What's the difference between pot and tipple?

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).

Tipple


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To drink spirituous or strong liquors habitually; to indulge in the frequent and improper used of spirituous liquors; especially, to drink frequently in small quantities, but without absolute drunkeness.
  • (v. t.) To drink, as strong liquors, frequently or in excess.
  • (v. t.) To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.
  • (n.) Liquor taken in tippling; drink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Everyone knows that Father Christmas’s tipple of choice is brandy, so Santa, if you’re reading this, we recommend you pause in The Flask on Highgate West Hill for a quick snifter.
  • (2) They’re cracking open the baijiu ,” said John Delury, a China expert from Yonsei University in Seoul, referring to China’s throat-scorching national tipple.
  • (3) Since Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from middle ear effusions of neonates with natally acquired chlamydial infection (Tipple et al., 1979), there have been several studies to detect chlamydia in older children with chronic secretory otitis media, mainly by tissue culture.
  • (4) The taoiseach promised that he would open it up and enjoy a tipple on the day Ireland exited the IMF-EU bailout .
  • (5) The British gin industry had a record-breaking year in 2015 after 49 new distilleries opened their doors and and consumers spent nearly £1bn on their favourite tipple.
  • (6) A study earlier this year on the wine ingredient resveratrol now suggests the tipple may not hold the secret of why countries such as France have such a low incidence of heart disease.
  • (7) Mocotó is also a cachaçaria , selling more than 500 cachaças – a tipple often associated with poor people and drunks – from all over the country.
  • (8) Good news, obviously, but isn't Baileys a bit of a, well, girls' tipple?
  • (9) Describing the whisky duty freeze as Osborne's "referendum tipple," Swinney said: "The £63m added to the Scottish budget today is small beer compared to the significant cuts Scotland has faced since 2010.
  • (10) The trend has been attributed to factors including pub prices comparing unfavourably with the cost of alcohol in supermarkets and changing cultural habits, with more people entertaining and sharing a tipple at home.
  • (11) Photograph: PR The forward galley’s catering facilities have wine glasses for an in-flight tipple while the bathroom includes a shower and a vacuum lavatory.
  • (12) On the day his death was announced, Hardee's friends and family converged on the Wibbly Wobbly to pour a measure of his favourite tipple, rum and Coke, into the river where he felt so at home.
  • (13) Order a flight of pisco (from £3.45) or a round of pisco sours (from £3.25 each) and decide for yourself which country’s tipple tickles your fancy.
  • (14) My tipple was mostly white wine, and I probably drank, on average, a bottle a night – more at the weekends.
  • (15) Basque wine or cider are the classic tipples, but Atari also mixes killer gin and tonics.
  • (16) But after word spread about her sake venture, Sasaki quickly found herself running out of stock as old neighbours and new customers indulged their love of her cloudy, slightly fizzy tipple.
  • (17) Californian online retailer Wines that Rock, responsible for the Rolling Stones' Forty Licks Merlot and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Cabernet Sauvignon, has collaborated with a Bordeaux vineyard to develop a tipple giving a nod to the clarets favoured by the English aristocracy in the Edwardian era.
  • (18) "No regrets," she asserts haughtily, knocking back a glass of rakija , the local tipple.
  • (19) But you might want to try another tipple after hearing the case of a 47-year-old woman, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), who developed brittle bones and lost all of her teeth after drinking too much tea .
  • (20) It was the working man’s tipple and in the early 20th century there were more than 1,000 pulquerías in Mexico City.

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