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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pot1 /pɑt/USA pronunciation n., v., pot•ted, pot•ting. n. [countable] - a container made of baked clay, metal, etc., used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
- such a container with its contents:a pot of stew.
- flowerpot.
- a container of liquor or other drink:a pot of ale.
- chamber pot.
- Slang Terms a large sum of money:[usually singular]He inherited quite a pot when she died.
- all the money bet at a single time;
pool:He put all his winnings in the pot for one last game. - Slang Termspotbelly:He'd developed quite a pot drinking all that beer.
v. - to put or transplant into a pot:[~ + object]to pot a plant.
Idioms- Idioms go to pot, [no object] to become ruined;
get worse;
deteriorate:The whole city seems to be going to pot.
pot•ful, n. [countable], pl. -fuls. pot2 /pɑt/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Drugs, Slang Terms[Slang.]marijuana.
-pot-, root. - -pot- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "power;
ability.'' This meaning is found in such words as: impotence, impotent, omnipotent, plenipotentiary, potency, potent, potential.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pot1 (pot),USA pronunciation n., v., pot•ted, pot•ting. n. - a container of earthenware, metal, etc., usually round and deep and having a handle or handles and often a lid, used for cooking, serving, and other purposes.
- such a container with its contents:a pot of stew.
- the amount contained in or held by a pot;
potful. - a flowerpot.
- a container of liquor or other drink:a pot of ale.
- liquor or other drink.
- Botanya cagelike vessel for trapping fish, lobsters, eels, etc., typically made of wood, wicker, or wire. Cf. lobster pot.
- a chamber pot.
- Metallurgy
- a vessel for melting metal;
melting pot. - an electrolytic cell for reducing certain metals, as aluminum, from fused salts.
- British Terms
- See chimney pot.
- [Dial.]a basket or box used for carrying provisions or the like;
a pannier.
- Slang Termsa large sum of money.
- all the money bet at a single time;
pool. - British Terms(in horse racing) the favorite.
- See potshot.
- Weights and Measuresa liquid measure, usually equal to a pint or quart.
- [Armor.]
- an open, broad-brimmed helmet of the 17th century.
- any open helmet.
- Slang Termsa potbelly.
- Idioms go to pot, to become ruined;
deteriorate:With no one to care for it, the lovely old garden went to pot. - Idioms sweeten the pot. See sweeten (def. 8).
v.t. - to put into a pot.
- to preserve (food) in a pot.
- to cook in a pot.
- to transplant into a pot:We must pot the petunias.
- Sport[Hunting.]
- to shoot (game birds) on the ground or water, or (game animals) at rest, instead of in flight or running:He can't even pot a sitting duck.
- to shoot for food, not for sport.
- Informal Termsto capture, secure, or win.
v.i. - Informal Termsto take a potshot;
shoot.
- 1150–1200; Middle English pott (see potter1); cognate with Dutch, Low German pot (perh. French pot)
- Drugs, Slang Termsmarijuana.
- said to be a shortening of Mexican Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya, apparently contraction of potación de guaya wine or brandy in which marijuana buds have been steeped (literally, drink of grief ) 1935–40, American.
- Scottish Termsa deep hole;
pit.
- 1325–75; Middle English; perh. identical with pot1
- Electricitypotential.
- Electricitypotentiometer.
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