What's the difference between pot and schooner?

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).

Schooner


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • (n.) A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With eyes like big schooners of sherry he looks like a loveable alien you might like to befriend and take home."
  • (2) In the novel, the count comes ashore when a Russian schooner, the Demeter, runs aground, all hands lost.
  • (3) On that occasion your condition and demeanour, the result of your drinking, so shocked some of the audience nearest the platform that they left in shame and disgust ... Tony Abbott Tony Abbott’s 2015 antics included shirtless post-coup partying, and chugging schooners with students in Sydney pubs.
  • (4) Which are served in two-thirds of a pint schooners (from £3.80).
  • (5) Heptachlor residues in winter crops were highest in Saia oats > Berseem clover > Haifa clover > Cassia oats > Tetila ryegrass > Schooner barley > Shaftal clover > Hunter river lucerne at the grazing stage.
  • (6) Argentina's president launched an attack on British colonialism, claiming the islands were "forcibly stripped" from Argentina 180 years ago (the incident in 1833 boiled down to a standoff between two ships, one bigger than the other, and as the Argentinian schooner was manned by a large number of British mercenaries, it decided to back off.
  • (7) When I was very little I saw it as an 18th-century schooner.
  • (8) Maybe it’s the warmth of the directors, all in their 30s: Al Parra, ever ready with schooners of tea; Arnaud Nichols, always enthusing about some engineering project; and Alex Motta, whose cheap gourmet canteen feeds mezze to the local forklift drivers.
  • (9) There is no doubt that a schooner from the Dutch city of Vlaardingen brought the cholera to Bergen.
  • (10) He bought a schooner in Malta and sailed it across the Atlantic, through the canal up to San Francisco, then across the Pacific, regretfully having to part with it 'for financial reasons'.
  • (11) During the six-week voyage our antiquated German schooner, the Stahlratte or "Steel Rat", had been continually battered by force nine gales and even seasoned crew members had been violently sick.
  • (12) The expedition’s schooner, the Fram, built to withstand the crush of ice on the planned drift across the Polar Sea, was by 19 November secured fast in the sea ice as the long nights closed in.
  • (13) And the level of co-payment we’re suggesting is equivalent to a hamburger and fries, or a schooner of beer; I mean it’s not a great deal, and if we’re talking about say up to $50, $60, $70 a year max for people on low incomes, is that unreasonable?” Wong said she believed most Australians accessed health care only when they needed it and the government should not create a disincentive for visiting a GP.

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