering, they ate puris and spiced potatoes.· I hesitated to eat the mashed potatoes, lest the little gravy lake spill.
· Were people peacefully frying up potatoes, or were they hitting one another on the head with their frying pans?· Dinner was usually fried meat and pasty potatoes thrown on a chipped plate.· This would prevent the crunchy, deep fried chunks of potato from going soft in the accompanying lemon garlic sauce.· They had mutton chops, fried potatoes, and coffee with brandy in it.· I began to smell the odor of steak and fried potatoes and coffee cutting through the smell of hay and manure.
· It was interesting to note that in Wester Ross 62% of the farmers grew potatoes.· Thompson Brothers Farms grows certified seed potatoes, wheat, barley and pinto beans.· There is no doubt that this encouragement to grow potatoes had a disastrous sequel some fifty years later.· Y., which conceived the idea and grew the potatoes.· His garden was a credit to him, too, and he grew flowers and potatoes.· They also grow potatoes for the city markets.· On these terraces farmers grow tea, potatoes, apricot and almond trees as well as wheat, maize and rice.
· The following recipes all include potatoes.· The food spread will include buffalo wings, potato skins and popcorn.· Starters included Corn chowder, potato skins with dips, Nachos and other familiar Stateside items.· Avoid mayonnaise-based selections, including cole slaw and potato and pasta salads.
· Top with the mashed potato and bake in a preheated oven at 190C, 375F or Gas Mark 5 for 30 minutes.· On another visit, not-so-crisp chicken was paired with unseasoned mashed potatoes and too-lemony chard.· This treat he produced by mashing a sweet potato to pulp and adding sugar, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk.· Steam or bake winter squash of your choice, then mash with butter and serve as a colorful alternative to mashed potatoes.· Omar sighed, his round smooth cheeks swelling with the meat, mashed potatoes, and peas-he had stuffed in his mouth.· The wife of a prominent banker, his own banker as a matter of fact, said the banker liked mashed potatoes.· Saut ed green and yellow squash spears and an intriguing pear-shaped centerpiece of crusted mashed potatoes rounded out the platter.
· Just a pair of hands peeling potatoes and a reflection in the mirror.· Barely cover the peeled potatoes with cold water, cover the pot, then turn the heat to high.· With sinking heart Sly realized that he was in a burger joint that was too trendy to peel its potatoes.· A white preacher who prayed for their souls while Sethe peeled potatoes and Grandma Baby sucked air.· Betty was sitting in the porch of the cottage peeling potatoes.· We are peeling potatoes, forming tiny meatballs, browning chicken, shelling peas.· They don't peel potatoes, chip them and then deep-fry them; they buy frozen oven chips instead.· It was with some trepidation that I slid a 5-pound chicken with peeled, quartered potatoes into the 500-degree oven.
· Brown under the grill. Serve with new potatoes and a tomato and onion salad.· Substitute sweet potatoes for russets the next time you serve baked potatoes with pork or chicken.· Grill the kebabs, turning frequently. Serve with a jacket potato and a green salad.· Garnish with wedges of lemon. Serve with new potatoes and a green salad.· Bake at 400°F, 200°C, Gas 6 for 20 mins. Serve with sauté potatoes, mange-tout and tomatoes.
· Peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes.· Drain and leave to cool. Slice the cooked potatoes and arrange in layers in an ovenproof dish.· Note: Chef Gilles Syglowski blanches the sliced potatoes for 1 minute in boiling water before using.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► something is small potatoes
1- Deep fry fish cakes and warm for 5 mins before serving with tomato sauce and lightly-boiled leeks and celery.
- From top, Smoked salmon rolls with pesto rice, Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake.
- I bet he had the fish cakes.
- In celebration of a new weight control year, the Quaker Oats Co. has developed yet another rice cake flavor.
- Lunch Rice cakes, low-fat cheese, tomatoes and onion, apple.
- My husband and the minister wives who come to the party do not care for the rice cake.
- She'd claim it was quite ordinary - fish cake s, only they went wrong - that sort of thing.
- Slide the potato cake from the pan on to a plate.
- Farmers near Girvan and Dunbar use these advantages to provide early potatoes for the large markets of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
- Plant garlic, shallots and Jerusalem artichokes as soon as possible, early potatoes about mid-month.
- The early potatoes were well up and looking very healthy, I was happy to see.
- But the meat and potatoes of the newscast is the gathering, preparing, and presentation of the news.
[countable, uncountable] a round white vegetable with a brown, red, or pale yellow skin, that grows under the groundroast/fried/boiled/mashed potatojacket potato (=cooked in its skin) Marie stood at the sink, peeling potatoes (=cutting off the skin).2[countable] a plant that produces potatoesCOLLOCATIONSverbspeel potatoes (=cut the skin off them)· Peel and slice the potatoes.slice potatoes (=cut them into long thin pieces)dice potatoes (=cut them into small square pieces)mash potatoes (=crush them until they are smooth, after boiling them)ADJECTIVES/NOUN + potatoboiled potatoes· Serve with plain boiled potatoes.mashed potato(es) (=boiled and crushed until smooth)· I like sausages with mashed potatoes.roast potatoes (=cooked in an oven with fat)· traditional roast beef with roast potatoesa baked/jacket potato (=cooked in its skin)· We cooked baked potatoes in the embers of the fire.