(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).
Pott
Definition:
(n.) A size of paper. See under Paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(2) The main causes are Potts Disease, arachnoiditis, tropical spastic paraplegia, trauma, lathyrism and cord compression.
(3) The authors report 14 cases of atypical forms of Pott's disease: 7 cases of centro-somatic forms 4 cases of sub-occipital Pott's disease, 2 cases of posterior arch and one case of sub-ligamentous vertebral tuberculosis.
(4) Pyknotic profiles are present in the ganglion cell layer during the first 2 postnatal weeks, reaching peak numbers during the first 4 postnatal days (corresponding to the time of greatest loss of ganglion cells and their axons: Potts et al., '82; Lam et al., '82; Perry et al., '83).
(5) The morphology of the lesions, sites involved, and age of the specimen are consistent with a diagnosis of tuberculous spondylitis (Pott's disease).
(6) Intrathoracic Pott's abscesses are principally observed in developing countries but they are not exceptional in France, and their varied semeiology deserves to be described.
(7) Potts declined to say whether Morrisons would spend more or less this year, but he said more significant cuts were on the way.
(8) The total mortality varied from 25% in the Waterston group to 42% in the Potts group.
(9) He received three weeks’ training; the only safety equipment he had was sunscreen,” Potts said.
(10) Daryl Davis, 20, Danyelle Davis, 24, Barry Potts, 20, George Walder, 20, and Jack Walder, 24, were charged on Monday after Reker Ahmed was attacked near a bus stop in Croydon.
(11) Potts said Morrisons could sell its own label foods via Amazon or through its tie-up with petrol station operator Motor Fuel Group.
(12) The results of the treatment of 89 consecutive cases of Pott's paraplegia admitted to care in Korea are reported.
(13) The results point towards a possibility of estimating past exposure to Stanton or Pott fiber fractions of airborne man-made mineral fibers, even though only RFOM were determined.
(14) The authors present a case of cervical Pott's disease with severe neurological impairment and with a favourable course with medical and surgical treatment.
(15) More than 20 years after palliation, one of 15 patients were alive with an original Blalock-Taussig shunt and 9 of 22 with a Potts anastomosis.
(16) The Kantar figures will be a boost for the new chief executive, David Potts, who is on a mission to improve sales and profits after taking over in March.
(17) The Getty announced this spring that it had bought the picture, one of its first major acquisitions since appointing a new director, Tim Potts, who left the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge last year.
(18) The vacuum-disc phenomenon is of great diagnostic value as it is usually found in relation to degenerated discs and permits orientation of diagnosis towards classical arthrosis or Pott's pseudo-arthrosis when atypical radiological images are seen.
(19) Paul Potts, the mobile-phone salesman who won the first series of Britain's Got Talent and went on to become a global opera star, was her inspiration.
(20) She is the first gay companion to the Time Lord, though Moffat recently condemned the fuss that had been made over Potts’s sexuality.