(n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.
(n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
(n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
(n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
(n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
(n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
(n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.
(n.) A size of paper. See Pott.
(v. t.) To place or inclose in pots
(v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.
(v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
(v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
(v. t.) To pocket.
(v. i.) To tipple; to drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(2) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(3) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(4) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(5) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(6) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(7) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(8) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(9) [IAAF officials] are quite happy to sit in Monaco on a huge pot of money but when it comes to investing in the sport it’s not happening.
(10) Even if it were true that the rich are hard working, this wouldn't distinguish them from most people who lack the proverbial pot to micturate in.
(11) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(12) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
(13) If you do find they are all legs and nothing else, when you pot them on, drop them.
(14) Known as the melting pot of the south, Marseille is home to a large proportion – possibly up to a fifth – of France's total Roma population, itself estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000.
(15) If you are on holiday in the local area please come along and have a look, buy a garden bench or a potted plant.
(16) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
(17) In screening exercises the Pot IgM failed to bind a wide variety of peptides.
(18) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(19) Potted profile Born: 19 June 1945 Age: 66 Career: Campaigner for democracy and human rights High point: Release from house arrest in November 2010 and successive subsequent releases of Burmese political prisoners Low point: Separation from and eventual death of her husband from cancer in 1999 What she says: "It is not power that corrupts but fear.
(20) In this report, a new HLA-B locus antigen is described (tentatively called POT).
Potentiometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.
Example Sentences:
(1) The system involves computer analysis and graphic display of vectors created from rotational and linear potentiometers that are activated by listeners using a hand-held pointer as they track an acoustic event.
(2) Potentiometer settings offer variations in dosing schedules, distribution volumes as well as in absorption and elimination rate constants.
(3) By manipulation of two simple potentiometer controls, any temperature gradient between 0 and 50 C could be obtained.
(4) The lower strip (D, displacement of the handle) was moved in proportion to angular displacement of the handle by a potentiometer coupled to the handle axis.
(5) Subjects were asked to compensate this geometrical distortion by adjusting a potentiometer.
(6) The instrument is designed to adjust to trunk movement that might occur in the sagittal and coronal planes while transmitting the torque that results from rotation in the horizontal plane directly to the active potentiometer of the electrogoniometer.
(7) When there is a modification in frequency at the onset of the placing reaction relative to activity during the unloading reaction, the beginning of this change occurs after the onset of the movement as recorded by a potentiometer placed at the elbow joint.
(8) We present the design of an instrumentation biopotential amplifier that, (a) combines the ac coupling and high input impedance of an ac-coupled buffer with the CMRR of a simple differential amplifier or a monolithic instrumentation amplifier, (b) improves the CMRR by using a potentiometer without requiring either precision resistors or high-CMRR op amps, (c) illustrates how to calculate the CMRR for differential-input stages for either differential output or single-ended output.
(9) The device used to apply electrical current to the heart was constructed using a 9-volt battery, a push-button switch, and a 100-ohm potentiometer with calibrated dial.
(10) twisting of the forearms were transduced linearly by foam-cushioned clamps at the wrists and a potentiometer into a direct current of 0-2,7 V, respectively.
(11) The series resistance value, obtained very quickly by the method described, may be used in setting the compensation potentiometer to offset this resistance in voltage-clamp measurements.
(12) The course of the titration is followed potentiometrically with a glass and calomel electrode coupled and recorded automatically with a suitable registration potentiometer.
(13) Specifically, potentiometers and Hall effect sensors, capacitive force transducers, inductive displacement transducers (LVDTs), and various position resolvers are discussed.
(14) A potentiometer strapped to the knee recorded the angle of the joint, the output signal being displayed on an oscilloscope.
(15) By recording the rotation of the hinges using potentiometers, the position of the end-point of the palpator can be calculated.
(16) The translational scanning action is sensed by a position potentiometer and combines with the ultrasonic B-mode echoes to produce a cross-sectional image of the wall.
(17) By installing the two potentiometers on the pantographic arm and electrical switches, the position of the test target and the setting of the four levers which defines the size and the brightness of the test target were transferred directly to the computer.
(18) It includes a probe pack, a measuring pack and an automatic potentiometer.
(19) Continuous recording of excursion related to joint motion was obtained using a rotary potentiometer and an electrogoniometer.
(20) Two rating scales, a seven-stepped non-verbal scale on a Pain-Track logger, and a 100-mm VAS on a potentiometer, were found valid for continuous recording of itch.