(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).
Wot
Definition:
(imp.) of Weet
(pres. sing.) of Wit
() 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour's wooing of the tabloids for the past decade and a half was born out of a misguided belief that it really was the Sun "wot won it" for John Major in 1992.
(2) In 2004, Wiley made this explicit in his single Wot U Call It , mocking the record shops, punters and media confused as to where to place him among house, garage, "urban" and grime.
(3) Only a month later, The Sun carried its light bulb lampoon of Kinnock and, when Labour lost the election, crowed: "It was The Sun wot won it."
(4) As the former News Corp executive put it: “As newspaper endorsements become less and less important, this is one way for him to maintain a high political profile.” That trend remains visible in the UK, where Murdoch pushed the power of newspaper endorsements to the limit with the Sun’s famous 1992 front page on the day after the Conservative party’s general election victory: “It’s the Sun Wot Won It” .
(5) But if there is a lasting impression that "It was the Sun wot spun it" then the party may have helped inoculate itself against future attacks.
(6) In the group of 232 inhabitants of the protective zone of Nowa Huta the Steel-Mill (181 women and 51 men) incidence of overweight and obesity was estimated using the Quetelet and Wot indices.
(7) If the group of obese persons was formed on the basis of Wot anthropometric index (which included skinfolds thickness, present body mass and height), significantly lower values of VC and FEV1 were found in comparison to non-obese counterparts.
(8) With the wisdom of hindsight, it is plain to see that despite our support among younger voters, it was the older voters wot won it.
(9) In the end it was not the Sun wot won it but Clegg wot clinched it for Cameron.
(10) id agree that its my 1st film 2 star a pigeon in a prominint role if thats wot u mean lol What was the pigeon supposed to represent?
(11) wots up with that lol You're known for keeping any details about your forthcoming cinematic projects tightly under wraps.
(12) But former deputy prime minister John Prescott said via Twitter: "It will be the Son, Daughter, Uncle, Mother and Friend Wot Win it in 2010.
(13) sportingintelligence (@sportingintel) #mufc sources say successor announcement "soon", and "he'll be cut from same cloth as Ferguson and Busby, and believe in youth development" May 8, 2013 10.36am BST Here's a video wot we made earlier.
(14) The equation of multiple regression used for this purpose takes into account the dependence of spirometric values on age and Wot index.
(15) The pair met in John Major's HQ campaign team in 1992, bright young men with an eye to the main chance, who shared some of the credit when Major came from behind to beat Labour and seed the fateful myth that "It was the Sun Wot Won It".
(16) Had the anti-Common Market side won, it would have been the left wot won it .
(17) Its famous 1992 headline: "It's the Sun wot won it", boasted that the surprise Conservative general election victory was down to its campaign against then Labour leader Neil Kinnock.
(18) This division was based on two indices: W--including height, present body mass and age, Wot--including height, present body mass and skin-folds thickness.
(19) It's quite a bold move, but it will be able to say it was the Standard wot won it."
(20) question, but after Danny Braverman's simple, delicious storytelling show Wot?