What's the difference between pot and pow?

Pot


Definition:

  • (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).

Pow


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He best be careful out there, because one of these days, POW, RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
  • (2) Nevertheless, persistent psychiatric sequelae (especially psychoneurosis but also schizophrenia) are the more notable and pervasive for both Pacific World War II POW's and Korean War POW's as seen not only in elevated hospital admission rates but also in VA disability awards and in symptoms reported on the cornell Medical Index Health Questionnaire.
  • (3) Examined are a variety of clinical issues in the diagnosis and treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) of former prisoners of war (POWs).
  • (4) Ten drug-free former American prisoners of war (POWs), captured on Bataan and Corregidor by the Japanese in World War II, participated in a study of the relationship between structural brain abnormalities on computerized axial tomographic (CT) scans and sleep electroencephalographic (EEG) findings.
  • (5) Malarial transmission was, however, intense in both groups, though more so in POW.
  • (6) All sera were negative for antibodies to POW virus.
  • (7) The study finds that depressive symptomatology, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, is elevated in World War II POWs from the Pacific and European theaters and in Korean conflict POWs.
  • (8) Later that day, my father lost all memory of his time as a PoW.
  • (9) Satisfactory estimates of pesticides' fish toxicity are obtained from log POW-dependent QSARs derived using chemicals of similar polarity and reactivity.
  • (10) As assistant bacteriologist and ex-POW he joined the British regimental hospital in Bangkok.
  • (11) But looking back it was a terrible thing to have happened.” Medical staff preserved the POWs’ corpses in formaldehyde for future use by students, but at the end of the war the remains were quickly cremated, as doctors attempted to hide evidence of their crimes.
  • (12) Although POW in fallers was significantly lower at the higher velocity in both joints, the decrease was most prominent in the ankles.
  • (13) However, the subscale fails to distinguish between Pacific and European POW veterans.
  • (14) There is even a carving on a trunk done by German POWs.
  • (15) A random sample of 170 surviving members of the captured Eighth Division of the Australian Army residing in Sydney in 1983 (POWs) was compared with a similar sample of 172 veterans who fought in Southeast Asia during the war but were not imprisoned (non-POWs).
  • (16) To examine the prevalence of long-term physical and emotional consequences of captivity in this population, the authors analyzed medical and psychiatric examination data for 426 former POWs.
  • (17) POWs had more duodenal ulcers than controls but otherwise their physical health was similar, as was their age-adjusted mortality in the post-war years.
  • (18) Dorsiflexion POW production in fallers was the most affected of all the motions (7.5 times less than the control value).
  • (19) On the afternoon of 15 August, hours after the emperor had announced Japan’s surrender, more than a dozen other American POWs held in Fukuoka camps were taken to a mountainside execution site and beheaded.
  • (20) In addition to problems with cognitive deficits and complaints of bodily discomfort, most common among POW survivors were symptoms of suspiciousness, apprehension, confusion, isolation, detachment, and hostility.

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